[Cialug] portable USB app's challenge

[Claus]

Just a heads up.  I encountered an Internet Cafe whose computers were 
all infected with viruses and what not.  Since I had my own laptop (with 
AV) this wasn't a problem since I just unplugged their computer and used 
the cable with my laptop.  Also I found that lot of places offer 
wireless access but no computers.

What I'm saying is that I'd recommend lugging a laptop around, 
especially if she requires regular Internet access.

As far as apps recommendation, I would go with something service based. 
  Flickr, SmugMug, etc all have good web based upload capabilities and 
some basic editing capabilities.  3rd party service sounds good because 
on the road there won't be anybody the help her if something doesn't 
work on her USB drive.  And it's fairly simple to use.

Of course I could be totally off with my recommendations, since I don't 
know her needs.
   Claus

On 5/15/2007 5:39 PM, LancePickett00 wrote:
> Hi Guys, it's been a while, but I use to live in DM and visited many of your meetings.  My job ended and I moved to NM.  I've never un-subbed from the list, since it's so  useful.
> 
> Anyhow, I have a friend who will be traveling around the world, and using mostly internet cafe, etc.  for most of her  communication and photography. That probably means multiple OS's (Windoze, Nix, Live-CD's, Mac), in use. 
> 
> I figured using an SD card inserted to a Mobile USB  SD/Reader/Writer would work.  I have been using U3 programs, some being  cross-platform, (Firefox,  Gimp, NVu, J-album, FileZilla etc). 
> 
> My question is, how do some of the different NIX's handle USB drives?  For example, one night at a DM-LUG meeting we put Mandrake on my laptop.  It's never been able to see the USB drives (or my wifi nic),  so I still spend a lot of time in 'Doze land.  Ubuntu seems to have similar issues too, but that's another story.
> 
> Does anyone have some  first-hand knowledge on the above app's working on different distro's?  Or,   any thoughts on what to use to clean up, photo's, put them in to web pages, write about them and upload to  wherever, keeping in mind doing it from a thumb drive via internet cafe's?
> 
> She is not very computer savvy,  so the KISS principle  should be employed here. 
> Thanks
> Lance
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