What's on Your USB Pen Drive? 172
gmhowell asks: "With the popularity of USB pen drives, I've thought it time to join the crowd and get one. But I'm curious as to what is so important that you should always have a copy. Clearly PuTTY or your favorite SSH client is important. Perhaps with some keys. But what else? A copy of your browser cookies? MP3s? Pictures? What other software is smart enough to run from a portable medium without need for an installation? (Yup, MAME and z26 seem like likely candidates)."
Cradle of Filth (Score:2, Interesting)
And a few PGP keys.
Nice.
Password Safe (Score:4, Interesting)
I now store my password safe database on my pen drive and just plug it into a USB slot when I need it--since I'm one of those geeks with a keychain equivalent to George's Wallet (Seinfeld)--it's always with me wherever I am.
I also store various utilities that I use from day-to-day, and made it bootable so that I can boot from it on ailing workstations when I need to.
If I had one... (Score:2, Interesting)
Discount on Dell USB drive (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Storage or transportation? (Score:3, Interesting)
CVS (Score:3, Interesting)
I also reserve about 30MB for a FAT partition; file transfers between work and my connectionless old HP Vectra.
Everything that you might want immediately. (Score:4, Interesting)
1. Important documents. Mostly my poetry and fiction writing.
2. Funny little pictures I find on the net. I might want to show them to someone.
3. My irc software (mirc, in this case)
4. My Firebird and Thunderbird profiles. Finally, roaming profiles!
5. Copies of Firebird and Thunderbird. (so if I'm on a dialup computer, it doesn't take me very long to get up and running.
6. Backups of important files from both home and work. Just in case I lose the original, or need that file.
Very useful things, for the roaming profile alone.
i use it for every damn thing. (Score:3, Interesting)
Work: Its fantastic for transferring/working with hughe documents and mailing lists the you dont want to put up on the network, also its fantastic for transferring peoples slightly outsized power point presentations and whatnot from their laptops, to the computer of the person theyre workig with, especially when its a personal laptop with no way of connecting to the netowrk.
Essentially, i use it for anything that wont fit on a floppy, or anything i want to have with me on a moments notice. I think theyre the greatist thing since sliced bread.
Useful Nuggets (Score:2, Interesting)
1) compression tools
2) encryption tools
3) a few graphic tools
4) secure file deletion tools
5) tiny web server
6) tiny ftp server
7) tiny irc server
8) tiny irc client
9) tiny personal firewall
10) hex editor
11) unix commands for DOS
12) misc other stuff
After all that I still had 44mb to work with. I threw all the scripts I'd written, a few priceless pics, a couple mp3s, and I still have 30mb to go.