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Harry Potter
Jul 5, 2012, 9:09:53 AM7/5/12
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I go to a program during the day. There, I'm not allowed to install or download anything on the computers or use flash drives. I am limited to floppies and a CD-RW for all my software. Unfortunately, some of the software I'm using doesn't fit on a floppy uncompressed and require write-access. Both I and the program have WinXP computers, and my mother has a WinVista computer. WinMount could help, but it would have to be installed. I am aware of WinXP's compressed folder, but such is limited. Basically, I need a portable method to compress data on floppies that would treat the data as if it were a drive or directory of its own, with full functionality and without permanent changes or system settings. BTW, I am both working on my own software and bringing in software from home.
John Reiser
Jul 5, 2012, 11:08:47 PM7/5/12
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> ... I'm not allowed to install or download anything on the computers or use flash drives.
> I am limited to floppies and a CD-RW for all my software. ...
> ... WinMount could help, but it would have to be installed. ...
As long as you can run programs from the CD-RW, then
get someone to build you a "command and control" program which spawns
multiple parallel jobs (processes): WinMount (from the CD-RW), COMMAND,
NotePad, etc.
Or, use a VNC viewer (or LogMeIn, or pcAnywhere, etc.) to do all
your work over the 'net, connected to your computer somewhere else.
You might be able to cram tightVNC and its libraries onto
a couple floppies if you cannot execute from the CD-RW.
Or, a new netbook (1GB RAM, some harddrive, 13.6-inch screen)
can be as low as $200; a used netbook under $100, perhaps free.
--
> I am limited to floppies and a CD-RW for all my software. ...
> ... WinMount could help, but it would have to be installed. ...
As long as you can run programs from the CD-RW, then
get someone to build you a "command and control" program which spawns
multiple parallel jobs (processes): WinMount (from the CD-RW), COMMAND,
NotePad, etc.
Or, use a VNC viewer (or LogMeIn, or pcAnywhere, etc.) to do all
your work over the 'net, connected to your computer somewhere else.
You might be able to cram tightVNC and its libraries onto
a couple floppies if you cannot execute from the CD-RW.
Or, a new netbook (1GB RAM, some harddrive, 13.6-inch screen)
can be as low as $200; a used netbook under $100, perhaps free.
--
Harry Potter
Jul 6, 2012, 8:36:26 AM7/6/12
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On Thursday, July 5, 2012 11:08:47 PM UTC-4, John Reiser wrote:
> > ... I'm not allowed to install or download anything on the computers or use flash drives.
> > I am limited to floppies and a CD-RW for all my software. ...
> > ... WinMount could help, but it would have to be installed. ...
>
> As long as you can run programs from the CD-RW, then
> get someone to build you a "command and control" program which spawns
> multiple parallel jobs (processes): WinMount (from the CD-RW), COMMAND,
> NotePad, etc.
>
If WinMount can run from a CD-RW, then I can do that. :) I'll try that at my next opportunity.
> > ... I'm not allowed to install or download anything on the computers or use flash drives.
> > I am limited to floppies and a CD-RW for all my software. ...
> > ... WinMount could help, but it would have to be installed. ...
>
> As long as you can run programs from the CD-RW, then
> get someone to build you a "command and control" program which spawns
> multiple parallel jobs (processes): WinMount (from the CD-RW), COMMAND,
> NotePad, etc.
>
> Or, use a VNC viewer (or LogMeIn, or pcAnywhere, etc.) to do all
> your work over the 'net, connected to your computer somewhere else.
> You might be able to cram tightVNC and its libraries onto
> a couple floppies if you cannot execute from the CD-RW.
>
> Or, a new netbook (1GB RAM, some harddrive, 13.6-inch screen)
> can be as low as $200; a used netbook under $100, perhaps free.
George Johnson
Jul 6, 2012, 11:59:57 PM7/6/12
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"Harry Potter" <rose.j...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:4d4a051a-74d9-40b9...@googlegroups.com...
Ah, GOVERNMENT JOB. The USB ports are locked off or disabled.
You are aware that you can use most free ZIP programs to write
SPAN/SPLIT FILES? Span/Split files are files that are too big for the media,
but are then split into smaller files for easier storage.
I am surprised that you haven't enough space on a CD-RW for most
programming files.
