General Discussion

So I was using a portable app (PhotoFiltre) on my flash drive, closed it, then removed the flash drive. I recieve a write error from WinXP. I put the drive back in, now that program plus half of my flash drive showed up as corrupt when trying to open the files.

I then removed the flash drive, then put it back in. Now when I try to open the drive, it says "Insert disk".

I tried accessing the drive thru the Admin Tools ->Disk Managerment, no luck.

This is the 3rd time this has happen to me. It use to happen alot when I streamed mp3s from my flash drive, 2 drives died that way. I stopped doing that, but now it happen when using a portable app.

Could be Protable Apps for Linux Systems created too?

Hi,
I created a small application called µStart. It works as a application launcher. But you can also open other files (e.g. .DOC) or other folders on your drive.

It is quite similar to PStart, but it is much smaller (only 68k) and has no fancy stuff (like application icons, maybe they will come in a later version) or notes functionality.

All path informations are stored as relative paths. It also allows to start applications automatically on launch and also to close most of them automatically.

On my homepage is a detailed (german) description, but µStart itself is english. You can at least take a look at the screenshots.

Does anyone know of any portable matrix calculators? Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Does anyone know of any portable software like PSpice (just the schematics part). This is circuit design software used commonly in electrical, electronic... engineering. I basically just need software to draw circuit diagrams. Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Had a corrupted permissions table that needed fixing in the database. Took a while to figure it out.

Seems it started earlier in the day and came to a head a little while ago. If you notice any other issues, please let me know.

Regards,
John

Well I just got a change log e-mail from the Ubuntu team and I noticed that one of the changed items was this:

* Ubuntu can now be installed to USB devices, such as removable hard
drives and flash memory, using the text-mode installer

If anyone wants to try it the download link is here

http://us.releases.ubuntu.com/releases/6.06/

Steve

Hi,

I would like to change the splash screen in firefox, fillezilla, and add one in thunderbird which doesn't have.
Is it possible with an exa editor like portableXNRE or is it just a .ini to change or a xml....
Thank yopu in advance, And thank you again for your contribution to the free software community.

Lately i've become addicted to portable apps, and I've been on a mission to find the best option (in my opinion) for portable storage, speed, reliability, and lifespan.

After buying and testing 4 USB stick drives, and two usb mini hard drives, i've found that the new WD passport pocket hard drive is by far the best device on the market for portable apps.

After trying out four different USB stick drives (memorex travel drive, sandisk cruzer etc..) I was very disappointed in the speed that all my portable apps were loading. Firefox was lagging pretty bad on all four of the usb stick drives I tested. I was also worried about the lifespan of these drives, because i know that they only last for a certain amount of writes/rewrites and can die pretty quick under heavy use.

I've been experimenting with several of the apps running from a new GeIL 1GB USB flash drive on a mid-range Dell D510 notebook and I'm dumbfounded at how fast AbiWord and OpenOffice load. AbiWord is up almost instantaneously (well, about four seconds, actually, but I've never seen a word processor load so fast) and OpenOffice Writer opens in about 15 seconds.

(The Dell is no speed demon, but the GeIL USB drive is purported to be one of the faster drives on the market.)

I'm certainly impressed with these portable