IRC Log from 2011-11-18

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02:39:40 <GizmoBot> zachthibeau is the main developer of PChat and is a developer with PortableApps.com
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06:35:25 <DannyMuniz> .seen kAlug
06:35:25 <GizmoBot> Sorry, I haven't seen kalug around.
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17:09:59 <Simeon> hi all
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17:24:52 <Simeon> hi sar3th
17:25:00 <sar3th> hello Simeon
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17:38:54 <GizmoBot> ZachThibeau is the main developer of PChat and is a developer with PortableApps.com
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18:02:33 <pa_7557> Need a little help. How do I backup my thumb to the cloud?
18:05:35 <pa_7557> help!
18:05:36 <GizmoBot> pa_7557: Welcome to the PortableApps.com official chatroom. Ask your question and someone should be able to help you shortly. If you still don't get an answer, try posting on the forums: http://portableapps.com/forums
18:05:40 <pa_7557> Anybody there?
18:06:09 <pa_7557> Did you not see my question?
18:07:33 <Simeon> hi pa_7557
18:07:40 <Simeon> What cloud?
18:08:51 <Simeon> There is no built-in backup service to backup your apps or your drive to the cloud..
18:09:08 <pa_7557> hello. Here is my problem. I teach in a computer environment so I use computers in many different classrooms. Thus portable apps is great for me. But I just lost my thumb and I didn
18:09:23 <pa_7557> didn't back it up as often as I should at home
18:09:43 <Simeon> You can use the backup-tool built into the menu to backup the drive to a zip file and upload that.
18:10:51 <pa_7557> Is there something that syncronizes with online storage like google docs or carbonite?
18:11:24 <pa_7557> making and uploading a 6 Gig zip file doesn't sound attractive
18:12:55 <Simeon> There is nothing specifically from us.
18:13:14 <Simeon> but you can use whatever sync app you want.
18:13:22 <Simeon> thats not portable though.
18:13:52 <pa_7557> I can't load programs to these different computers since I don't have administrator access.
18:13:58 <Simeon> I know I only backup my stuff at home; and as this issue has rarely come up in the forums, I think most people do.
18:15:50 <pa_7557> I also looked into encrypting my new thumb for protection but the programs I have found require admin access to use.
18:16:27 <Simeon> yes. all good encryptions I know do.
18:16:46 <Simeon> the best thing is built-in encryption but those drives cost more and I dont know baout performance
18:17:28 <pa_7557> I tried truecrypt which seems to work great but when I tried to access the info at work it wouldn't let me since I didn't have admin privledges
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18:19:36 <pa_7557> Thanks for trying Simeon. Any other ideas?
18:20:18 <Simeon> not really.
18:21:04 <pa_7557> You would think portable encryption would be a priority for portableapps to work on since we are all succeptible.
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18:22:11 <Simeon> Yes. And it has been asked for a lot of times. But missing admin rights to register a driver is something one cant really work around very well.
18:22:42 <Simeon> Some compynies look/sound like they did it but they all want money for their inventions :(
18:24:16 <pa_7557> As much as I like free stuff if it worked it would be worth not paying for identity protection.
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18:44:38 <Simeon> bye pa_7557 & everyone else
18:44:53 <sar3th> bye Simeon
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22:40:35 <Cybermage> Whats better to use ntsf or exfat
22:41:14 <Cybermage> ?
22:43:13 <ZachThibeau> for flash media fat32
22:43:33 <ZachThibeau> that way you can use it across multiple platforms without too much issue
22:44:23 <ZachThibeau> ntfs will work so that is an option but if you want exfat if I recall that would only tie you to vista and 7 (I could be wrong with that bit of information about exfat)
22:44:56 <benedikt93> exfat is definitly not available on XP and earlier
22:45:49 <sar3th|trouble> Windows Vista supports exFAT from SP1, XP with SP2 has an update available to add exFAT support
22:46:34 <benedikt93> ah, /me didn't know about the update for XP
22:46:56 <ZachThibeau> iirc other platforms like osx and other *nix varients are still developing a driver for it
22:47:12 <ZachThibeau> but all in all I think fat32 or ntfs be the best options to go
22:47:53 <sar3th|trouble> "An experimental, open source Linux kernel module that supports the reading of exFAT files is currently under development."
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22:48:06 <sar3th> "A proprietary, read/write solution, licensed and derived from the Microsoft exFAT implementation, is available for Android, Linux and other operating systems from Tuxera."
22:48:11 <sar3th> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT ;)
22:52:35 <Cybermage> what to do me flash media?
22:53:38 <Cybermage> *what is flash media
22:55:08 <ZachThibeau> like a flash drive
22:55:13 <ZachThibeau> usb thumb sticks
22:55:22 <ZachThibeau> it has all sorts of names
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23:07:24 <Cybermage> Ok kk usb
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23:54:51 <GizmoBot> zachthibeau is the main developer of PChat and is a developer with PortableApps.com
23:54:54 <GizmoBot> zachthibeau is the main developer of PChat and is a developer with PortableApps.com
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