Slowly Increasing my Technological Dominance of The Situation

[andrewducker]

Having tried a couple of different methods of carrying my state around with me I've settled on PortableApps versions of Thunderbird and Firefox. I really wanted to carry around a VM of Ubuntu, but what with everyone I know having USB 1.1 connectors on their PCs (making it very slow) and Ubuntu over VMWare not being able to hibernate (meaning it had to boot from scratch every time), it took 5-10 minutes from plugging in the USB stick to having my email. Which sucked.

The portableapps thunderbird takes about 7 seconds to load, which is much better. And with Foxmarks keeping my bookmarks in synch and ScheduleWorld keeping my Thunderbird contacts synchronised everything should be the same as it is at home. Oh - I've also got TabMix Plus and AdBlockPlus installed as well, obviously.

Oh well - eventually I'll have an excuse to carry around a linux distribution, but apparently not this week.

Comments

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

Is it not possible to save the state of a VMWare VM from VMWare rather than having to have the guest OS do it itself? I haven't used VMWare in a while, so I may be misremembering...

[matgb]

Gmail? That's what I switched to, not going back to a client now. Although it does support IMAP now.

[channelpenguin.livejournal.com]

You, monsieur Ducker, are a big fat geek!! (but we love you that way!)