====
Bandizip is Lightweight, Fast, and Free archiving software and it works with
WinZip, 7-Zip, WinRAR and other archive formats.
http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/downloads/
Bandizip Portable: Portable version (can be installed on a CD and ran from a
CD)
http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/downloads/bandizip-portable-en.zip
About Bandizip
1. Packing and Unpacking: Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, 7Z(7z.001), and
EXE(e01)
2. Unpacking Only: RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, ALZ, APK, ARJ, BH, BZ, BZ2,
CAB, EGG, GZ, J2J, JAR, IMG, IPA, ISO, LHA, LZH, LZMA, PMA, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ,
TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WAR, WIM, XZ, and Z
3. Support unicode to display international characters which display for
filenames in archives
4. Bypass the bad compression files automatically by "High Speed Archiving"
function
5. Extract the files to the destination folder directly by "Fast Drag &
Drop" function
6. Create self-extracting file (.EXE) and multi-volume (split) archives
7. Optional archive encryption using ZipCrypto and AES 256
8. Context Menu access including "Preview Archive" function
9. Create or extract multiple zip files simultaneously from windows explorer
10. Free to use at both home and in the office
====
Can you run a printer and install fonts and do you have a decent page
scanner at home?
Dataglyphs are the easiest to program (even a preteen can do it,
Joseph), QR-CODES are not bad for quick & sloppy archiving in the age where
thumbdrives are currently $1 per gigabyte and hard-disks are SATA
hot-pluggable at a cost of $0.0483 per gigabyte. Using Dataglyphs for
Stenography has a lower data-density per inch, but are much more deniable in
a security interrogation.
Types of barcodes (read read read - YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS ALREADY)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
Linear barcodes (list + links)
Matrix (2D) barcodes (list + links)
A matrix code, also termed a 2D barcode or simply a 2D code, is a
two-dimensional way to represent information. It is similar to a linear
(1-dimensional) barcode, but can represent more data per unit area.
FONT - DataGlyph SP
http://www.fontpark.net/en/font/dataglyph-sp/
Using the slash and backslash of the font (like anyone would need a
"font" for this) for the basic dataglyph is the easiest method, "you could
make the little dot lean left to represent a zero, and to the right to
represent a one". If you can not write a program to create a bitmap file to
print out a dataglyph image from the binary file code in about 10 minutes,
then you are not a real programmer. If you cannot write a decoder for
scanned dataglyph images in less than 1 hour then you are truly a joke.
The fact that you are actually not using GOOGLE to find this information
and already fail to know this information is giving me my regular laugh from
this newsgroup. My, my, how the programming communities have fallen into
pathetic levels since Microsoft stopped including Q-Basic with every install
of Windows. At least the Apple ][e computers encouraged a level of
instinctual programming skills to the curious and non-stupid. Now... meh.
So very sad these days.
=====
"DataGlyph" Embedded Digital Data
http://www.tauzero.com/Rob_Tow/DataGlyph.html
Suddenly an idea flashed. It was simple, and elegant - conventional
halftoning is based on little dots - which were usually ellipses of various
sizes, oriented at a 45 degree angle (a subtlety based on the visual
cortex's distribution of angle detectors... angled ellipses are less
perceptually intrusive - except to certain African tribes that grow up in
rounded architectures rather than Western Cartesian architected buildings).
Digital halftoning aped analog halftoning, which was based on optical
screens of repeated patterns - and all the little elliptical dots in a
picture, such as a newspaper picture, always leaned in the same direction.
My insight was under computer control this did not have to be true; you
could make the little dot lean left to represent a zero, and to the right to
represent a one - and that this would be essentially perceptially invisible.
You could put computer data into a picture, hidden from conscious view. This
sort of hidden data in pictures is called "steganography".
At the time, every document printed at PARC had a title page, with two
squares of decorative mid-gray halftone on the bottom. I quickly calulated
that rather than the paltry tens of bits that a UPC barcode could put in the
same area that my scheme could put kilobits. And still look the same quiet
gray, to the eye.
====
Human Errors Fuel Hacking as Test Shows Nothing Stops Idiocy
Jun 27, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-27/human-errors-fuel-hacking-as-test-shows-nothing-prevents-idiocy.html
Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking
lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked
them up, 60 percent plugged the devices into office computers, curious to
see what they contained. If the drive or CD case had an official logo, 90
percent were installed.
