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Affiliates script (like Sfx)(sorta)

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Submitted by Ryan McCue on February 1, 2006 - 4:16am

Ok I am currently in the 'beta' stage of testing a perl script on my server that will have features similar (read SIMILAR) to Sfx
How much interest would I get?
The way it will work is you will get an id then you will use
http://cubegames.hostrocket.com/cgi-bin/x.cgi?dl=2
if 2 is your id and
http://cubegames.hostrocket.com/cgi-bin/x.cgi?num=2
to view your stats
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R McCue

press inquiry - 01 Informatique

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 1, 2006 - 3:31am

Hello,

I'm a french journalist writing an article about "portable desktop environment". If you're using a "portable desktop environment" - i.e. : development, desktop, professional apps, etc. - for your everyday job, and if you work in / for a french company, id'realy like to get in touch with you. Feel free to contact me until tomorrow.

-Fred

Portable OS

Submitted by guardianangel071 on January 31, 2006 - 9:18pm

I have a suggestion for a portable OS, has anyone ever played around With Damn Small Linux? it's also know as DSL and it can run entirly on a 64MB TD... just a suggestion...

Spread Firefox

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 31, 2006 - 4:15pm

Hi John,

Would it be possible to add some sort of "Portable" Firefox button on the "Spread" website? Your product is great and it would be nice to have the referals being attributed to your diligence and to allow "Us", the user base, to "Promote" your FANTASTIC applications. Thats just for "Firefox". You could take it a step further, with "WORK", and create your own "Referal" process.

Huge Software Suite

Submitted by Ashes for Tears on January 30, 2006 - 2:46pm

8) Check it out: Huge software suite of over (purportedly, didna bother to count Blum ) one hundred apps. Thing is though: 'bout 25% of the apps are in Italian, though I suppose you could hunt down language packs from the homepages of each app respectively. Another downside: Although the hybrid Pstart-like/Win98 Start Menu-clone is actually pretty nice, if a tad lacking in the looks department, it's all a mishmash of English and Italian. And, you can only get it from Download.com at the moment; the homepage website does not seem to have a download. Pardon

I'm posting my search instead of individual links so you can choose which suite you want, though personally, i went for Gold 8) Biggrin

Guestion

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 30, 2006 - 10:14am

I need to know if I can run these apps, on my schools computers they locked everything I cant even install anything that I would like too. So would these apps work if I have them on my portable hard drive?

Spybot Lite (portable)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 29, 2006 - 1:36pm

You can make Spybot portable simply by installing it to your C drive and then copying the files to your USB drive. I've been tinkering with it lately, trying to shrink it's 11.5MB size on my USB drive. If you're focusing on detection and removal as the functions used on your USB version of Spybot, here's a list of files that can be deleted to reduce it's size:

1. All non-English license, help, and language files - This doesn't save much space, but it's better than nothing.

2. All files in the Updates folder except 'downloaded.ini' - It appears that Spybot retains the zipped update files even after applying those updates. I saved about 2MB by deleting them. 'downloaded.ini' keeps a record of the updates you've already downloaded, so deleting this will cause Spybot to think you don't have the updates you already have. 'online.ini' will regenerate when you check for updates. (The Languages, Plugins, and Skins folders will also regenerate when you check for updates, if you've deleted them.)

Proposal: Improved interoperability of portable apps

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on January 28, 2006 - 6:36am

Dear all,

I've become quite an adict to the Portable Apps system, and at the moment they are the main manner in which I interface to the net. I often end up using PFF and PTB side by side, and one of the little things that irks me is the way that they don't actually work together at all - rather they are just two separate apps who don't really know anything about the other. The main problems arise when you are trying to pass info from one to the other eg via http:, mailto:, ftp: commands etc etc. For example, when I'm using PFF on a friends computer, clicking a mailto: tag results in their outlook booting (oops, sorry!), and similarly an http: tag in PTB results in IE booting.. Neither are really all that desirable.

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