General Discussion

Since many of us don't know what is on the computers that we plug our drives into, it is good to know what kind of exploits are out there. Most of you have probably heard of the recent WMF vulnerability. Some of you may know that Microsoft only patched all OSs after Windows 2000. Even less of you know that the vulnerability was a backdoor created by Microsoft. Don't believe me? It was discovered by Steve Gibson, a known security pro. I have a story on it at my blog, with a link to the transcript of the "Security Now" podcast where Mr. Gibson broke the news.

http://tech-ramblings.blogspot.com

On your mozdev pages you say you r moving in. Is this still true?

Sorry about announcing here Portable Firefox OS X and Portable Thunderbird OS X, but as Mac OS X old user, I've noticed that OS X apps were missing.
My volunteer effort is to fill this gap.
I hope that an OS X section could be open here and/or that we can collaborate to have all other OS X portable apps missing.

Thanks, G.

Just noticed that noone have said anything about Audacity being portable...
so I looked it up.. and even on their web site thay had a link to a zip file
for the users who cant install software on their computers for any reasons.
Just unzipp and run.
Enjoy!
http://audacity.sourceforge.net/beta/audacity-win-zip/audacity-win-1.3.0...

Does anyone know if they compressed it using 7-Zip and UPX? It is a good broswer, but it is quite large at around 22MB.

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P.S.- John, they used your launcher. (Slightly modified)

-Justin

Ceedo Personal v1.1 Build 4.0.4174.1 was touted at CES 2006 as a major blow to the U3 platform as well as open-source apps. The software acts as a buffer between the application and the OS, saving everything to its own registry. At Lexar's CES booth, they had Picasa running straight from the flash drive. It is available for download at www.ceedo.com.

Does anyone have any experience with using Ceedo ? What are the Pros vs. Cons of the Ceedo platform ? How does it compare to U3 and/or PortableApps ?

It seems to me a great deal of USB-connected disk space would be required to run ones favorite Windows programs. Also at what speed do the apps. run at etc. ?

hi
i want to use openoffice and firefox portable on different computers..but i don't want they save any kind of temporary files on those computers like Writer temp file (like MS Office does) or Calc or cookies from firefox or history or bookmarks or cache etc...
do you know if they don't write any kind of these files on the computer hard disk?
thanks
regards

Well.. I've read some post regarding issues such as if a thumdrive can occupy all these apps and if my thumdrive can last longer.

I'm also thinking about this issue.

Notebook HDD (in portable case)
- 40 GB
- Small but of course a lot bigger than a thumbdrive.
- Long lifetime span.
- Can hold a lot of read-write activities.
- No headache thinking that my thumbdrive is getting hotter.
- $80 (RM300 well, I'm a Malaysian)

Thumbdrive.
- 1 GB
- Can be attached to your keyring (and I have lost mine once )
- Long but not so long lifetime...
- Can also hold a lot of read-write act but far below a HDD.

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