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Portable WinSCP (FileZilla SCP:SSH Support)

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 9, 2006 - 1:29pm

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).

dynamic RAM disk

Submitted by joet on March 7, 2006 - 8:16pm

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.

Portable Backup/Syncronization Software

Submitted by Jace on March 7, 2006 - 4:25pm

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

Open-Source Only Please!

Submitted by max302 on March 7, 2006 - 3:35pm

Haven't you noticed already that all the applications on this web site are open-source? Thats because poor John Haller can't just go and take the source of some big commercial program, say anything by Microsoft and modify it so it fits on a small drive. If he does, he risks huge lawsuits, because huge companies, again like Micosoft, want to make money off of their products, and just won't let anyone distribute their programs freely. So please, if you are to propose something , propose something thats opensource and stop posting junk in this section.

---M@X---

Portable Journal?

Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on March 7, 2006 - 3:07pm

I'm a scientist and I am looking for something to keep a journal for my research. Currently I use sunbird for this task and it gets the job done. I just wanted to compare with other programs to see what I like best.

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