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   From: alexander koryagin    
      
   Hi, Paul Quinn!   
   I read your message from 04.05.2014 21:24   
      
     ak>> I use Thunderbird mail program, and I set up its folders at my   
     ak>> movable USB driver. So, I can read/write as from my home computer   
     ak>> as well as from my office computer, and my messages are stored in   
     ak>> one place.   
      
     PQ> So do I, on two PCs: one on my 'office' desktop under the house and   
     PQ> another on a netbook in my daughter's room (recall we spoke about   
     PQ> the unclean table). Even though the netbook has two boot options   
     PQ> already for different Linux versions, I use a Linux USB boot stick   
     PQ> with saved configurations on it for six different PCs. I'm toying   
     PQ> with the idea of creating the user 'home' directory on a separate   
     PQ> partition on the USB, so that things like Thunderbird's directory   
     PQ> structure could be shared by the various boot configurations. This   
     PQ> is something easily done in a Linux environment.   
      
   Actually is is easy to do in Windows, too. The main thing you should    
   care of is that your disk (which you created from that "home" partition)    
   shall be mounted in constant position (for instance "E" for all windows    
   computers. In windows you can change disk letters as you wish.   
      
     PQ> For Windows, you might like to checkout 'Portable Apps' (via your   
     PQ> favourite search engine). They have the same notion, where you can   
     PQ> take your favourite Windows environment to any PC. :) I think it's   
     PQ> *free* and worth checking.   
      
   I used some "portable" applications, and I didn't have good experience.    
   The main feature of a portable program is that such an application    
   creates in windows register a temporary keys, and it removes them after    
   termination. But it means that some  settings you have done during your    
   work will be lost after the program exit. It is annoying.   
      
   There is not a problem to install a not portable program twice and set    
   up one common directory on flash drive. Such a problem (which I had    
   mention above, telling of Thunderbird and server name) is very rare.   
      
     ak>> You know, it is May holidays in Russia now.   
     PQ> It's nice to know but I don't know what to do with the information.   
     PQ> [giggle]   
      
   Well, it explained why I didn't connect to your server from my office    
   computer, which was tuned well. ;)   
      
   Bye, Paul!   
   Alexander Koryagin   
   fido7.english-tutor 2014   
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