"There's no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being
idiots," said Mark Rasch, director of network security and privacy
consulting for Falls Church, Virginia-based Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
====
Data Matrix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Matrix
QR code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
XRen QRCode 2.10
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Miscellaneous/XRen-QRCode.shtml
Can generate QR codes, read QR CODE embedded image files for decoding. Can
also print from application (don't know if it ignores the government
mandated secret printer/computer ID codes as most QR-Coding has a
error-detecting-correcting routine to limit random dot errors).
qrDecoder Portable 0.1.2
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Graphics/qrDecoder-Portable.shtml
=== MORE ON SECRET GOVERNMENT PRINTER CODING ===
Printers
Is Your Printer Spying On You?
https://www.eff.org/issues/printers/
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801663.html
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco consumer
privacy group, said it had cracked the code used in a widely used line of
Xerox printers, an invisible bar code of sorts that contains the serial
number of the printer as well as the date and time a document was printed.
With the Xerox printers, the information appears as a pattern of yellow
dots, each only a millimeter wide and visible only with a magnifying glass
and a blue light.
The EFF said it has identified similar coding on pages printed from nearly
every major printer manufacturer, including Hewlett-Packard Co., though its
team has so far cracked the codes for only one type of Xerox printer.
The U.S. Secret Service acknowledged yesterday that the markings, which are
not visible to the human eye, are there, but it played down the use for
invading privacy.
"It's strictly a countermeasure to prevent illegal activity specific to
counterfeiting," agency spokesman Eric Zahren said. "It's to protect our
currency and to protect people's hard-earned money."
=====
news:4d4a051a-74d9-40b9...@googlegroups.com...
You are aware that you can use most free ZIP programs to write
SPAN/SPLIT FILES? Span/Split files are files that are too big for the media,
but are then split into smaller files for easier storage.
I am surprised that you haven't enough space on a CD-RW for most
programming files.
====
Bandizip is Lightweight, Fast, and Free archiving software and it works with
WinZip, 7-Zip, WinRAR and other archive formats.
http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/downloads/
Bandizip Portable: Portable version (can be installed on a CD and ran from a
CD)
http://www.bandicam.com/bandizip/downloads/bandizip-portable-en.zip
About Bandizip
1. Packing and Unpacking: Zip(z01), ZipX(zx01), TAR, TGZ, 7Z(7z.001), and
EXE(e01)
2. Unpacking Only: RAR(part1.rar, r01), ACE, ALZ, APK, ARJ, BH, BZ, BZ2,
CAB, EGG, GZ, J2J, JAR, IMG, IPA, ISO, LHA, LZH, LZMA, PMA, TBZ, TBZ2, TGZ,
TLZ, TXZ, UDF, WAR, WIM, XZ, and Z
3. Support unicode to display international characters which display for
filenames in archives
4. Bypass the bad compression files automatically by "High Speed Archiving"
function
5. Extract the files to the destination folder directly by "Fast Drag &
Drop" function
6. Create self-extracting file (.EXE) and multi-volume (split) archives
7. Optional archive encryption using ZipCrypto and AES 256
8. Context Menu access including "Preview Archive" function
9. Create or extract multiple zip files simultaneously from windows explorer
10. Free to use at both home and in the office
====
Can you run a printer and install fonts and do you have a decent page
scanner at home?
Dataglyphs are the easiest to program (even a preteen can do it,
Joseph), QR-CODES are not bad for quick & sloppy archiving in the age where
thumbdrives are currently $1 per gigabyte and hard-disks are SATA
hot-pluggable at a cost of $0.0483 per gigabyte. Using Dataglyphs for
Stenography has a lower data-density per inch, but are much more deniable in
a security interrogation.
Types of barcodes (read read read - YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS ALREADY)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barcode
Linear barcodes (list + links)
Matrix (2D) barcodes (list + links)
A matrix code, also termed a 2D barcode or simply a 2D code, is a
two-dimensional way to represent information. It is similar to a linear
(1-dimensional) barcode, but can represent more data per unit area.
