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I found Heytell first and spread it to all my frie...

2011-07-26T13:42:44.171-04:00

I found Heytell first and spread it to all my friends that liked, and after that I found the talkbox.

As you said, I agree with all the interface and about being easier to add friends in talkbox. But still was hard to make my friends change from heytell to talkbox.
Both are good, but I liked that talkbox offered one thing for free, that in heytell you must buy.

The group conversation.
By now. I keep both app in my android and I'll keep testing then

great comparion ;)

cya
Greetings from Brazil

Any way you guys can make that bottom button a bit...

2011-01-24T10:54:18.630-05:00

Any way you guys can make that bottom button a bit bigger in a future build?

Hi Lord Ryan Thanks for the comprehensive compari...

2011-01-24T00:20:39.198-05:00

Hi Lord Ryan

Thanks for the comprehensive comparison and we appreciate much your detailed study of TalkBox! Though The Queen didn't choose us at the end, we're indeed flattered.

Just some more information for your reference, we built TalkBox with an international audience in mind so next time when you want to do voice messaging with your friends, I hope we will be the first that comes to your mind because as far as we've tried, there is territorial limitation for similar apps.

Best regards,
TalkBox Team
TalkBox Username: TalkBoxApp

I can't get this to work!

2009-05-18T19:16:48.819-04:00

I can't get this to work!

Nice post !!!

2009-02-18T01:13:00.000-05:00

Nice post !!!

Hi, well I am a newbie in the Linux world. Did eve...

2008-03-07T01:55:00.000-05:00

Hi, well I am a newbie in the Linux world. Did everything the tutorial said and it worked fine, but when I try to boot from my USB jump drive now, my Toshiba Laptop says "This is not a bootable disk. Please insert a bootable floppy . . .
Any suggestions what I could do?
Thanks, Chris

Thanks for the nice tutorial!

2007-09-04T13:59:00.000-04:00

Thanks for the nice tutorial!

Marc,I may have found the issue on persistence (at...

2007-05-25T19:47:00.000-04:00

Marc,

I may have found the issue on persistence (at least for me) Ubuntu "Feisty" has a persistence bug -- it doesn't work.

see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/casper/+bug/84591
for more details.

Robert

Anonymous,I had the same trouble with with a missi...

2007-05-25T19:30:00.000-04:00

Anonymous,

I had the same trouble with with a missing operating system. Go back to the previous post that references the althack.com instructions. I followed their instructions to format the jump drive with the HP Utility. Skip the formatting and partition instructions listed here.
Then finish with Ryan's directions to:
2) Copy the files and folders as described on this blog
3) Go back to althack.com and run the syslinux utility as described.
4) THen Change the isolinux.cfg file to syslinux.cfg with the text included in this blog.
And it finally worked. BTW - I installed UNBUNTU 7.04 on a PNY 2GB drive using the live CD image

Only issue is my system does not retain changes either. Anyone know if it's related to file permissions from copying off a CD -- or perhaps because I do not have a separate partition on my flash drive?

Robert

I have followed the instructions 3 or 4 times now ...

2007-05-06T16:07:00.000-04:00

I have followed the instructions 3 or 4 times now and it says Missing Operating System on boot. Any idea if there is somewhere I can download the exact files to put on the usb stick that have allready been tried?

Cheers Guys

Hi,Nice instructions. My USB key boots great. I se...

2007-04-20T15:55:00.000-04:00

Hi,

Nice instructions. My USB key boots great. I select Persistent mode, but the changes (configuration and others) doesn't seem to be saved on my USB key, from one time to the other.

Email: marc.lafontaine@servicecanada.gc.ca

Please Help !

Hey, i have another question, sorry, I was wonder...

2007-03-25T22:19:00.000-04:00

Hey, i have another question, sorry, I was wondering, I always hear about corrupt files on USB Drives, and I'm thinking, "Ok, corrupt files not good for OS..." have you had any trouble with files becoming corrupt? I just wanna make sure this thing is feasable before i try it. thanks!

Hey, just wondering, would it be possible to dua...

2007-03-25T20:36:00.000-04:00

Hey, just wondering, would it be possible to dual-boot two distros on one flash drive?
Like maybe Ubuntu, and DSL? DSL is only like 51Mb. This project is something that i would like to try, just getting the info is hard, haha!

Just wanted to make it clear that CroosLoop is not...

2007-03-21T14:09:00.000-04:00

Just wanted to make it clear that CroosLoop is not Open Source. No where do I mention that CrossLoop is similar to Open Source or is Open Source. I would have liked it if CrossLoop would have made it open source I guess they would have been better able to develop and grow that way. They did have some ambiguity in their license and usage of Tight VNC with their proprietary software though which I think they worked at.

great pick..if you get a chance stop by and check ...

2007-03-14T08:29:00.000-04:00

great pick..if you get a chance stop by and check out my blog and vote.
www.guidetoahappymarriage.blogspot.com

I followed the tutorial several times and could no...

2007-03-08T18:04:00.000-05:00

I followed the tutorial several times and could not get it to work. I did some searching on the web and tried a few things out and finally got it to work.

For all those who are getting something like "Missing operating system" when you try to boot from the USB flash drive try the following.

-Install everything in this tuturial.
- Go to http://www.althack.com/2006/03/10/how-to-run-linux-on-a-usb-drive/
- use the link to download syslinux
- and only follow the part of the tutorial that pertains to syslinux.

