Ultraportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere

[Cristatus]

I remember that there was a post related to what kind of stuff should be kept on a USB thumbdrive, and many different things came up. I was just browsing slashdot (which I never do) and on their front page was this article:

Ultaportable Apps: Take Your Thumbware Anywhere
Software
Posted by timothy on Monday March 21, @05:23PM
from the simon's-nephew-perhaps dept.
museumpeace writes "On his blog, Jeremy Wagstaff makes available a list of the
apps now packaged for USB Thumbdrives. He also wrote these up in WSJ but that will cost you. My personal favorite is the FireFox in a box...every where I went, I had a different crop of bookmarks, now my browsing is the same wherever I go."

Once again, this was on todays Slashdot

 

[Cristatus]

hmm...I guess nobody cares

 

[DotheDamnTHing]

Originally posted by: logic1485
hmm...I guess nobody cares

the story of your life

 

[geno]

I've heard of the thumbdrive version of FF before... I think it's pretty cool, once I get a thumbdrive I'm sure I'll be able to put some of those progs to good use

 

[sharkeeper]

Ha! A person fried a mobo with one of those things today. I thought the USB ports had protection for overcurrent. I didn't see it happen but I examined the machine. No POST. Pointed the Kata right at the southbridge chip and she lit up like a x mas tree. 122C and climbing. That board is toast. I don't know how people do the things they do. Seriously.

 

[Bassyhead]

Originally posted by: sharkeeper
Ha! A person fried a mobo with one of those things today. I thought the USB ports had protection for overcurrent. I didn't see it happen but I examined the machine. No POST. Pointed the Kata right at the southbridge chip and she lit up like a x mas tree. 122C and climbing. That board is toast. I don't know how people do the things they do. Seriously.

How did that happen? Sounds like maybe something screwed up with the connection itself?

 

[sharkeeper]

How did that happen? Sounds like maybe something screwed up with the connection itself?

I dunno. Typical squawk when the usual things don't work. They want to believe it's static. Not in this environment. I tried to build up static and can hardly get anything once I try to zap something. The connectors in the machine look fine. I'm afraid the USB drive may be the culprit and it's still at large with someone that has no idea they are carrying a computer killer with them. At least that is one of my theories that they are paying me big bucks to come up with.

 

[VirtualLarry]

sharkeeper, I did read some allegations printed in DigiTimes, that either the mobo makers, or Intel themselves, did something to cut costs, and removed some of the overcurrent protection present in most/older USB ports. It was kind of a vague article, kind of hard to say what was really going on technically. But I could easily see how cost-cutting, combined with increasing numbers of USB ports on boards, would possible lead to shortcuts being taken in terms of quality and protection devices. Not all boards include self-resetting/healing fuses on the PS/2 ports either.

 

[sharkeeper]

sharkeeper, I did read some allegations printed in DigiTimes, that either the mobo makers, or Intel themselves, did something to cut costs, and removed some of the overcurrent protection present in most/older USB ports. It was kind of a vague article, kind of hard to say what was really going on technically. But I could easily see how cost-cutting, combined with increasing numbers of USB ports on boards, would possible lead to shortcuts being taken in terms of quality and protection devices. Not all boards include self-resetting/healing fuses on the PS/2 ports either.

Too bad! I figured they'd polyswitch them. Lots of PEBKAC onboard!

Lemme find a fork. I guess if I stick the (fork) in it, it will truly be done! hahaha