FONT - DataGlyph SP
http://www.fontpark.net/en/font/dataglyph-sp/
Using the slash and backslash of the font (like anyone would need a
"font" for this) for the basic dataglyph is the easiest method, "you could
make the little dot lean left to represent a zero, and to the right to
represent a one". If you can not write a program to create a bitmap file to
print out a dataglyph image from the binary file code in about 10 minutes,
then you are not a real programmer. If you cannot write a decoder for
scanned dataglyph images in less than 1 hour then you are truly a joke.
The fact that you are actually not using GOOGLE to find this information
and already fail to know this information is giving me my regular laugh from
this newsgroup. My, my, how the programming communities have fallen into
pathetic levels since Microsoft stopped including Q-Basic with every install
of Windows. At least the Apple ][e computers encouraged a level of
instinctual programming skills to the curious and non-stupid. Now... meh.
So very sad these days.
=====
"DataGlyph" Embedded Digital Data
http://www.tauzero.com/Rob_Tow/DataGlyph.html
Suddenly an idea flashed. It was simple, and elegant - conventional
halftoning is based on little dots - which were usually ellipses of various
sizes, oriented at a 45 degree angle (a subtlety based on the visual
cortex's distribution of angle detectors... angled ellipses are less
perceptually intrusive - except to certain African tribes that grow up in
rounded architectures rather than Western Cartesian architected buildings).
Digital halftoning aped analog halftoning, which was based on optical
screens of repeated patterns - and all the little elliptical dots in a
picture, such as a newspaper picture, always leaned in the same direction.
My insight was under computer control this did not have to be true; you
could make the little dot lean left to represent a zero, and to the right to
represent a one - and that this would be essentially perceptially invisible.
You could put computer data into a picture, hidden from conscious view. This
sort of hidden data in pictures is called "steganography".
At the time, every document printed at PARC had a title page, with two
squares of decorative mid-gray halftone on the bottom. I quickly calulated
that rather than the paltry tens of bits that a UPC barcode could put in the
same area that my scheme could put kilobits. And still look the same quiet
gray, to the eye.
====
Human Errors Fuel Hacking as Test Shows Nothing Stops Idiocy
Jun 27, 2011
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-06-27/human-errors-fuel-hacking-as-test-shows-nothing-prevents-idiocy.html
Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking
lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked
them up, 60 percent plugged the devices into office computers, curious to
see what they contained. If the drive or CD case had an official logo, 90
percent were installed.
"There's no device known to mankind that will prevent people from being
idiots," said Mark Rasch, director of network security and privacy
consulting for Falls Church, Virginia-based Computer Sciences Corp. (CSC)
====
Data Matrix
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_Matrix
QR code
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/QR_Code
XRen QRCode 2.10
http://www.softpedia.com/get/Others/Miscellaneous/XRen-QRCode.shtml
Can generate QR codes, read QR CODE embedded image files for decoding. Can
also print from application (don't know if it ignores the government
mandated secret printer/computer ID codes as most QR-Coding has a
error-detecting-correcting routine to limit random dot errors).
qrDecoder Portable 0.1.2
http://www.softpedia.com/get/PORTABLE-SOFTWARE/Multimedia/Graphics/qrDecoder-Portable.shtml
=== MORE ON SECRET GOVERNMENT PRINTER CODING ===
Printers
Is Your Printer Spying On You?
https://www.eff.org/issues/printers/
DocuColor Tracking Dot Decoding Guide
https://w2.eff.org/Privacy/printers/docucolor/
Sleuths Crack Tracking Code Discovered in Color Printers
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/18/AR2005101801663.html
By Mike Musgrove
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 19, 2005
Yesterday, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, a San Francisco consumer
privacy group, said it had cracked the code used in a widely used line of
Xerox printers, an invisible bar code of sorts that contains the serial
number of the printer as well as the date and time a document was printed.
With the Xerox printers, the information appears as a pattern of yellow
dots, each only a millimeter wide and visible only with a magnifying glass
and a blue light.
The EFF said it has identified similar coding on pages printed from nearly
every major printer manufacturer, including Hewlett-Packard Co., though its
team has so far cracked the codes for only one type of Xerox printer.
The U.S. Secret Service acknowledged yesterday that the markings, which are
not visible to the human eye, are there, but it played down the use for
invading privacy.
