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Forum Problems

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 17, 2006 - 10:23am

Greetings,

My wife registered me. I am able to login from my computer. She cannot login as me from her computer. She then registered (from her computer) under her own name and cannot login from her computer.

1. She can login as me from "my" computer, she cannot from hers.

2. She can login with her registered name and password from my computer but the information she gets is someone else's location (i.e. she is getting someone elses information?) She cannot login from her computer.

The bottomline is there is something wrong with forum logins/registrations. Some wires appear to be crossing. There is more but this is enough for now...

Lexar Jumpdrive Traveler

Submitted by wearingaredhat on February 16, 2006 - 11:10pm

It looks as if the portable application world is increasing in popularity extremely. I was given the 1 GB Lexar JumpDrive Traveler as a gift recently. You can see it online at http://www.lexar.com/jumpdrive/jd_trav.html. Its fairly interesting... It has a program called "Traveler.exe" on it. When you run the program it lets you start "portable" version of IE, Outlook Express, and a Sync application. When you run IE from the traveler program, It starts up IE and its a fairly default version. It also creates a folder on the drive entitled "My Settings" which contains various IE settings (bookmarks and what not) that you would normally find in the Documents and Settings folder on the local machine.

Portable JRE & Batch files

Submitted by RossGoodman on February 16, 2006 - 6:18am

Hi

I have followed the advice of others and have placed a JRE on my USB, just in time as my current desktop only has 1.3 !

For most of my apps (datastudio & freemind) I simply create a batch file which hard codes the relative path to the java.exe and this works a treat.

Two questions:

1)
When I do this I end up with 1 dos window and 1 app window, is there any way I can get the dos window to "go away" leaving my application running. On *nix I would simply tell it to run in the background.

2)
The batch file approach does not seem to work with RSSOwl, I get "Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: java"

Gotta go...

Submitted by nm35 on February 15, 2006 - 12:25pm

Since there's no off-topic forum, I'll post this here...

I have to leave for a while (long story), so I won't be able to do much of anything for at least a month...

See you all (but not that soon, I'm afraid)!

/steals Steve's ditto Wink

Ceedo & PA Observations

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 15, 2006 - 11:46am

OK, I'm a newbie at this PA stuff, so please forgive me if I belabor the obvious.

My interests in programs on a stick is primarily for computer service. Instead of installing Powerdesktop, Aida32, an AV, etc etc, I want to run it from the stick. My secondary purpose is to have some photos and mpgs on the stick for sharing purposes ("Hey, I just happen to have movies of the grandkids in my pocket!")

I stumbled on U3 and was all excited until I discovered the premium in flash drive cost and alleged performance issues.

About simultaneously, I discovered this website and Ceedo. My "flash drive" of the moment is a 512mb CF card in an USB adapter. I've ordered a 2gig real one. My OS is 2K with SP4. I have downloaded Ceedo, some of the apps, and PA apps and Pstart. My observations:

Usb drive - Not formated

Submitted by ASKRRA on February 15, 2006 - 10:41am

I have a creative muvo slim mp3 player 512mb, evrey once in a while when I was runing from it aplecations (Pstart, Thunderbird, Portable Gaim) I pluged it in to a new computer and the computer would claim it was unformated, and after that any other computer (diferent OS {all windows}) would claim the same. Formating the drive fixed the problem (and erased all info). The problem does not acoure when i dont run aplecations from the drive.
Also the Mp3 player still played the music (mp3) on the drive, when it was "unformated".

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