[OTR-users] OTR on USB flash drive

Shatadal shatadal at vfemail.net
Tue Aug 30 03:46:38 EDT 2005


CLAY SHENTRUP wrote:
> Gaim is automatically going to put it's settings in some path relative
> to its location.  To have it use the key on the flash drive, I'd think
> you'd actually have to store it on the drive, or at least run it from
> there (possibly as a sym link to a real exe).  You could probably even
> put the bins for different platfroms (linux, windows, etc.) on the flash
> drive and run it from the drive on whatever system you plug it into.
> 
> Maybe someone else can come up with something better, but this is all I
> can think of.

Does that mean I can install OTR for windows directly onto the flash
drive and then configure gaim (also on the flash drive) to use this
particular OTR plugin (as explained by Adam Zimmermann on the website)?

> 
> Clay
> 
> 
> "Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political
> costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The
> coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other
> allies pulling out as well. Exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the
> precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we
> gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly
> hostile land."
> 
> -- From "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam"
> by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998
> 
> ----- Original message -----
> From: "Shatadal" <shatadal at vfemail.net>
> To: otr-users at lists.cypherpunks.ca
> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 00:57:31 -0500
> Subject: [OTR-users] OTR on USB
> 
> Can anybody instruct me (or point to instructions) on how to install OTR
> for gaim on a USB flash drive?
> 
> Thanks.
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