3:23 a.m.
When I built my portable app stick the first
software I wanted to try to move over was
GRETL.
http://portableapps.com/
All the apps sit on a memory stick
open office
gimp
clam
mozilla
notepadd++
pidgin
sumatra
is what I have on mine. With GRETL
it would be nearly complete!
Peter
At 06:26 PM 2/21/2008, you wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Mixon, Wilson wrote:
> Any thoughts of offering GRETL as a portable app?
Could you expand on that idea? Do you mean a "live CD" with
versions for all the platforms we support, or ... ?
Allin Cottrell
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3:59 a.m.
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Peter Davidoff wrote:
When I built my portable app stick the first
software I wanted to try to move over was
GRETL.
http://portableapps.com/
Ah, I see, "portable app" = "portable Windows app". It wouldn't
be very difficult to put gretl on a stick. The one problem I see
is the writing of user files. I suppose these would have to go
onto the stick too. But aren't you limited in the number of times
you can write/erase files on a stick? (And of course you couldn't
write such files to a typical CD at all.) Any idea how other apps
such as Gimp handle this?
Allin.
4:30 a.m.
I'm not at all sure. The way I use the stick is to
carry my lecture/grade/hw materials back and
forth from home/school/smart-class-room. And
when I save files, I use the network drives.
The advantage for me, should we get a portable
GRETL, is that I don't need to wait on IT to install,
configure, fix, &etc. I usually have to petition for
the stat room PCs, then the library machines, then the
econ lab, then student center PCs.... ugh. And every
semester IT wipes the systems and I have to
re-petition...
The nice thing about carrying Mozilla is that I don't
leave cookies on anyone's machines, just my stick.
Plus I have my personal links on the stick.
I suspect the same thing could be accomplished by
reformatting the stick as a small linux machine and
put GRETL on that....
w/r/t read+write, I've not reached a slowing point yet,
and I usually either upgrade or lose my flash before
that then :-(
Peter
At 08:59 PM 2/21/2008, you wrote:
On Thu, 21 Feb 2008, Peter Davidoff wrote:
> When I built my portable app stick the first
> software I wanted to try to move over was
> GRETL.
>
> http://portableapps.com/
Ah, I see, "portable app" = "portable Windows app". It wouldn't
be very difficult to put gretl on a stick. The one problem I see
is the writing of user files. I suppose these would have to go
onto the stick too. But aren't you limited in the number of times
you can write/erase files on a stick? (And of course you couldn't
write such files to a typical CD at all.) Any idea how other apps
such as Gimp handle this?
Allin.
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