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Ask YC: What do you keep on your USB flash drive?
I finally broke down and got a 4GB USB Flash Drive. Since I'm a little late to the game, I was wondering how all of you have yours set up?
My own machines all run Linux or OS X, but I occasionally use other peoples Windows machines, so I have several versions of a lot of these binaries.
I only keep a few useful utilities unencrypted on the drive (PuTTY, TrueCrypt, Firefox, Filezilla, packet sniffer, etc). I then have all my personal files (documents, firefox profile, ssh/gpg keys, etc) in an encrypted Truecrypt file. I also have a simple script set up to sync my personal files with my SVN repo when I plug the USB drive into my laptop.
Anything major I'm missing, or that you've found useful?
- Herring 18y agoI used to have one like yours. All set up with many environments zipped up & ready to extract. I vaguely remember writing batch scripts (yukk) to automate 7-zip's encryption for a locked up computer that didn't allow truecrypt. In the end it just wasn't worth it. However long I worked on it, it just didn't compare to having my own laptop. These days I just use my USB drive for transferring documents.
- smanek 18y agoFair point. What do you think of keeping some sort of virtual machine image/player on the flash stick (qemu?). That way, you effectively get your own computer where ever you go ...
- kamme 18y agoI'm in the same boat as you, I run Linux, my girlfriend OSX and friends/parents have windows boxes. I started with portable firefox for both OSX and windows. Same for putty, ftp client, etc... But in the end I realised all I had on there was for online use. So instead of using all those programs, I just put portable firefox on it and added some extentions, like fireftp for ftp and sites like google notebook, meebo. Now all the other things that are on there are a couple of files (mp3, txt snippets), firefox portable and qemu with a basic linux install.