General Discussion

http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=80811

Install Ubuntu v5.10 to USB Drive! Works on Flash Drives and HDDs.

I just installed this, and the tutorial was great. Very easy to follow.
I now have ubuntu on my USB HDD, and a 60GB FAT32 Partition for Shared use between it and Windows Boxes (had to customize the partitions, just resize). I've booted from a couple of machines, and it worked on both. I write this from inside ubuntu.

How does this relate to portable apps? Install wine and you can use many of them. I know have a whole system with me, usable in school as 'Nix or on Windows Boxes.

I'm looking for a whopper (2GB+) U3 drive that's fast and works well with John's PortableApps. Anyone have any suggestions?

Can you put english-only versions up with the multilinguals? This would save some space on USB drives.

Hey All,

I finally got my WD 6gb Pocket Drive and absolutely love it. I love having an actual Email Client everywhere I go, rather than relying on webmail everywhere. The PFF is awesome.

However I am looking for a simple way to back up my USB drive on a near daily basis. Currently I've been simply copying the entire drive to one of my hard drives as a folder USB Backup each day, but the number of clicks, etc. is number.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Also on a side note, I'm having problems with PFF and Profile Sync such that I setup PFF the way I want (bookmarks and all) but want it to sync with my newly installed Mozilla FF. But nothing happens after it says it updated. Any thoughts?

Hello ,
I've found more portable applications on the internet:

Their locations:

Portable OPERA
http://www.obermair.net/opera/operausben.htm

Portable WINAMP
http://www.voodoosystems.net/

Portable DOS EMULATOR
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/download.php?main=1

I'm looking for a desktop program with some features, can anyone give me some suggestions?

Features:
1. Create a virtual desktop with wallpaper from flash drive.
2. Customizable favorite folders and shortcuts on desktop, including both relative and absolute path. Softwares like ms office which most people have can be run from the local computer.
3. Switch the local desktop and your desktop.
4. Customizable workarea. You can set some space for showing widgets, and maximized windows won't cover this space. DesktopCoral(http://www.donationcoder.com/Software/Mouser/desktopcoral/index.html) does this, but only does this, too.

Hello
Has anyone used the new Kingston Elite-privacy USB drive with John’s programs? I like the on-the-fly encryption but don’t know how well it will work accessing numerous files such as in PTB.
Thanks
Bill

I am looking to get a new flash drive. I am looking at least 1GB, but I am open to suggestions.

I am looking for:

1. Reliability
2. Speed
3. Portable App Friendliness (not U3)
4. Capacity
5. Value/Price

I currently own a Lexar 128mb Jumpdrive, and a Geeksquad 512mb U3 (came free with the new laptop I bought 3 months ago)

I am not thrilled with U3 because of the amnount of space it seems to take up on the drive. The U3 system and the profiles it creates take up far too much space.

Any suggestions?

Ok, it looks like Drupal 4.7 should be released soon. I've been waiting for it to do some of the changes to the site I'd been planning. I know we've discussed the whole threaded vs unthreaded thing in the forums. Unthreaded is more standard, and makes it easier to see what's new. Threaded makes it easy to see what's a reply to what. Both have advantages. Both have disadvantages. Some sites us unthreaded (most bulletin board and forum sites). Some use threaded (Slashdot and other slashcode-based sites, kuro5hin, etc).

I was actually thinking of splitting the difference... a la Digg... in terms of the way comments (aka responses to forum topics) are displayed. So, each of the top-level comments would be a reply to the original post... but each reply to those would just be an unthreaded list.

Is there a portable desktop that act the a desktop with short cuts and icons?