"It's strictly a countermeasure to prevent illegal activity specific to
counterfeiting," agency spokesman Eric Zahren said. "It's to protect our
currency and to protect people's hard-earned money."
=====
Harry Potter
Jul 9, 2012, 8:49:33 AM7/9/12
to
On Friday, July 6, 2012 11:59:57 PM UTC-4, George Johnson wrote:
> Ah, GOVERNMENT JOB. The USB ports are locked off or disabled.
> You are aware that you can use most free ZIP programs to write
> SPAN/SPLIT FILES? Span/Split files are files that are too big for the media,
> but are then split into smaller files for easier storage.
> I am surprised that you haven't enough space on a CD-RW for most
> programming files.
>
I have software to split archive files, but that's not the problem. The problem is that I have to access the _whole_ archive file as a folder. I need to be able to work on software >2MB with source code or bring in software and games for the others >2MB. I can put some of the latter on the CD-RW, but the former requires heavy R/W editing, inhibiiting the use of on-the-fly editing. BTW, WinMount probably requires system setting changes (i.e. shell associations) and, as such, may require to be installed. I'm not allowed to do that--otherwise I wouldn't be here.
> Ah, GOVERNMENT JOB. The USB ports are locked off or disabled.
> You are aware that you can use most free ZIP programs to write
> SPAN/SPLIT FILES? Span/Split files are files that are too big for the media,
> but are then split into smaller files for easier storage.
> I am surprised that you haven't enough space on a CD-RW for most
> programming files.
>
George Johnson
Jul 9, 2012, 10:43:57 PM7/9/12
to
news:90a4693f-4f04-49c2...@googlegroups.com...
Well... since you're engaging in either unallowed hijinks or criminal
MOSSAD espionage and don't appear too bright at all (average Jewish IQ is
below 90 when referencing the Israeli testing scores). I guess our business
here is done, Joseph Rose.
Do you hear a knocking at your door?
They seem rather insistent in entering.
MOSSAD espionage and don't appear too bright at all (average Jewish IQ is
below 90 when referencing the Israeli testing scores). I guess our business
here is done, Joseph Rose.
Do you hear a knocking at your door?
They seem rather insistent in entering.
Jim Leonard
Jul 10, 2012, 2:56:21 PM7/10/12
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On Jul 5, 8:09 am, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am limited to floppies and a CD-RW for all my software. Unfortunately, some of the software I'm using doesn't fit on a floppy uncompressed and require write-access.
Your tools fit on a CD and your source fits on a 1.44MB floppy, I'm
> I am limited to floppies and a CD-RW for all my software. Unfortunately, some of the software I'm using doesn't fit on a floppy uncompressed and require write-access.
sure. If something doesn't fit, describe exactly what you're using
and why you think you can't run it from CD. Your tools don't have to
reside on the floppy in order to read/write a configuration file
stored on floppy.
Harry Potter
Jul 11, 2012, 12:55:23 PM7/11/12
to
On Tuesday, July 10, 2012 2:56:21 PM UTC-4, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Your tools fit on a CD and your source fits on a 1.44MB floppy, I'm
> sure.
Most of my tools fit on a CD-RW, and the source of most of my programs fit on a floppy each, but in both cases not all. For example, VBDOS, which is the BASIC interpreter and compiler I use, writes its configuration file to its residing directory upon exit. That's not too bad: I have a work-around. However, one program on which I'm working, MemBank128, although for a legacy system, doesn't fit on a floppy, if only for the large library size.
> If something doesn't fit, describe exactly what you're using
> and why you think you can't run it from CD. Your tools don't have to
BTW, what do I do about games I download for my program? Some can fit on a floppy. Some can be restored on a floppy if the executables are compressed using UPX. Some can work from a CD-ROM. Some are too large to fit on a floppy *and* require write access. Unfortunately, I can't compress data on a floppy other than executable compression, as I'm not allowed to install *anything* on these computers. I thank you for listening.
> Your tools fit on a CD and your source fits on a 1.44MB floppy, I'm
> sure.
Most of my tools fit on a CD-RW, and the source of most of my programs fit on a floppy each, but in both cases not all. For example, VBDOS, which is the BASIC interpreter and compiler I use, writes its configuration file to its residing directory upon exit. That's not too bad: I have a work-around. However, one program on which I'm working, MemBank128, although for a legacy system, doesn't fit on a floppy, if only for the large library size.
