Running Firefox from a USB stick

[Valerie Sutton]

SignWriting List
November 12, 2007

Wonderful information, Stuart!

Thank you...

So Kathleen, at the Kasterlinden School, they could have Firefox on a  
Flash Drive (USB stick)...do you have those at your school? Without  
having to install Firefox on their computer, they can just plug in  
the USB stick in the usb port on the computer and they can open  
Firefox that way...

Val ;-)

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On Nov 12, 2007, at 10:47 AM, Stuart Thiessen wrote:

> That is a good idea, Adam. Maybe some of you didn't know. You can  
> download a specialized version of most opensource software  
> (including Firefox and Thunderbird) that can run from a USB stick.  
> The portable versions are also free. This way you don't have to  
> install anything on the computers (office or school). You can  
> simply put in the USB stick and then run Firefox from that USB  
> stick. It does also have DOSBox that you can download onto a stick  
> which could allow you to access SW-DOS for any older documents you  
> have in that format.
>
> The website for this software is: www.portableapps.com. All of this  
> software works on Windows, but if you are running any versions  
> earlier than XP, you should check on the website for any  
> compatibility issues.
>
> FYI,
>
> Stuart
> On 12 Nov 2007, at 12:21 , Adam Frost wrote:
>
>> My work only has IE on their computers. That is when I noticed  
>> that there are several SignPuddle features that don't work. And I  
>> don't think that I am allowed to download on their computers, so I  
>> "installed" Firefox onto a flash drive. Now I just use that  
>> instead of having to download every time I'm at a new computer.
>>
>> Just my way around of it. ;-)
>>
>> Adam
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: "Kasterlinden Bilinguaal" <katjesaar at hotmail.com>
>>
>> Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 19:14:06
>> To:"Signwriting list" <sw-l at majordomo.valenciacc.edu>
>> Subject: [sw-l] problem with signpuddle 1.5
>>
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> yes news from Belgium (the Flemish side ;)!!
>> Don't mind the government issues in Belgium at the moment. I will  
>> sort itself out ;)
>>
>> Now for my question.
>> One fine evening I was working with Signpuddle. It's listed in my  
>> favourites. So to my surprise I saw that the layout was different.  
>> It looks good, but then I tryed to translate a sentence into VGT.
>> No luck. Nothing happens. (I hit translate and the screen does not  
>> change)
>> I mailed Val about this.
>> The funny thing is in 'firefox' it does work, but not in internet  
>> explorer.
>> Does anyone have an explanation for this? Or can anyone help me  
>> out. Not everyone at my school has firefox and I'm already happy  
>> they try to use the signpuddle, so asking them to install all  
>> kinds of things is a big step for some teachers.
>> Does anyone have the website to download firefox in worst case  
>> scenario?
>>
>> Also what I notice is that it used to go pretty fast, translating  
>> a sentence. Now we first have to select each sign before we get  
>> the sentence. But maybe that's because it's new. I'll find out the  
>> advantages when I can really start working with it ;)
>>
>> Thank you very much,
>> kind regards from rainy Belgium (and cold)
>> Kathleen (Kasterlinden)
>>
>>
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