Done. Hopefully you can boot from the Flash drive now.

Good Luck,
mpphilli

Thanks anonymous and Ryan. I was able to get my t...

2007-03-08T16:42:00.000-05:00

Thanks anonymous and Ryan. I was able to get my thumbdrive to boot DSL, so the next step is Ubuntu.

Russ

Different jump drives will work differenly for thi...

2007-03-08T08:59:00.000-05:00

Different jump drives will work differenly for this. So I suggest giving this a try. If it does not work then do a search for "linux on a stick" along with the type of jump drive you have and see if anyone else is having the same problem you are having. Your type of jump drive just might not be able to do this.

I had the same problem, "Missing Operating System...

2007-03-07T02:46:00.000-05:00

I had the same problem, "Missing Operating System"

Follow these instructions instead...

http://www.althack.com/2006/03/10/how-to-run-linux-on-a-usb-drive/

I've followed these instructions to the T a couple...

2007-03-06T17:06:00.000-05:00

I've followed these instructions to the T a couple times and keep having the same issue.

Everything looks good in fdisk and the partitions seem to format fine.

After the final step of editing the syslinux.cfg file and rebooting from the USB, my laptop gives me the "Missing operating system" error message.

Any ideas?

Thanks,
Russ

This is nice... I used part of it to correct issue...

2007-02-26T02:48:00.000-05:00

This is nice... I used part of it to correct issues I got when I tried similar docs from another web page. My issue turned out that;
a), I was running from one USB (Slax) and trying to update another USB (for Mint-Ubuntu), and when I did the Grub (?), I think that it got confused w/ the "sdb1", "sdc1", "sdc2" thing.
b) I think that when I initially did the master boot record, I mis-specified.

As a noob-aside, let me confess that I was NOT paying really CLOSE attention ALL the way through the steps (remember, these were taken from multiple web pages)... I used Copy/Paste for many of the steps, and accidently did mkfs.ext3 on sdA2 --- MY MAIN LAPTOP __HARD-DRIVE__. Argh. So, by my best guess, I have over-written my WinXP MBR w/ 1700M of Linux ext3 inodes (whatever those are).

Anybody out there know if I can resurrect the remaining files from the disk? (very unhappy).

So, the results do far:
1) New, cheap 2G drives. 3 w/ Slax (Kill Bill, customized using MySlax Creator), 1 w/ MintLinux (Ubuntu variant), couple w/ Puppy and DSL.
2) New attempt of installing a stable, well respected, PERSISTANT distro - i.e. Ubuntu. A little success, but I'm working through the issues step by step - haven't actually gotten the blasted think to complete a boot yet, much less do something Linux-y for me.

Corrected "active partition", Installed isolinux to the correct partition, re-insstalled the MBR --- and it gets to boot.... or so close. It tanks in BusyBox (to play for a while, I guess). I understand none of this, but back to the web repository for more info.

I think I can get past this hurdle and I can then go on to two tests == challenges, if you will.

Local discounter has 1 and 2 G USBMemory sticks. Speed tests show a difference between them as about 5M and 16M. Somebody at work saw my cutesy stacked slax, She was interested in getting into
my slax, so to speak.

I hope to get a working Linux Ubuntu USB on her high-speed drive, and then "verse" it against my existing Mint Install. Then, a second test between the two sticks when they have the same distro on them. With my slow USB distro, it takes me about 1 minute to boot Slax (Kill Bill). It takes me just about the same time to boot mint, but it's a little unstable.
The boot times w/ CD are pretty slow, so we beat LiveCD pretty much all the time... Boot up 12x faster to load a full OS, networking, etc, that fits on a key ring? Pretty cool!

I think I have been missing a few here and there a...

2007-02-17T13:24:00.000-05:00

I think I have been missing a few here and there as of lately as well. I believe that it is due to the capitalization in the filter filed of the favorites setup. Try creating a copy of the same rss feed setup, only use all lower case. Or you can just leave out the first letter of the show you are trying to get and elevate the whole capital or not problem.

HI, I am new to rss feed and have followed your H...

2007-02-17T10:14:00.000-05:00

HI, I am new to rss feed and have followed your HowTo but I am not getting any downloads, I have to manyally doubleclick them to get them to download. What can be wrong ? I have followed every step of your HowTo...

Funny, I've been looking into this on my own for t...

2007-02-11T19:16:00.000-05:00

Funny, I've been looking into this on my own for the past few days and apparently a lot of people are playing with this.

take a look at these:

home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.net/Projects/USB/USBstick.html
www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=69211
www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?p=98279#98279
www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11796
www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=11796&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=30
advancemame.sourceforge.net/doc-makebootfat.html
www.irongeek.com/i.php?page=security/dual-boot-slax-linux-bartpe-windows-usb
www.howudune.com/knoppix2.php
www.weethet.nl/english/hardware_bootfromusbstick.php
www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=14181&hl=

I'm afraid I'm a bit stumped. If you were able to...

2007-02-10T08:53:00.000-05:00

I'm afraid I'm a bit stumped. If you were able to get your jump drive to work with the pen linux hack then it should work fine with this one as well.

The only thing that I can think of to do next would be for you to go directly to where I got the initial setup from the Ubuntu forums. It's in the "via" at the bottom of the page. Perhaps I missed something from there(?)