Browser on a stick

If you don't already have a couple of flash drives, here's a reason to
get one

http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
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dillon

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On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:54:19 -0600, in
<81gbn2top9jbas3d5fsnr2j387rcnffc2t@4ax.com>, Dillon Pyron wrote:
> If you don't already have a couple of flash drives, here's a reason to
> get one
>
> http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable

What's kind of funny about this is that they're just reverting to creating
apps the way we used to create them before MS decided that everything
needed to modify the registry and put their DLLs in the Windows system
directory... I was always considered a bit reactionary in these regards
since I refused to conform to this methodology and continued to make my
applications such that they would run out of their own directory... As
such, they could *all* run from a floppy, a USB drive, or whatever...

Sure makes life easier as a software developer to know where the files and
links are. I LIKE IT...


"Grumman-581" <grumman581@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM-gmail.com> wrote in message
newsan.2006.12.05.20.29.59.781000@DIE-SPAMMER-SCUM-gmail.com...
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 12:54:19 -0600, in
> <81gbn2top9jbas3d5fsnr2j387rcnffc2t@4ax.com>, Dillon Pyron wrote:
>> If you don't already have a couple of flash drives, here's a reason to
>> get one
>>
>> http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/firefox_portable
>
> What's kind of funny about this is that they're just reverting to creating
> apps the way we used to create them before MS decided that everything
> needed to modify the registry and put their DLLs in the Windows system
> directory... I was always considered a bit reactionary in these regards
> since I refused to conform to this methodology and continued to make my
> applications such that they would run out of their own directory... As
> such, they could *all* run from a floppy, a USB drive, or whatever...
>

On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:30:46 -0500, in
<12nbp85k3c9acc9@corp.supernews.com>, HotRod wrote:
> Sure makes life easier as a software developer to know where the files
> and links are. I LIKE IT...

If you write your code right, you can even make it run from a CD...
Sometimes, you need temporary writable storage for holding information
between instances of running the application and in such situations,
having an associated directory on the hard disk might be necessary... With
a flash drive, that might be unnecessary, depending upon the amount of
data that you need to write to secondary storage... I suspect that in most
instances, hard drive storage is going to be quicker than flash drive
storage... One of the very few uses that I can see for storing information
in the registry is for pointing to where the application's home directory
is supposed to be... I tend to favor configuration files that resides in
the application's directory instead of putting this same information in
the registry... Since a lot of my code is reused between various UNIX
flavor machines and Windows machines, I wrote my own library of
configuration file manipulation routines that can use DES encryption for
hiding the information in the file in addition to allowing the same file
to be used across multiple platforms... In text form (i.e. without the
encryption), they're fairly similar to the win.ini style of configuration
files, but I've added a few extensions and of course, my code for
accessing the files is considerably more efficient than Microsoft's since
the configuration files is *not* reread each time it is queried...