General Discussion

Hi all,

I was wondering the life expectancy of a portable hard drive versus a portable flash drive. How long do portable hard drives last?

Steve

I am not sure what topic I shuld post this message in. So I am posting in this one.

Could you prompt me whether it is possible to include Python and mod_python into portable XAMPP for Windows.

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2006/11/portableapps-suite.html

Just someone plugging PAM on the Google Operating System Blogs

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I would like to see an option in the forums to "Mark All Forums Read" And "Mark All Posts Read" for each forum.
This would make finding new posts a lot easier with out having to go through and read every post to clear the "new" flag.

Hi,
I just started using portable apps. So far it's just FireFox & Thunderbird. I was wondering if there is, or will be an extension to synchronize your portable apps with your desktop versions of those apps? Specifically mail & addresses in Thunderbird; and bookmarks in Firefox?
Also, is there also an extension for Thunderbird Portable that will find ( and remove )duplicate mail & addresses, and and extension that will find duplicate bookmarks in Firefox portable?
Thanks in advance.
- Jamie

Hey to everyone, this is my first post here.

First of all, thanks to whole open source community for making great apps, and thanks to everyone here who made the same apps portable.

Second, how about making some kind of protection for portable apps?
Althrought you can have clamwin on your USB drive, it's dumb to scan every PC in wich you plug your USB drive. How about some kind of locking of portable apps on your USB, so infected computers can't infect your portable apps when you run them.

I just happened to check the site tonite, and to my surprise found the new suite and a bunch of updated programs..
Is there a problem with the newsletter, or have you just been to busy send anything out?
Anyway, I would definitely appreciate the newsletters being sent or some kind of new software update notification. Thanks.

John, just to clarify, is the PAF format just the normal PortableApps style directories and the extractor?
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I may be dreaming and certainly don't have the expertise to create such a program, however ...

Would it be possible for a stand-alone application to create a virtual drive on the fly (like truecrypt, etc.) which instead of using space on a physical drive, used ram?

Issues I can forsee ...
* Would probably require administrative rights (like truecrypt).
* OS could chose to write some of the info to disk in a swapfile.