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USB Safely Remove - free 1-year licenses until Dec. 5

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Submitted by Bahamut on November 30, 2008 - 6:08pm

For anyone who's interested, they're giving away 1-year licenses.
http://safelyremove.com/giveawayweekp.htm

In the email I got with the license key, I also got a code for 50% off a lifetime license.

I know it stores preferences in %appdata%, so it's not portable, but I think the CLI app usr.exe can be used portably.

What's the minimum read and write speed requirements, to run portable software?

Submitted by userq on November 30, 2008 - 8:27am

First sorry for my bad english.

My question is:
what should be the read and write speed of a usb stick, which will allow software to be runned from it?

And if it's different for every program, which is the best (optimal) read/write speed who will allow most programs to run?

Thanks!

portable apps become part of my life

Submitted by rafi on November 26, 2008 - 6:43pm

hi guys, its now soon one yeah i use PA

Its on a truecrypted partition on external hdd and works very well. I like to use my environment everywere (where i have admin rights for Truecrypt), and its less offensive and less work then make a linux boot from usb-stick on anothers pc.

go on devs its great work.

I hope OOo3 and TB3 will be implemented soon Biggrin

Create your own portable (u3p) cad (dwg/fxp) viewer

Submitted by alkoid on November 26, 2008 - 5:26pm

Hello all,

After a very annoying day of searching for a portable CAD viewer I decided to create my own. The following are simple instructions on how to create the u3p file yourself since I have no site to host it on.

First download the LiteCAD zipfile from www.litecad.com.
Unzip the file into a directory and move the lcfont executable to the end of the directory

we are going to use packagefactory to create the u3p file and it will just grab the first executable in the directory for the u3p file

Download packagefactory from www.softpedia.com

Install it and run it.

Extract U3 apps to use on usb drive

Submitted by lpoteetguy on November 26, 2008 - 12:58pm

I wanted to use a couple of the U3 porable progams on my non U3 Smartdrive USB. I figured out a way to to it.

1. Download a U3 app from the SanDisk website.
2. Right click on the app an open it with WinRar.
3. WinRar will give you an error. Ignore it and you should still be able to view the files inside the U3 exe.
4. Now click on "Convert to SFX". You can use the default options and click on.
5. It will convert the U3 exe and the icon may change to a WinRar exe file.
6. Now right click the exe and extract the files.

IRC trouble

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Submitted by powerjuce on November 26, 2008 - 10:27am

As some of yyou may know we had a spammer come onto our channel last night on IRC and started well… spamming it. We quickly found out that this spammer also had an anonymizer so we could not ban him or even track which person it was when they entered into the channel. After 2-4 hours of work we finally got a solution that worked and were managed to bring the channel under control. Right now I want to point out some people that helped out a lot and that we should thank for of the help they gave.

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