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Using Java on school computers, with no java or user resricted computers

Submitted by rolitin001 on May 16, 2011 - 10:46am

I just started making my own virtual machine using VM player and ubunto as my OS and i see lots of discussions debating how to run java portably etc and was wondering if you could use a virtual machine on any computer, with your external hardrive or usb to use any java application???

why hasn't anyone thought of this.

EccoPro can be a portable App

Submitted by wyomingpat on May 10, 2011 - 7:20pm

In 1992 the best PIM ever came out called EccoPro it lived and was developed until 1997 when Netmanage aquired it, released an update and then dropped it. It has all a PIM should have - it is a powerful outliner too. It is free to download if you google it. There is an installer for W7 and Vista

I installed it to my own W7 pc jumpdrive. As I need to use it on my "protected" work laptop I plugged the drive in and ran the exe file. It kept looking for about 4 dll's and I copied them across to the Ecco program folder one at a time until it worked - Everything works on it - good deal.

local update repository for packages

Submitted by frares on May 6, 2011 - 10:40am

I was wondering that it would be a bandwidth saver if we could check for updates both remotely and locally:

I have some colleagues in the company I work for, and we all use and enjoy having such nice and handy portable apps.

If there are new packages, they would be downloaded to a local repository first, then updated to the flash drive. Latter, other guys would have most of the updated packages already available locally.

Thanks for all that good stuff.
Francisco

How do you take hosts file and work by USB flash drive

Submitted by fireclaw on May 4, 2011 - 10:38pm

Sometimes, I must edit hosts file that necessary to access website.
But I use different computer and I don't want to edit each computer.
I install Chrome portableApp in my USB flash drive, Is there any way to not edit computer local hosts file and access website?
How do you configuration portableApps to use hosts file in USB flash drive? Chrome or Firefox.

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