General Discussion

I am having a very frustrating problem with Gmail and PTB, and was wondering if anyone might have some insights. I'll start with the usual preface to such postings: I've been using PTB through all the various versions to access my Gmail account via Pop3 since the start of september, and am now on PTB 1.5 RC1. It used to work fine, up until...

.. earlier this week, when I started getting "There is insufficient disk space to download all your email" errors. This is interesting, because I have about 60MB free on my USB stick. Checking via the web, the new email in my account adds up to be about 100kb or so. So, I did the suckers thing, and cleared out the USB stick, and Tb started downloaded everything that I had received since September (I have the "leave messages on the server" option box ticked.) I didn't think anything of it, deleted them all, and it went back to working normally for a few days. Since then, the problem has popped up a couple of times more, and although it can be solved in the same way, I'm getting right sick of it.

Just wanted to let everybody know that I'm doing a bit of traveling for business at the moment, so I haven't been as active on the forums, and I didn't get to post the Portable OO.o update or GIMP before I left (I didn't want to post them and then leave on the off-chance there was an issue). Keep an eye out later this week.

Regards,
John

Hi everyone,
I'm new to this and have a flash drive Setup question.My drive came formatted with FAT.Is it a good idea to reformat it with FAT32 if I want to run PFF and other P-apps.Also,I notice I do not have the NTSC formatting option for my flash drive in the right click-> format menu in Windows XP.Can I format a flash drive with NTSC and would that be preferred?Thanks much : )

I am looking for an application that will password protect my USB drive, or at least folders on it. I am looking for one that does not need to be install on the host machine. I'm not looking for encryption, just passwording of folders and files on the drive.

Thanks

1by1 is a 85kb app that can play whole directories of music with no need to edit a playlist. The GUI is decent considering the 85kb file. It also has Winamp input plugin support to play multiple file formats.

http://www.mpesch3.de/

I was just thinking, is there any of creating a decent system of programs that would clean up a computer (and keep it clean), e.g. antivirus programs? This would come in handy as an "emergancy cleanup kit" (or, at least that's what I'd like to do).

Hi. I've noticed that a lot of portable apps I've tried to install on my USB stick involve a lot of small files, which inflates the size of my apps quite a bit on the stick.

For example, Portable Firefox 1.5 with the extensions I installed comes in at 19.5MB, but size on disk is 22.7MB. Portable GIMP is even worse. Size is 17.5MB, but size on disk is 30.5MB, and it uses over a thousand files! Uniserver is almost as bad as Portable GIMP, too. 800-something files and going from 17.2MB to 27.3 MB. The whole Portable Apps folder I installed from the latest release (minus the old version of Portable Firefox which I deleted) goes from 197MB to 252 MB and uses over 5000 files! To contrast, a portable version of Ad-aware I found but have yet to use only has 8 files and only goes from 2.48MB to 2.56MB.

"Help.html" links to "johnhaller.com".

i would love to be able to be my own smtp server. on the go..

I just joined the forum so I could post this link as it might interest quite a few of you.
http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/09/09/windows_in_your_pocket/index.html
Essentially it's a guide to installing windows on a usb flash drive with the intent of it working like a live CD. There are loads of obvious uses for this, like fixing a computer that won't boot, or even running windows on a computer with no hard drive in it. Just thought it might be interesting!