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Investigating Site Outage from 3:56AM to 6:26AM

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Submitted by John T. Haller on October 9, 2015 - 9:19am

We're investigating an outage that occurred between the hours of 3:56AM and 6:26AM. It appears to be due to a failure in Rackspace's Cloud Databases, a redundant system for mySQL databases that we host our backed on. I'll be posting an incident summary once I have all the details. Our apologies for any inconvenience.

PORTABLEAPPS.COM DOWNLOADS ARE NOT WORKING

Submitted by pulga on October 7, 2015 - 2:47pm

This URL (http://www.mega.cl/karaparaask/capitulos/tayyar-le-quitara-un-rion-a-met...) is supposed to show me a soap opera in order to download it, but everytime I try to watch it, Portable mozilla does not let me do it. In addition to that the IRC system is not working cause nobody answered to my questions.

Licensing PortableApps with commercial license

Submitted by slanglois on September 25, 2015 - 12:05pm

I would like to know whether it would be possible to "license" the PortableApp launcher, so that it is not under GPL.

Here is the whole story.
Alfresco is an Enterprise Content Management software, and we have been shipping "LibreOffice Portable" as part of the installer, to perform some transformation on documents. Alfresco is dually licensed: LGPL and Commercial.
Lately, more and more of our customers are getting nervous about GPL components, and we have to argue with them to convince that it's OK. We would like to stop doing that.

Upcoming .NET Support in the PortableApps.com Platform - Your Thoughts

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Submitted by John T. Haller on September 24, 2015 - 1:30pm

I've been working on .NET support in our ecosystem for a little while. It's been a bit complicated settling on a proper way to do things so that it 'just works' for the end user and they don't need to worry about things. For context, here's the state of .NET support in the various versions of Windows we support:

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