General Discussion

I'm packaging the Suite 1.1 and have hit a block. PNotes, which used to work with Windows 9x no longer does. It looks like it's due to use of advanced window features (like transparency). Right now, everything else in the Suite works on Windows 98 and above (most Windows 95). We'll be dropping that requirement in the next Suite because it will have Firefox 3 (and eventually Thunderbird 3) which only support Windows 2000 and up.

So, I'm thinking of pulling PNotes from the Suite for now. Any thoughts?

Okay, I'm pretty new to Drupal, not sure if this'll work, but I was browsing modules and found the SpamSpan module.
According to the page, it obfuscates email addresses to help prevent spambots from collecting them.
This would give the mods one less task to take care of
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[Topic moved to "General Discussion" from "Portable App Development" by mod Tim]

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Drupal 6 Upgrade - DONE!

Just for laughs I copied my Internet Explorer folder from my programs folder to my portable apps drive. It ran fine on the three machines I tested. Granted those three machines were all either Windows XP or Vista and had the same version of IE installed.

I realize that IE isn't open source but I thought it was worth mentioning for those of us that use Internet Explorer and not Firefox.

Hi there.

i use apps from PortableApps.com for a long time now.
and i find myself, monthly or something close to that, looking for all the apps to check out new versions of it.

this is not easy (well it's not too complex either, but could be better)

so here is what i was thinking.

during the unzip of the app, you maybe could write somewhere the version of the app (ex: Pidgin\2.4.1.ver)

then the StartPortableApps.exe could read this on the start up, and check on the website for new versions.

is this too far complex than it seems?
just does not make sense?

Hi there, sorry to ask about simple same issue in new thread, but I have other problem. I picked each pictures of usb drives and delivery to new file in PC and i cleaned up my usb driver. I scanned my college virus called "Symantec Anti-virus" on the usb drive. nothing infected like spy ware or virus but there is one file and other program that i can't delete. I deleted both and it came back again. It's a folder "Recycler" and other "autorun.inf"

What is this for? The folders are hidden..I never seen it before.

I apologize if it's in wrong section. My mom's computer got attacked with spy ware and she have bunch of pictures she doesn't want to lost. Lucky I had my usb drive with me, so I load the pictures in it and I reinstalled window XP. Everything look like a factory setting which was so great. Then I unload the pictures off my usb drive to my mom's computer. Spy ware attacked again. It's obviously it was in my usb drive. How can I clean the spyware in my usb drive? I have millions college documents in it and can't afford to lose.

Now i know that you guys love 7zip and peazip for their archiving abilities, but i extraxt more .zip files than i create. I'm not a programmer or anything, but i use portable apps a lot to do work on different computers (school, home, laptop, etc.), and so maybe i just can't figure it out, but here's my problem: i haven't been able to succesfully extract any .zips using either of these two programs.

Here's a rather extensive test of a bunch of mini-UFD's :
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/memory/display/2gb-miniusb.html

The drives tested are :
# A-Data PD17
# A-Data PD19
# A-Data T730 "Something like Mickey. With the memory"
# Apacer Handy Steno
# ATP Petito
# Filemate Mini
# Filemate Mini Pro
# Kingston DataTraveler mini
# Kingston DataTraveler mini fun
# Kingston U3 DataTraveler
# Patriot Xporter Mini
# Pretec i-Disk BulletProof
# SanDisk Cruzer Titanium U3
# Super Talent Pico-A
# Super Talent Pico-C
# Transcend JetFlash 130
# Transcend JetFlash 185

The site is back up after the Drupal 6 upgrade, but it will be slow while the cache and search indexes are rebuilt. The forums, in particular, will be quite slow. A couple things are disabled (forum stats, for instance) and a couple things will look visually odd for a bit (recent posts, table headers, page links), but these things should be resolved later today.