General Discussion

Howdy,

On my computer at work, I do not have administrator rights, and the IT department still only allows Internet Explorer 7.

So I've downloaded every portable web browser I can find, and I'm going through the process of benchmarking them all using Peacekeeper at http://service.futuremark.com/peacekeeper

The following are the browsers I've found that don't get caught up in the IT department's security policies. I'll be benchmarking them all:

IE7
K-Meleon
Seamonkey 1.1.18
Seamonkey 2.0 beta
Opera
QTWeb
SRWare Iron
Lunascape
Safari 3.2.2
Safari 4.0 beta

I have installed Eclipse and XAMPP on my portable apps drive. I have Eclipse draw from a JDK in its folder, as suggested in this forum.

Anyway, I can't seem to get JDBC working with Eclipse. I have both the Apache and mySQL servers/services running, but Eclipse says that it can't establish a connection because it can't load the Driver.

Does anyone know what I can do to fix it? I don't want to install of this on my personal computer, I want to have it portable.

Thanks in advance.

I want to hear (or read) your thoughts on which games you want to see portable. I've compiled a list of my favorites but I want to know which ones I should make first. If you have a suggestion, feel free to post that too.

Counter-Strike 1.6

Cube

Doom

Halo Combat Evolved: Custom Edition

Serious Sam

I'm pretty sure all are open source but if one isn't please politely tell me its not.

When I try to open an Open Office application, this error message occurs and the application doesn't open:

The application cannot be started.
The user interface language cannot be determined.

What could I do?

Nice greetings, Dirk

Movienizer is a movie catalog that can find and collect information about movies. This programm can find information about a particular movie, an actor, actress, director, screenplay writer, download photos and DVD cover. Movienizer supports a number of different online movie databases.

License: Freeware

Website: http://www.movienizer.com

Features:

* Create an interactive movie catalog the way you like it.

* Find information about a particular movie, download DVD cover.

* Find information about an actor, actress, director, screenplay writer, download photos.

Well, I've been doing some serious thinking about portable apps lately... especially since I'm on a machine without admin rights. I have several questions that (hopefully) will be answered by someone with certain legal knowledge of their answer - if someone gives me the wrong answer, I might end up in trouble (which would really stink, since I like staying on the right side of things.... :P)

Do you use portable apps, not just on your Flash drive/external media but on your desktop computer also?

If so, are there are installed applications that you cannot live without, or haven't found a suitable portable alternative for?

I use very few installed applications on my desktop PC these days as there is a portable alternative for just about everything I do. I also feel good about not having to rely on expensive, commercial software to fulfill my needs.

Hi,

I was wondering about the apps on [link removed by mod Tim] a lot of them seem to be software that costs money (dreamweaver, etc) and I was wondering if they are legal. I dont think they are...are they?

Thanks for all replies!!!!

When I double click a file downloaded here to open a portalbe application a window opens asking for the language and then after clicking "OK" a second window says something like "...will assist you...through the installation...".

Does that mean there will be installed / copied / written anything to the registry or to somewhere else, what will stay on the PC (besides of a single folder with will contain the files of the application)?

Hi everyone. I have a question: I've installed NetBeans portable in my flash drive. The executable file is in "K:\PortableApps\netbeans\bin" and I don't know how to configure to see the netbeans.exe in the portableApps menu. If the .exe is in "K:\PortableApps\netbeans" I can see the netbeans icon but when I execute it, it fails. How can I do to put the path on \netbeans\bin instead of \netbeans?
I hope you can help me! I need it!!