Hi Rich,
I use the USB all the time for booting different operating systems and demonstrating web servers and applications, especially with 8Gb and large being so inexpensive these days.but the PortableApps.com thing is something I did not know about but will soon be doing.. There is just one thing about a USB Flash disk is that they have a finite life of about 100,000 writes and also that to reuse a bit of data it has to first erase a block http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flash_memory#Limitations . So if you are using it in a task which has significant write operations (such as the example the article quotes of an extra disk cache) then you can expect it to go belly up at some stage. But for most things 100,000 writes is a damn long time. Bye Brian _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rich Bragonje Sent: Thursday, 13 August 2009 3:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [Dataperf] Web query connection to DP. Hi Ed, Found this in an article in a Tech Republic newsletter. 10 cool things you can do with a USB flash drive http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1110169 <http://downloads.techrepublic.com.com/abstract.aspx?docid=1110169&tag=nl.e1 01> &tag=nl.e101 If you are not a subscriber, you won't be able to get to the article, but sign up is easy and free. Perhaps this might be a way you can experiment with a web application. __________________________________________________ 9: Run a Web site from it If you are a Web developer, you may be interested to know that with Server2Go, you can easily run a Web server that supports Apache, PHP, MySQL, and Perl right from a USB flash drive. You can use Server2Go right out of the box without any installation. It runs on all versions of Windows, supports most common browsers, and is completely free. To a developer, the benefits of having a portable Web server on a USB drive are numerous. For example, imagine being able to carry a live Web site demo into a sales pitch meeting. For more information about this package, visit the <http://www.server2go-web.de/> Server2Go site <http://www.server2go-web.de/> . ____________________________________________________ Rich
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