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NOTICE: Scheduled Downtime: April 28 @10AM NY/EDT Time

John T. Haller's picture
Submitted by John T. Haller on April 27, 2009 - 10:44pm

We will be performing some scheduled maintenance to the site at 10AM EDT time (New York time) tomorrow. This maintenance will help the site run better and continue to grow and serve our millions of users. During this time, a simple status page will show stating that we'll be right back and have links to our downloads from SourceForge.net which will continue to work during the maintenance window. The maintenance should last about an hour but could run longer.

Thank you for your understanding and patience!

Best,
John

Newsletter?

Submitted by BradleyD on April 27, 2009 - 6:52pm

Is there actually a newsletter being published, or am I just not getting it for some reason? I've had this account with my gmail account for about a month, and I signed up for the newsletter using my ISP email at least a month before that, but I've never received a newsletter. When I click on the "newsletter" link at the top right of the screen, there is a link for previous editions, but that only shows the first one. Am I missing something? When did the last issue get published? Maybe you should automatically send the most recent edition to new subscribers. Thank you.

Need Help With Installer!

Pyromaniac's picture
Submitted by Pyromaniac on April 26, 2009 - 7:45pm

I'm a rookie with all things C++ and have almost no idea what I'm doing but I was experimenting on making RocketDock portable (a launcher) but I don't know what i'm doing wrong. The C++ online tutorials did nothing to help. What am I doing wrong?

MakeNSIS v2.44 - Copyright 1995-2009 Contributors
See the file COPYING for license details.
Credits can be found in the Users Manual.

Processing config: 
Processing plugin dlls: "E:\PROGRAM FILES\NSISPortable\App\NSIS\Plugins\*.dll"
 - AdvSplash::show
 - Banner::destroy
 - Banner::getWindow
 - Banner::show
 - BgImage::AddImage

Can't edit profile

Submitted by Bruce Pascoe on April 25, 2009 - 12:25am

I just went to change my user picture for the forums, but it won't let me. When I go to submit the new settings on the Edit Account page, it errors out to tell me my email address is already registered. If I completely clear the email address field and try again, it tells me I have to enter a valid email address. Bit of a catch-22 here and I don't remember having this problem before...

Hyper links

Submitted by Rapscallion on April 23, 2009 - 7:00pm

Would it be possible to change all external hyperlinks in the forums to open a new tab/window. It is slightly frustrating when i forget to hold control when clicking on a link and then need to go back again. If I'm being overly picky, sorry Smile

BTW - I really appreciate all the hard work that everyone has put into making the PA platform/apps a success. I would be lost without it.

deleted port Tbird account and lost all folders

Submitted by mil823 on April 23, 2009 - 4:21pm

In my never ending quest to be a computer idiot, for the second time I have prematurely deleted an email account and all the folders are gone. Is there anyway to recover them as there were several saved emails with travel information on some upcoming business trips. Can someone same my butt???? I'm thanking you in advance!!!

Need clarification on legality of apps. eg Google Chrome

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Submitted by Mickeyj4j on April 22, 2009 - 10:39pm

This topic is to answer the question of what apps are legal and what aren't allowed it is primarily for the PA Mods, but not exclusive.

I feel there is a need for clarification on legality of apps. Here is why?

Google Chrome Portable 2.0.162.0 https://portableapps.com/node/18051. There is a question posted there stating is the app legal.

In this request for Google Chrome Browser https://portableapps.com/node/17050 it was mentioned that Google Chrome cant be hosted here but Chromium can.

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