“If you have to travel, whether its out of your cubicle, out of your home, or out of the country, you should do your best to make your new surroundings as comfortable as possible. While so many things are out of your hands, one thing you can do to make your travels easier is to bring your favorite programs with you. To do this, all the things you will need are: a USB flash drive (practically any size) and a few minutes. When you get to your destination you will simply need a Windows computer, something which can be found in almost any library, office, hotel, or internet cafe anywhere in the world.”
I know that in my daily office needs, I rarely need to fire up a bittorrnet client.
Using Opera will give you a decent BitTorrent client, an unbeatable browser, and a best-in-class mail client in much less space than either Firefox or Thunderbird, let alone both. Admittedly uTorrent is a much better BitTorrent client, but as posted above, you aren’t going to be making heavy use of BT in the USB stick scenario.
Browser: ELinks/0.10.5 (textmode; OpenBSD 3.9 i386; 80×48-3)
I agree with you, Opera is a very good browser, better in my opinion than firefox.
I noticed you’re using ELinks!! How cool is that????
Great browser for everything…..
…..except saving pages <as web page> which I have sometimes to do. Every other browser packages the associated files neatly in a directory (even Konqueror – in its own inimitable way), but Opera just splatters them all over the download directory. (yeah – I know – you can create a directory in advance for each page – but life’s too short)
Makes them very messy to copy or delete.
If I were to come across a computer in an air port lounge, hotel or other such public space, and it were not locked down to prevent use of external drives and non-whitelisted applications I would not consider using it for anything other than browsing.
Definitaly no on-line transactional stuff. No way would I give it access to any data on a USB drive.
PCs in these types of space are notorious for been host to malware of all types, I would always assume they are comprimised. Using firefox is no protection against a key stroke logger…
Okay so maybe this is a shameless plug, but I came across this site a few months ago, and helped me a lot:
http://www.portablefreeware.com
It’s basically a directory of free (some as in beer others as in speech/beer) software which is all suitable for your memory stick/portable hd.
Gaim would do it.