being to the party late

By basd on Jan 28, 2009 | In web 3.0?, cloud computing

The wonderful thing about always being late to the party is that I never have to actually create anything myself. Someone has already done it for me, I just have to find it.

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So, in our last episode, the question was, "how can I unencrypt my gpg stuff on a public computer?"

Here's GPG To Go, which asked and answered the question a couple of years ago. The page also references Portable Thunderbird.

As we can see, these programmers answered the question long before I even thought about asking it.

Closer to what I'm looking for is FireGPG, which builds gpg right into Firefox. But then I need Portable Firefox -- or heck, why not a bunch of Portable Apps..

(Of course, I don't know whether a normal publicly accessible computer in 2009 will actually allow execution of all these .exe programs from a USB drive. If it were my public computer, I probably would prevent that. But, until I test it, I will assume Mr. Haller has checked it out and wouldn't be going to all the trouble of building the apps if they weren't useful ...)

Here's a discussion of portable Firefox for Linux. It seems that "free" Firefox is not so free after all, as it seems to have rolled to a stop based on licensing issues.

And this effort. Also this. Apparently, the goal is to have a portable version that will run in EITHER linux or windows, which would be very convenient.

So, as you can see, I'm making progress without actually doing anything myself.

Thanks guys!

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