General Discussion

Hey, it's me, Bruce. I'm back after being MIA from the forums for quite a while. What have I missed while I've been working on my game?

Oh, and I seriously wish there were a way to mark all these old posts as read without having to actually read them. The "100 new posts" thing is annoying, and it won't go away unless I at least load said posts.

Hi
I use a Sandisk Cruzer Titanium 2GB and one of the main application I have is Firefox Portable. I noticed that by default the Portable version has "History" and "Cache" set at 0 to reduce the number of writes to the flash drive and hence boost its life. However on one of the machines I use this seems to make Firefox noticeably more sluggish.
I also read today about a new Samsung laptop that uses 32GB of NAND Flash instead of a hard drive. They claim the life of the flash will be about the same as a hard drive. There was also a comment in the article that modern flash memory has a much better number of read/writes before failure. So to improve performance I've allowed my Portable Firefox to have a 7 day history and 20MB of cache.

OK, here goes. I'm trying to make a Portable Apps Search Plugin for Firefox (this could be an excercise in futility, but I seem to do that for a living anyway :D), it seems I need a little more info:

1. John, do I need permission for this? (copyright/tradmark issue probs etc.)

and 2. Does Drupal use a different search syntax or something? I can't seem to figure it out. I'm looking for something like this: input name="qt" user="", where 'qt' would be the search sytax. Anybody have any advice?

Thanks All

Ashes

How about making development apps portable? Things like a C/C++ compiler, Fortran95 compiler, Java, PHP, Perl, Python, a debugger and all that?

I have a local copy of OOo. I want my files to be truly portable to any host computer.

Do I understand correctly that I need a thumbdrive copy of OOo? Save my local files to it? How do I
synch ongoing files? Goodsynch or other software?
Thanks for any help,
Donna in AR

Just curious, when is Portable 7-Zip coming out? I read somewhere here that it is being worked on.

I have been trying for a couple of days to download PStart, but their server has been down. Is this just a glitch or is it no longer available. Does anyone know of an alternative download site?

Thanks,

Chad

Hi Portable Appsters

We have just released a new free Portable App called Yadabyte Dictionary. Its ideal for when you need a fast and comprehensive dictionary but dont have access to a web based service.

Features:

• Comprehensive: More definitions and synonyms than any other available dictionary. These all stem from an awesome 145,000 + definitions.
• Super Useful: Dictionary definitions, thesaurus and usage all in one application.
• Incredibly small file size: thanks to our bespoke text compression techniques. With Yadabyte Dictionary we have compressed nearly 24 megabytes of information into a mere 5 megabytes. So there is no excuse not to have it on any thumbdrive.

I want to make pyscripter(http://mmm-experts.com/Products.aspx?ProductId=4) portable with python(http://www.python.org)
but I did not find a tut on making a app which save config in c:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\ portable. Is there anybody kind enough to tell me how to by a *real* example?
thank you.

I'm on a Mac at the moment, so I can't test this myself, but it just occurred to me...

As far as I know, every .exe launched in WinXP (and later) will result in a corresponding entry in the WINDOWS\Prefetch folder. This file will certainly indicate the date & time the .exe was active, and presumably has some encoded information regarding the .exe itself - its location on disk, and which disk, is probably stored but may not be readily legible to the human eye.

My point is this: Many people here go to great lengths to point out that some apps (notably TrueCrypt) are not "Truly portable", because they leave some traces. Also people seem keen to have security-related apps, sometimes including unerase tools, secure deletion tools and apps to clean up traces of their activity on the host PC.