General Discussion

I read recently in the Request Apps forum of two firewalls you can run from your USB drive (ghostwall and AS3 Personal Firewall). I was wondering if anyone could tell me how these work? What, if anything, needs to be done to configure these apps to run from your USB. At home I have firewalls (software and hardware) on both my computers, but in the event I bring my external drive to surf with Portable Firefox while travelling, I would like to be able to quickly start a firewall while I surf and then stop when I'm done. I encourage all my friends and family to use firewalls, but some just don't want to use them, hence my interest in these portable firewalls.

I saw that you are going to make a suite update after you release PortableThunderbird 1.5. Will you be releasing some new apps as well? (Like PortableKMeleon and/or PortableGIMP)

-Justin

any portable weather programs available?

Lads, just stumbled (again) acros the portable version off KDE Pim suite (http://www.pi-sync.net/) wich has a portable version wich should run from an USB stick. (http://www.pi-sync.net/html/download.html) does anybody have recomendatiosn regarding other PIM software? Or user experience with this suite?

I'll be happy to read about it.

Bas

Lads, just want to share this, just curious to check if the Pstart would work within a linux session I started it with wine. Must say I am impressed with it, it just works out off the box (usb stick) and even the other app wich are on the stick are running from the Pstart app. Superb!!

So probably you could use it on more systems, not only windows but also some linux boxes.

Even the pstart button is in place. Fabulous. I must admit that I am flabbergasted.

Bas

are there any special considerations for CDRW? I saw somewhere that they should be in packet mode, what is this?

Does anyone know of a good spyware/adware free portable p2p client? i have tried i couple but the installs annoy me.

Just wondering, does anyone have a list of or any knowledge of flash drives that include a write-protect tab?

I carry mine round everywhere at the moment but I'm aware that some of the machines I might visit don't have up to date AV / Malware protection... so I'd be happier if I could write-protect my flash drive.

I currently carry a 1Gb drive, so I'd be looking for something around that capacity.

Crucial Gizmo 1Gb flash drive do NOT have a write-protect tab.

Just wondered will UPX compressed files execute or response slower than the original file? My portable is a hard disk, not a flash drive, so I have plenty space to waste.

Any suggestions for a fully-functional portable calculator? I'm looking for one like Excalibur (with the same, or better range of functions). I was devastated when I found out that it wasn't portable.

Any suggestions would be appreciated.