General Discussion

Is PortableApps.com a 501(c)(3) or equivalent entity that would make donations US tax deductible?

On PortableApps.com, the layout breaks when there is a long string of text with no spaces. Like here. You could put a p{word-wrap:break-word;} in your CSS to fix this.

NOTE: This should work in IE, Safari, and Opera (I assume Chrome also). It will work in the next version of Firefox.

I've had issues before with this but, I pretty much forgot about it when I got my own laptop. It seems that the computers at my College Library (and possibly others as well) don't like it when an external drive is formatted as NTFS. Before when I used these computers frequently I ended up reformatting the drive using a virtual machine I'd set up shortly before hand. Thing is I had to reformat again and I didn't have my VM setup to hand the job. The Drive is more than 32GB so the built in methods for Microsoft refuse to work.

I want to be able to surf the internet without worry about the webpages downloading information onto my hard drive. I was wondering I using PortableApps could keep that from happening. My thought is that all the webpage information should be downloaded onto my flash drive rather than my hard drive. Am I understanding correctly how this works.

The search feature of the site is currently not functioning.
This is probably due to yesterday's outage.
https://portableapps.com/node/19676

As I think folks expected it to be slow and not down I note it here.

FYI

Tim

It's very odd - I thought at first it might be my USB drive being corrupted - so I ran multiple chkdsk's - and after "reinstalling" the updater beta tonight, I get the same errors - when i click on abort update, obviously it ends the program, but when I click no to close the updater, it says that the MD5 checksums of (insert any program here) do not match - your download may have been corrupted. Package (insert any path and *.paf.exe deleted.) any ideas as to why this is happening - or has been happening for quite some time?

We had a site outage today from approximately 5pm EDT (NY time) to midnight. This was due to the same issue as the last outtage, the live feed / battery / generator switching equipment that failed during the severe storms near our data center in Texas last week.

Today's issue caused a complete and sudden power loss on the database server which corrupted the database on which Drupal runs. There was some concern that we may have to restore to last night's backup, but we were able to restore the affected tables after a few hours of work.

I have tried searching on the following two questions but there does not appear to be a straight answer ..
1 - On the top of the screen, the portableapps.com name and logo - can this be replaced with one of my design? I know I can click on the right but that is not what I want.
2 - On the menu, Music, videos, pictures eyc - can I replace those with different folders as I do not use music etc but have other folders I would like to use?

Thanks for any help or insight.

BTW - When is version 2 due out - Is there a date yet?

Our live support is now no longer working, due to Freenode deciding to ban the use of mibbit of their network. See here for more information: http://freenode.net/news.php

This means that:
A. We have to find a new client to use for out live support (meaning all our regulars who use mibbit have to get used to something new)
B. We have to switch to a different server (not really feasible either imho)

As you can understand, both aren't things we wanna do.
Either way, we need to fix this, and fast, as for now live support is no longer accessible through our page for it.

Got this on a download once I began installer process:

Installer integrity check has failed. Common causes include
incomplete download and damaged media. Contact the
installer's author to obtain a new copy.

More information at:
http://nsis.sf.net/NSIS_Error

opinions anyone?