Second Life on a Flash Drive
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Lynyrd Weatherwax
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02-09-2009 16:08
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Briana Dawson
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02-09-2009 16:15
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Amaranthim Talon
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02-09-2009 16:19
Nor I- I have SL on a flash drive and the times i do go in from work i run it thru there- then meticulously go back and clean up the left overs. This wd be hand - Wonder if it works? Feedback if an one tries it 
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Raudf Fox
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02-09-2009 16:21
Hmmm.. Never tried it, but I'd think it'd run slower than just running it from the hard drive?
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LittleMe Jewell
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02-09-2009 16:48
We did have a thread about this -- last fall I think -- and someone did get it to work. I have been meaning to give it a try and just haven't yet.
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LittleMe Jewell
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02-09-2009 16:49
From: Raudf Fox Hmmm.. Never tried it, but I'd think it'd run slower than just running it from the hard drive? Yeah, the issue is for folks that want to try and pop in to SL from a work computer or some other computer where they do not want to install it. It wouldn't help me as we have such tight blocking in place, I could not even connect.
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Brann Georgia
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02-09-2009 18:36
I have SL on a flash drive that I use at work. Gets through the firewall without any trouble. I don't bother with the batch file. (just running it directly means that you get newbie popups every time)
I don't use it a lot because the graphics cards on most of our workstations don't have the video cards to run SL properly.
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LittleMe Jewell
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02-09-2009 18:39
From: Brann Georgia I have SL on a flash drive that I use at work. Gets through the firewall without any trouble. I don't bother with the batch file. (just running it directly means that you get newbie popups every time)
I don't use it a lot because the graphics cards on most of our workstations don't have the video cards to run SL properly. Can you get to the SL forums from work? I cannot get to anything related to SL from work. If I really decide I need to get into SL during the day, I remote to my home PC and log in -- performance going thru that channel can't be much worse than SL on a flash drive running on a PC at work that barely has enough memory to do my day to day job.
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Brann Georgia
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02-09-2009 19:16
Lil We don't have any web sites blocked at work. Since it's a college, doing so would cause all sorts of mayhem involving freedom of speech and access to information, no matter how irrelevant We have an "acceptable use policy" which prohibits things like creating racist or obscene web sites on our servers, and having things on your screen that'd offend the person sitting next to you. Something like that. Besides, accessing SL and its forums, even the occasional Flickr site, is part of my job
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LittleMe Jewell
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02-09-2009 19:24
From: Brann Georgia Besides, accessing SL and its forums, even the occasional Flickr site, is part of my job Oh yeah - I forgot about that part. /me pouts
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Tod69 Talamasca
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02-09-2009 20:37
From: LittleMe Jewell Oh yeah - I forgot about that part.
/me pouts Just be glad your work place allows you to use flash drives. I've been to a few that disallow it. Besides, your sys admins know everywhere you're going online, what you're plugging in, and all sorts of things. 
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Fifafan Schoonhoven
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02-09-2009 23:06
even if I could run it off a flash drive, big brother can monitor the bandwith and know i'm up to nothing that would contribute to what I'm supposed to accomplish.
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Lynyrd Weatherwax
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02-10-2009 03:22
I was thinking more along the lines of using this to check a new computer purchase, to determine how it would handle SL. My thinking is that it would be very handy for that.
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HoneyBear Lilliehook
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02-10-2009 07:06
I have SL on a flash drive. I use it to access SL from work, where we're not allowed to download anything. It does drop a cache folder out on the hard drive, I believe. And yes, it does run slower than usual. The host computer has to be capable of running SL.
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Eyerocker Picket
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02-10-2009 09:04
This does work on a flash drive as I have been using a very comparable method for some time on my 8gb thumb. Performance does suffer a bit as information is gathered from the thumb drive instead of your hard drive. The slight slowdown in performance to me is acceptable. It only works with the main client and not the RC or other open source clients as the bat file on the link from the OP is setup to execute/run the file secondlife.exe. There is also a non graphical interface alternative I use if I just need to chat and that is Metabolt. It will run SL on old computers that will not run the full client.  |
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Bhakta Thor
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SL on Flash
02-10-2009 10:46
From: HoneyBear Lilliehook I have SL on a flash drive. I use it to access SL from work, where we're not allowed to download anything. It does drop a cache folder out on the hard drive, I believe. And yes, it does run slower than usual. The host computer has to be capable of running SL. It works also in my office. The problem is that it leaves files on the system drives, it is not contained on the thumb drive. I look every once in awhile for a U3 version of SL that will run entirely on the Flash Drive, but so far ...nada. Bhakta |
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LittleMe Jewell
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02-10-2009 19:21
From: Bhakta Thor It works also in my office. The problem is that it leaves files on the system drives, it is not contained on the thumb drive. I look every once in awhile for a U3 version of SL that will run entirely on the Flash Drive, but so far ...nada.
Bhakta The link in the OP will tell you how to run it from your flash drive so that it cleans up those files automatically.
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
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Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
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LittleMe Jewell
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02-10-2009 19:22
From: Tod69 Talamasca Besides, your sys admins know everywhere you're going online, what you're plugging in, and all sorts of things. Tis why I use the browser to log back to my home computer if I want to access anything they might not approve of. Hell, I had to get special permission to be able to click the "translate this page" link in google because "when you are translating pages, it does not properly tell us what you are viewing" -- so Big Brother cannot watch as easily.
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Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?
~Mark Twain~
Optimism is denial, so face the facts and move on.
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Bhakta Thor
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02-10-2009 21:04
From: LittleMe Jewell The link in the OP will tell you how to run it from your flash drive so that it cleans up those files automatically. What do you mean, I do not understand? What is OP? Bhakta |
