Usb Thumbstick

At work I had to get thumbdrives for the sales people. After looking at a bunch and seeing how cheap they were, I decided to buy my own.

Upon recieving it I mounted it up and deleted all the files and directories that came on it. Made a few new directories and filled them with portable applications that will aide in troubleshooting. I also put on a bunch of stuff so that if I get stuck on a windows box somewhere I can at least use putty and firefox…among others.

One thing I thought would be real slick would be to put the linux version of XAMPP on there (possibly the windows one too, and then have them share a docroot). This way I could carry around projects I am working on and pop them on anyone’s PC and then fire up a browser and show it to them. Alas the linux one relies on a bunch of symlinks and hardcoded paths (that expect to find themselves in /opt). So…I have begun the long slow process of porting XAMPP to run on a thumbstick. I don’t know if it will work ultimately, but after having browsed through it all, it seems pretty straight forward. If I get it accomplished, I will release the code here…either as a whole package or at least as a diff with instructions to patch your install.