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Next Steps, Dedicated Server Soon

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 16, 2006 - 10:33pm

As I've hinted at in-forum and told several people offline, the site has gotten far more popular and in a much shorter timeframe than expected... causing several performance issues with the current host. That's why it's been offline a couple times in the last week. And, that's actually one of the reasons you haven't seen releases of Portable Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice.org, ClamWin, GIMP, and why VLC and Miranda haven't been stuck on the main page. A single new release with a spike in traffic would kill the site/hosting account. That's also why setting up the more community-participation aspects of the site has been dragging.

what is the general feeling of .net apps?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 11, 2006 - 6:35pm

I know that people are looking at portable java applications (which wouldn't interest me as I don't even have JRE installed), .net applications on the other hand do turn my head...

I develop .net applications (hey Rob Loach, I noticed you're signed up on here too... small portable world Smile - Paul A), and I'm wondering what the general feeling is about them for being portable apps, as you would have to have the .net framework installed first before it can be used... but the same goes for JRE.

On a side note, I am making a retro start program. Think waaaay back in history. Before the introduction of Windows 95. Before the accursed Taskbar stole precious space off your 12" (or if you were lucky 14"!) monitor. Yes, I'm thinking back to windows 3.1... the PROGRAM MANAGER!

Localization Project: Coming Monday

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Submitted by John T. Haller on March 10, 2006 - 12:45pm

Just a heads-up to everyone. I'm starting the localization project on Monday and if you're multilingual... we'll need your help. The apps themselves are available in multiple languages, but the launchers have been English-only up until this point. You don't normally see messages from the launchers, unless there's a problem (eg: Another instance of Firefox is running, please close...)

The way it will work is I'll be posting a series of strings (sentence or two each) that we'll need translated. Replies will be made with those strings translated into each language and we'll go from there.

A quick launcher <40k. needs given more features...

Submitted by cch on March 10, 2006 - 11:58am

I've just found something interesting.
A quick launcher less than 40k, portable and green of course.
It's called "floater".

The zip is 32k, and the main program is 40k only.
Unzip, put shortcuts in the items folder, and run.
Then a quick launcher with shortcuts in the items folder will appear at the left-bottom of your screen.
Except launching, you can only click the left border of it to minimize it.
Not even move it, too bad. >_

%windir% on pstart?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 10, 2006 - 12:36am

Is there any way I can reference windir in pstart? I have a lot of apps added, such as notepad, etc) but some computers use c:\winnt and some use c:\windows. (I would like to keep the icons)

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