18 responses to “Using Portable Apps on Purdue Computers”

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   Zacheriah Ruggles October 18th, 2009 at 08:41

   Thats cool how there is always a way around the restrictions. The free 50 gigs is also a very cool thing and couldn’t get much better than that.

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   Sree Harsha Uddandam October 18th, 2009 at 10:17

   Yeah I have tried to run apps on Purdue computers, but the computers are so slow that i couldn’t do that. I might probably try that because I didn’t know that it has 50 gigs of capacity. Good to hear that and also good to maintain it.

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   Chris Miller October 18th, 2009 at 11:10

   I remember using Portable Firefox in high school because the lab machines only had IE. I also had IM and FTP clients so that my settings were saved to the flash drive and I could access them at any computer anytime. Pretty cool stuff.

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   Allison Weilbaker October 18th, 2009 at 12:22

   Good to hear that I can find free storage outside of Purdue’s system considering I’ve only been at school for 8 weeks and have already used over 3gigs

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   Brian Lee October 18th, 2009 at 14:04

   Yeah these portable apps are convenient. In high school i also used Firefox portable because i could install flash player and my settings and themes on it while i couldn’t on school computers.

   & Boiler Up! Crazy game yesterday

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   Greg Forney October 18th, 2009 at 15:04

   That is really cool I’ll have to keep that in mind.

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   Brent McClean October 18th, 2009 at 15:19

   50 gigs is impressive! Almost as impressive as Purdue beatings OSU!!!

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   Lyndsey S. October 18th, 2009 at 15:49

   Agreed! All the things you can do with simply having internet access!! I would like to check this 50 gb application out!

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   Karlis Jansons October 18th, 2009 at 15:51

   I’m really impressed that your given fifty gigs. That is really a good amount of storage and is far larger than what many competitors offer.

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    Xi Wu October 18th, 2009 at 16:28

    We have so much resource to benefit from.

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    Theresa Reinhart October 18th, 2009 at 18:37

    The ADrive thing is extremely helpful. I am in computer graphics and alot of the houses that we need to model and render out require soooo much storage space. Im definitely going to look into that. Thanks!

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    Chris Perry October 18th, 2009 at 19:02

    Wow thanks this might help me do a few things i couldnt before.

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    Shawn Tomlinson October 18th, 2009 at 19:22

    I’ve never used anything like this before but it would definitely be useful. I will be putting this to use next time i need to run something on purdue’s computers.

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    Marisa Strupp October 18th, 2009 at 20:42

    I really like how much storage space I have available at purdue. Its better then lugging around a flash drive and hoping it works at the labs.

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    Andrew Rodriguez October 18th, 2009 at 21:18

    Its amazing all the things ITAP has been able to provide for its students you would think they would lock everything down so that work-arounds weren’t so easy.

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    Quentin Campbell October 19th, 2009 at 09:50

    Yeah your right you would think they would have some type of good security to stop the loop holes.

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    Eugene October 20th, 2009 at 01:10

    I like the A drive Idea just set up an account but they are on a collusion course with heavy weights like yahoo(my zume drive) who have entered the same market.

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    Ankit Buti October 21st, 2009 at 22:42

    This is pretty common these days. There are tons of companies that offer cloud computing kind of service and I doubt if A Drive is going to make it to the top of this market.
    And I agree that there will be security issues with this always and almost nothing can be done about it.