> If something doesn't fit, describe exactly what you're using
> and why you think you can't run it from CD. Your tools don't have to
> reside on the floppy in order to read/write a configuration file
> stored on floppy.
The MemBank128 library I mentioned above is a library for cc65 (cross-platform C compiler for 6502-based computers, www.cc65.org) that expands the usable memory under the C128 from 41k to 118k+. Cc65 recently lost its efficient library size, and now, as I had to replace alot of default system modules in favor of the new memory configuration, the new library file is around 1MB by itself, not to mention the source code, test code, example code, etc.
> stored on floppy.
BTW, what do I do about games I download for my program? Some can fit on a floppy. Some can be restored on a floppy if the executables are compressed using UPX. Some can work from a CD-ROM. Some are too large to fit on a floppy *and* require write access. Unfortunately, I can't compress data on a floppy other than executable compression, as I'm not allowed to install *anything* on these computers. I thank you for listening.
Jim Leonard
Jul 11, 2012, 2:48:26 PM7/11/12
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On Jul 11, 11:55 am, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Cc65 recently lost its efficient library size, and now, as I had to replace alot of default system modules in favor of the new memory configuration, the new library file is around 1MB by itself, not to mention the source code, test code, example code, etc.
Is there a reason the library and source/test code can't reside on the
> Cc65 recently lost its efficient library size, and now, as I had to replace alot of default system modules in favor of the new memory configuration, the new library file is around 1MB by itself, not to mention the source code, test code, example code, etc.
CD? You're not modifying it.
> I'm not allowed to install *anything* on these computers.
what you need and is not "installing" anything at all on the computer.
Hopefully you won't argue that USB keys are disallowed. The use of
one is no different than CDs (mass storage) and floppies (ability to
change and copy data to/from the machine). A USB thumbdrive solves
all of your problems.
In fact, what REALLY solves your problem is a USB key running a
portable OS such as Linux. That way, you boot the computer directly
from the USB key and work completely within it, never touching the
computer's built-in hard drive. A quick google using the words
"portable USB windows xp" (without quotes) brings up all sorts of
tutorials if you would rather go the Windows route.
Harry Potter
Jul 12, 2012, 8:52:25 AM7/12/12
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On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 2:48:26 PM UTC-4, Jim Leonard wrote:
> Is there a reason the library and source/test code can't reside on the
> CD? You're not modifying it.
>
Well, the library code *can* be stored on a CD-RW *after* it's completed and used from there but not while creating and debugging the library, which I may need to do later.
> Storing all of your tools and source on a USB thumbdrive gives you
> what you need and is not "installing" anything at all on the computer.
>
I tried to do that--which I'm not supposed to do--but the computer technicians discontinued that so that a flash drive is absolutely unusable. :( Otherwise, I wouldn't be posting this post.
> Hopefully you won't argue that USB keys are disallowed. The use of
> In fact, what REALLY solves your problem is a USB key running a
> portable OS such as Linux. That way, you boot the computer directly
> from the USB key and work completely within it, never touching the
> computer's built-in hard drive. A quick google using the words
> "portable USB windows xp" (without quotes) brings up all sorts of
> Is there a reason the library and source/test code can't reside on the
> CD? You're not modifying it.
>
Well, the library code *can* be stored on a CD-RW *after* it's completed and used from there but not while creating and debugging the library, which I may need to do later.
> Storing all of your tools and source on a USB thumbdrive gives you
>
I tried to do that--which I'm not supposed to do--but the computer technicians discontinued that so that a flash drive is absolutely unusable. :( Otherwise, I wouldn't be posting this post.
> Hopefully you won't argue that USB keys are disallowed. The use of
> one is no different than CDs (mass storage) and floppies (ability to
> change and copy data to/from the machine). A USB thumbdrive solves
> all of your problems.
>
As I just said, it is.
> change and copy data to/from the machine). A USB thumbdrive solves
> all of your problems.
>
> In fact, what REALLY solves your problem is a USB key running a
> portable OS such as Linux. That way, you boot the computer directly
> from the USB key and work completely within it, never touching the
> "portable USB windows xp" (without quotes) brings up all sorts of
> tutorials if you would rather go the Windows route.
