Request Apps

I've seen a lot of references to installing a JRE on a USB key. Can anyone provide a set of instructions for doing this? I know John has said that he's got one in the works, but he seems to have a lot on his plate at the moment. Maybe someone can help him out a little. It would be great if the howto could also include things like where the JRE needs to be located to run various apps using relative paths, and so forth, so wannabe-geeks like me, who don't automatically think of these things, could implement it.

If this has already been addressed, I applologise. I did a forum search, but didn't find any instructions.

Would it be possible to list Damn Small under the portable OS page? It can be used from a thumbdrive - either embedded while running Windows or booted directly from the USB drive.

http://coolplayer.sourceforge.net/

this is only and executable file 300 odd kb and is a great small MP3 player

Right now we don't have a Windows portable GUI solution for SCP transfers from any remote linux machine to which ever local machine that we may be using. I know there is the command-line functionality for PSCP and PuTTY, and WinSCP for installation alternatives. But it would be awesome to have something similar to Filezilla that allowed SSH/SCP connections also (not just FTP).

Is Python portable? compiler? Someone else asked for c++, What all programming languages are portable?

I am looking for theabove mentioned tool. I have been using AZZ cardfile, but was looking for alternatives.

Any thoughts?

Thanks

Keith

Looking for a Free C++ Compiler of course portable.

Answered my own question about it's portability. From the readme:
Only the last 10 items are remembered and these are stored in the
registry.

Ran across this free calculator app. Is it/can it be portable?
http://www.esbcalc.com/esbcalc.htm

I'm trying to prepare for when our USB drive usage at work becomes limited, i.e. if the USB ports become disabled or restricted. So I'm trying to put my portable apps on a CD. However, I noticed that some of the key porta-apps I use need an INI file to run properly. For some of them, I could probably come up with a wrapper batch file. But for most of them, an INI file is a must.

So I'm looking to see if it's possible to dynamically create/load/mount a RAM disk. If so, I could copy the porta-app I want over to the RAM disk and then run it from there. When I'm done using the porta-app, I can then just remove it from the RAM disk. Hopefully, this could all be done with a batch file.

I would prefer to use SyncBack but it stores it setting to the registry. Does anybody have any suggestions on an alternative that can compress the backups. I tried portable Abakt but it had some downfalls. The most anoying is that if I just want to copy a file it won't do it without storing it in the same path in the destination directory. Thanks