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Convert · Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:02 pm

I finally got around to purchasing one of these things to put on my keychain so hawt women will like me. Think I am kidding? I even bought the sexiest one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6820180731

Seriously though I am using it for legitimate reasons but .doc files don’t really take up 490 megs. After some searching around for usb apps and hanging out in TRIRC I now have portable firefox, stinger, spyware removal tools and common video card drivers on it but I am not satisfied!

What do you have in your usb tool box?

DragonFli · Tue Oct 18, 2005 12:22 pm

Drivers!!! Lots of 'em!!!
They were particularly helpful when I didn't have x64 compatible nForce 3 drivers and thus couldn't get online to download any...

Vrock · Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:10 pm

On mine I currently have an Imperial arseload of pictures from my vacation, some WinXP PowerToy installation packages, dhmodtool 2.2, and some mp3s from U2: The Joshua Tree.

I don't ever keep anything on there long. I use my flash drive mostly as a sneakernet device.

BobbinThreadbare · Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:15 pm

Ultimate Doom! That combined with the Doomsday engine, makes for a great co-op game.

Vrock · Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:20 pm

BobbinThreadbare wrote:
Ultimate Doom! That combined with the Doomsday engine, makes for a great co-op game.

Whoa, I never thought of that...old games would be perfect to put on my stick. *Smacks head*

Jon · Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:26 pm

My Password Keyfile and my CV & covering letter just in case I get to an interview and they don't have my CV on hand I can whip the USB stick out and get it printed off. Who doesn't have USB port in their PC anyway?

Stripe7 · Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:31 pm

I keep manuals and a terminal emulator on mine.

totoro · Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:33 pm

Metropipe virtual machine/tunneling software.
Awesomely useful.
.

drfish · Tue Oct 18, 2005 1:38 pm

Currently the Black & White 2 v1.1 Patch, brought it to me nephew last night... Nothing ever stays on it for long though...

idchafee · Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:09 pm

I got a 1G stick, and I usually have any number of drivers on it. Right now though, its got all the html files for the official TR fantasy football web site

slavik6 · Tue Oct 18, 2005 2:22 pm

lots of fonts....as a graphic designer it's a pain to travel from computer to computer and find you are missing fonts when you try to open a project.

SuperSpy · Tue Oct 18, 2005 6:51 pm

MSDOS and a dos version of linpack - Great for testing systems.

Plus junk... lots and lots of junk.

Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:19 pm

Which drive?

BTW, wouldn't the HT203 with the faster speed and red colour be sexier?

lethal · Tue Oct 18, 2005 7:46 pm

an n64 emulator (just for OOT and MM), PSX emulator, lots of little tools/programs (firefox, regcleaner, sandra, etc), drivers and sometimes documents and presentations.

bhtooefr · Tue Oct 18, 2005 8:51 pm

Here goes nothing... keep in mind, this isn't an accurate tree, it's all IIRC (I'm between UFD's right now - my current one is unusable, my new one, well, Welch hasn't shipped it yet, I don't think...)

Apps\
     Opera 8.50
     Notepad++ (text editor)
     PuTTY
     PSCP
     Spyware Cleanup\
          Microsoft AntiSpyware Beta
          AdAware
          Spybot S&D
          CWShredder
          HijackThis
          Avast (I throw that in JUST in case there's no AV app, or it's Norton crapware)
          Firefox (this'll get retired, with Opera 8.5 being free)
          Thunderbird (this, OTOH, will NOT get retired)
COTC\
     Documents for college - I've filled up a 256MB drive with just C++ crap in here
Excel\
     Documents for HS
Random Assorted Junk\
     Self-explanatory, isn't it?
Drivers\
     Duh!

That's a rough outline of what I do, sometimes I add stuff, though...

Convert · Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:18 pm

Flying Fox wrote:
Which drive?

BTW, wouldn't the HT203 with the faster speed and red colour be sexier?

Any and all drives you want to list.

And yeah but I'm too sexy for the HT203. Actually I got the HT202 on sale, otherwise the HT203 would have been my choice.

Thanks to everyone that has contributed thus far, I have already transferred some of the programs you guys suggested/use (like avast, I completely forgot about that :oops:

).

lex-ington · Tue Oct 18, 2005 10:33 pm

music. since my machine at work doesn't have a CD drive. Good for me that the rest of the office is completely clueless about computers except the IT guy - he pretty much leaves me alone.