That would be a good idea, but, even if I *could* use a flash drive, I'd probably be restricted from that as well. :( BTW, where can I download Linux or some other portable OS?
Jim Leonard
Jul 12, 2012, 2:05:59 PM7/12/12
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On Jul 12, 7:52 am, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, the library code *can* be stored on a CD-RW *after* it's completed and used from there but not while creating and debugging the library, which I may need to do later.
Ah, sorry. It wasn't clear to me that you were *writing* the library
> Well, the library code *can* be stored on a CD-RW *after* it's completed and used from there but not while creating and debugging the library, which I may need to do later.
code. I thought you were merely using/linking it.
> I tried to do that--which I'm not supposed to do--but the computer technicians discontinued that so that a flash drive is absolutely unusable. :( Otherwise, I wouldn't be posting this post.
> BTW, where can I download Linux or some other portable OS?
You have an interesting problem. There is no built-in Windows XP
floppy disk compression that you can use, nor any that you could
install even if you were allowed, so it seems you are out of luck. I
was about to suggest something ludicrously complicated, like creating
a VMware or VirtualBox session that boots Windows98 which was the last
version to support floppy disk compression IIRC, but then I realized
you won't be able to mount the image read/write.
There used to be various UDF drivers that would allow you to use a DVD-
RW or CD-RW as a "giant floppy disk", like a very slow hard drive, but
I don't know if there are freeware editions of these (Nero used to
call it InCD). These prepare a disc which also includes a small
program on the media to run in order to enable the functionality --
not sure if your sysadmins would consider that "installing" a program.
It sounds like you'll just need to adjust your habits. When you're
using these computers, you'll just have to edit source code, and not
actually try to compile or do anything with it until you get home.
Harry Potter
Jul 13, 2012, 9:00:30 AM7/13/12
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On Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:05:59 PM UTC-4, Jim Leonard wrote:
> On Jul 12, 7:52 am, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well, the library code *can* be stored on a CD-RW *after* it's completed and used from there but not while creating and debugging the library, which I may need to do later.
>
> Ah, sorry. It wasn't clear to me that you were *writing* the library
>
> Sorry^2. So, they've disabled USB on the machines. Hm.
>
> > BTW, where can I download Linux or some other portable OS?
>
> Well, googling for "portable linux OS" is probably a good start.
>
Even if I *could* do that, it would be incompatible with the *other*
WinXP/Vista computers I'm using.
> There used to be various UDF drivers that would allow you to use a DVD-
> RW or CD-RW as a "giant floppy disk", like a very slow hard drive, but
> I don't know if there are freeware editions of these (Nero used to
>
Maybe I'll ask.
> It sounds like you'll just need to adjust your habits. When you're
> using these computers, you'll just have to edit source code, and not
> On Jul 12, 7:52 am, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Well, the library code *can* be stored on a CD-RW *after* it's completed and used from there but not while creating and debugging the library, which I may need to do later.
>
> Ah, sorry. It wasn't clear to me that you were *writing* the library
> code. I thought you were merely using/linking it.
>
> > I tried to do that--which I'm not supposed to do--but the computer technicians discontinued that so that a flash drive is absolutely unusable. :( Otherwise, I wouldn't be posting this post.
>
>
> Sorry^2. So, they've disabled USB on the machines. Hm.
>
> > BTW, where can I download Linux or some other portable OS?
>
> Well, googling for "portable linux OS" is probably a good start.
>
> You have an interesting problem. There is no built-in Windows XP
> floppy disk compression that you can use, nor any that you could
> install even if you were allowed, so it seems you are out of luck. I
> was about to suggest something ludicrously complicated, like creating
> a VMware or VirtualBox session that boots Windows98 which was the last
> version to support floppy disk compression IIRC, but then I realized
> you won't be able to mount the image read/write.
> You have an interesting problem. There is no built-in Windows XP
> floppy disk compression that you can use, nor any that you could
> install even if you were allowed, so it seems you are out of luck. I
> was about to suggest something ludicrously complicated, like creating
> a VMware or VirtualBox session that boots Windows98 which was the last
> version to support floppy disk compression IIRC, but then I realized
>
Even if I *could* do that, it would be incompatible with the *other*
WinXP/Vista computers I'm using.
