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JabberD is portable !

Submitted by RossGoodman on March 2, 2006 - 9:09am

Hi

I have just found out that JabberD is portable !

All I had to do is copy the cygwin1.dll into the jabberd folder !

Background:
I work as an IT consultant on customer sites, hence my dependance on portable apps !
It's quite common for me and my colleagues to be spread through a building using "spare" desks. Now I can run JabberD on my desktop and we can use portable GAIM to chat to each other.
This is not dependant on an external internet connection.

Only problem I see is when the jabberd moves to a new pc everyone has to re-register as the "host" has changed, not such a big deal.

I'm Back / Status Update / Running Behind

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 1, 2006 - 3:59pm

Howdy all,

I just wanted to drop a quick note in the forums as an update. I've chatted with a couple people about what's been up. I had mentioned I was a bit under the weather a while ago. I wound up sick for about 3 weeks and only managed to kick it recently. I should be fine now, but I have some followup tests just to be sure.

I also mentioned that there was an illness in my family that I was going to be away for. My grandmother had heart failure and was hospitalized last week and I had gone to CT to be with her. She passed away on Friday night. The funeral was yesterday. I'm just thankful that we were with her and she didn't go alone.

Confession and Status Report

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Submitted by Steve Lamerton on March 1, 2006 - 11:23am

I am not very good at writing long posts so I will keep this one short. It will consist of two parts, a confession (if you can call it that) and a status report.

The Confession

I'm 15 years old. Now this may not seem like a problem but some communities just don't like it so I thought I'd mention it before I become a bit of a 'feature' round here.

Status Report

Here we go on the status report

Program Name - Version - Features - Date

Profile Sync - 1.2 - Adds cache options - Next two weeks
PortaLog - 2.0 - Adds email facility - Next month or so (whenever nm35 can help)
Portable Firefox with Sync - 1.0 - Complete re-design - Next week

WD: a "hand drive"

Submitted by allquixotic on February 27, 2006 - 9:48am

These devices are getting to be affordable, small, and high capacity:

http://www.wdc.com/en/products/Products.asp?DriveID=199

I own one of these and I love it. It really is as small as it looks, and it keeps well in a small pouch in my backpack. I bought it from the WD Store but I'm sure you could find it 40% off at some discount store online (although if it breaks, good luck getting any help from them.)

For comparison, it's about two thumb drives thick and one and a half thumb drives long. Depends on the size of your thumb drive of course. I haven't (intentionally or accidentally) given it a physical beating to test its ruggedness, since it is an actual hard drive and not a stick of flash RAM...

MPUI + MPlayer. Portable and 'better' than VLC.

Submitted by DigeratiPrime on February 26, 2006 - 11:45pm

I just want to reccomend this app. Its fully portable, only 2 files, about 3mb total, and plays more or less what vlc does and does a better job imo. MPUI is the 'mpc' like frontend for mplayer. I reccomend playing files by just dragging them on MPUI.exe or on the open window. Try it Smile

http://mpui.sourceforge.net/index.php

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