NeXus^ · Tue Oct 18, 2005 11:00 pm

TWINmos Z4, cos it b da sexc!

(I have the 128mb USB 2.0 one)

BLANG BLANG!

(Currently only has Acdsee partner ed software on it.. exciting!)

Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:27 am

lex-ington wrote:
music. since my machine at work doesn't have a CD drive.

Heh heh... I decided to go for the overkill solution, and stuck a spare 80GB hard drive in one of these. Filled it with MP3s, and took it to work. :wink:

As far as flash drives go... well, I currently have 4:

- First one is a small-ish one, a 64MB Kingston DataTraveler. It has a bootable DOS image on it, and assorted low-level tools. I use it for flashing BIOSes, running Memtest86+ on new mobos, running hard drive diagnostics, etc.

- Second one is a 512MB Crucial Gizmo that I use for carrying personal stuff around.

- Third one is a cheapo SimpleTech one I picked up at the TigerDirect Outlet... this one also has a bootable DOS image on it, plus various Etherboot binaries from ROM-O-Matic. Used for booting diskless Folding@home nodes that don't have built-in PXE netboot capability. (Modify the autoexec.bat file to run the appropriate Etherboot image, plug it into the mobo that needs booting, and power cycle the mobo.)

- Fourth one is a 1GB Memorex memory stick supplied to me by my employer. They have a "no company data may be stored on non-company-owned media" rule. :roll:

So I use this one whenever I bring work home.

VTNC · Wed Oct 19, 2005 12:46 am

SanDisk Titanium 512 <3

Apps:

2xExplorer
AIDA32 EE
FileZilla
Cave Story (game)
Chromatron (game)
Dark Signs (game)
Liero (another game)
Lumines (game also)
Seiklus (again, a game)
GraphEdit
IrfanView
MozBackup
Buncha Nirsoft utilities
Buncha Sysinternals utilities
Nokia Code Calculator
Notepad++
Portable Firefox
Stunnel (for tunneling through annoying, password-snifing workplace firewalls)
VLC media player

Installations:

7-zip
AdAware Personal
ABC
Acrobat Reader 7
BsPlayer
Daemon Tools
Firefox 1.0.7
Flash Player Installer
Irfanview
IZArc
l0pht crack 3
MS Java Uninstaller
Inforapid Search and Replace
Shockwave Installer
Stats2000
ThunderBird 1.0.6
TweakUI Powertoys
Paint.NET
Flurry Screensave

Codecs:

DefilerPak 1.20
Quicktime Alternative
Real Alternative
MS Patch for WMP10 so wmva_sig.txt doesn't keep showing up all the time

Extensions:

Add Bookmark Here
Adsomethingsomething
Configuration Mania
Cutemenus 0.3
DeskCut
Dictionary Search
Diggler
Download Manager Tweak
downThemALL
Focus Last Selected Tab
GMail Notifier
Minimize to Tray
Mouse Gestures (optimoz)
Nuke Anything Enhanced
PDF Download
Resize Search Box
Search Button
Slim Extension List
View Cookies

Yes, I like Firefox

mikehodges2 · Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:28 am

Damn Small Linux (on a 128MB stick). Can't get it to boot though

. Must be retarded.. :oops:

drsauced · Wed Oct 19, 2005 1:53 am

NT 4.0 SP6 high encryption.

Norphy · Wed Oct 19, 2005 2:49 am

Ghost network boot disk with drivers for five different network cards
Various different Windows device drivers
The odd word/excel document
memtest86+
BIOSes for various machines

You know, the usual

NeXus^ · Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:25 am

Norphy wrote:
/snip
memtest86+
\snip

That's a damn good idea

Saves carrying around an annoying floppy with Memtest on it.. USB memtest disk, great idea there Norphy

dragmor · Wed Oct 19, 2005 4:45 am

Ive got a standard 512mb for carrying work files, code in development, graphics, etc

But I also have a Buslink 4GB which boots Win2k3 with Oracle 9i and IIS (HTTP & FTP) and a few other things installed.

paulWTAMU · Wed Oct 19, 2005 5:43 am

I use one (128MB) for backing up my papers, the other (256) for my photos. My external hard drive gets those plus music and other assorted stuff.

Usacomp2k3 · Wed Oct 19, 2005 8:59 am

Don't have one. Don't really have a need for one here at college. *shrug*

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