> There used to be various UDF drivers that would allow you to use a DVD-
> I don't know if there are freeware editions of these (Nero used to
> call it InCD). These prepare a disc which also includes a small
> program on the media to run in order to enable the functionality --
> not sure if your sysadmins would consider that "installing" a program.
> program on the media to run in order to enable the functionality --
>
Maybe I'll ask.
> It sounds like you'll just need to adjust your habits. When you're
> using these computers, you'll just have to edit source code, and not
> actually try to compile or do anything with it until you get home.
I was trying to create my own compression system in part to solve the problem, but when I asked if I could use it, I was told "No." Some of my code is still small enough to fit on a floppy, so I can still do *something*.
Harry Potter
Jul 13, 2012, 12:15:35 PM7/13/12
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On Friday, July 13, 2012 9:00:30 AM UTC-4, Harry Potter wrote:
> On Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:05:59 PM UTC-4, Jim Leonard wrote:
>
> > There used to be various UDF drivers that would allow you to use a DVD-
> On Thursday, July 12, 2012 2:05:59 PM UTC-4, Jim Leonard wrote:
>
> > RW or CD-RW as a &quot;giant floppy disk&quot;, like a very slow hard drive, but
> > I don&#39;t know if there are freeware editions of these (Nero used to
> > call it InCD). These prepare a disc which also includes a small
> > program on the media to run in order to enable the functionality --
> > not sure if your sysadmins would consider that &quot;installing&quot; a program.
> >
>
> Maybe I'll ask.
>
The verdict was no.
Jim Leonard
Jul 17, 2012, 5:23:00 PM7/17/12
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On Jul 13, 11:15 am, Harry Potter <rose.josep...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Maybe I'll ask.
>
> The verdict was no.
I think your biggest mistake was asking, honestly.
> > Maybe I'll ask.
>
> The verdict was no.
I think your biggest mistake was asking, honestly.
Harry Potter
Jul 18, 2012, 8:49:54 AM7/18/12
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On Tuesday, July 17, 2012 5:23:00 PM UTC-4, Jim Leonard wrote:
> I think your biggest mistake was asking, honestly.
I guess I could just do it, but what if I get caught?
> I think your biggest mistake was asking, honestly.
Jim Leonard
Jul 20, 2012, 4:19:00 PM7/20/12
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But those are personal details best left out of a compression
newsgroup.
My feeling is, if they're already letting you use compilers and
editors and other tools, and testing the software that you're writing,
they've already given you permission to run whatever you like as long
as it doesn't permanently install itself on the machine. That should
expand your options. For example, run a program that creates a RAM
disk, decompress all your stuff there, edit, hope that the electricity
doesn't give out, and then compress/archive back to floppies when
you're done for the day. Nothing gets permanently installed on the
machine.
Harry Potter
Jul 23, 2012, 9:49:00 AM7/23/12
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On Friday, July 20, 2012 4:19:00 PM UTC-4, Jim Leonard wrote:
> My feeling is, if they're already letting you use compilers and
> editors and other tools, and testing the software that you're writing,
> they've already given you permission to run whatever you like as long
> as it doesn't permanently install itself on the machine. That should
> you're done for the day. Nothing gets permanently installed on the
> machine.
You're right. I *should* just do that. Maybe I will. Unfotunately, it would add an unnecessary level of complexity to code-editing (i.e. 5-10 minutes to every session involving such code-editing). Also, it wouldn't help anybody who wants to play the games I bring in from the internet much.
> My feeling is, if they're already letting you use compilers and
> editors and other tools, and testing the software that you're writing,
> they've already given you permission to run whatever you like as long
> as it doesn't permanently install itself on the machine. That should
> expand your options. For example, run a program that creates a RAM
> disk, decompress all your stuff there, edit, hope that the electricity
> doesn't give out, and then compress/archive back to floppies when
> disk, decompress all your stuff there, edit, hope that the electricity
> you're done for the day. Nothing gets permanently installed on the
> machine.
You're right. I *should* just do that. Maybe I will. Unfotunately, it would add an unnecessary level of complexity to code-editing (i.e. 5-10 minutes to every session involving such code-editing). Also, it wouldn't help anybody who wants to play the games I bring in from the internet much.
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