Preparing for my upcoming journey to the mideast I've purchase a 2 Gig bug. Flash drive. For some reason people in my unit have always referred to flash drives as "bugs". I think it's a cool nick name so bug it is. Anyways, I bought a 2 gig bug and it arrived today. A month or so ago I picked up a Maximum PC magazine that referred to a portable Firefox that you run on any PC from the bug. So I finally go to download it and find much more portable goodness. Portable versions of OpenOfficeOrg (big fan of the regular), Sunbird, Thunderbird, and NVU (the latter three I've never used). So I'm downloading them all to my bug. I'll let you know how much of my two gigs is eaten up by these and how well they run on my restrictive government computer tomorrow when I get the chance.

Neat stuff!

I usually call them "USB jumpsticks" or something like that.

I think 2GB will suit anyone quite well.

I carry a 20 GB SmarDisk Firefly. I love it.

That Firefly looks pretty sweet. Do any of you know of larger (as in disk space) alternatives that, like the firefly, don't require seperate power adapters or drivers?

I call them jumpdrives.

I carry portable firefox, spyware apps, and computer pranks on my 128MB.

I Actually have 3 128MB drives

Well, I have six portable programs on my bug now. Two are OpenOfficeOrg, one is a beta so I have both incase the beta proves unstable. Anyway, 420 MB or roughly a quarter of the space. If some of them seem unuseful to me I will probably delete them. For now I'll see how they run on the Army laptop tomorrow.

You should get the Firefly, and get Firefly on the Firefly, then you'd have a conundrum of epic proportions.