What’s on your keychain?
on 09.22.04, 06:47pm in life • digg this • comments (10)
While I own 2 different USB keychain drives (only 128MB unfortunately), I’ve been eyeing one of these 512MB Lexar Jump Drives that are currently down to $43.99 (expires 9/24). It started me wondering what I would put on the drive to make it as useful as possible for machine recovery, debugging problems, and getting myself out of any mess I might run into (ya know, you go to the in-laws and there’s a problem on their computer, etc).
So here’s the question: What’s on your keychain? I’d like to know.
Justin Pitts (September 22, 2004 @ 9:51 pm)
The .Net 1.1 SP1
Daemon Tools (mount a .ISO as a volume)
lspfix (anti-spyware)
SysInternals: PSTools, Process Explorer, FileMon, RegMon, DiskMon, TcpView, etc…
TextPad
UltraVNC
lab files from the last class I was in.
my (password protected) personal certificate
Jason Silver (September 22, 2004 @ 10:31 pm)
Here’s a few things I’d like to put on a keychain:
RegCleaner (old free version)
AdAware install (anti-spyware)
AVG Antivirus install (favourite spyware program)
WS_FTP with my INI file of various web sites I maintain - great for grabbing files from home FTP server too
EditPad Classic (NotePad replacement)
RemoteComputer client (RemoteComputer.net)
Still don’t have one, but this is a good use!
~Jason
Jason Silver (September 22, 2004 @ 10:31 pm)
AVG Antivirus install (favourite VIRUS SOFTWARE I mean.)
Dave Farquhar (September 23, 2004 @ 12:42 pm)
I’d add the DOS utility MBRWORK. It’s the perfect utility to use when you’re faced with the dreaded Operating System Not Found on boot due to the MBR being trashed (admittedly, fairly easy to fix without this) or, worse, the partition table being trashed (good luck fixing without this). It’s something I need maybe once a year, but when I need it, I need it badly.
I don’t have SpinRite 6.0 yet, but now that it has compatibility with NTFS and other filesystems, I’d keep it on one as well. Again, that’s something you need maybe once a year or even less, but it may be your last hope before sending a drive off to OnTrack and it’s a lot cheaper.
Eric (September 23, 2004 @ 6:33 pm)
Since I’ve switched… I keep a backup of our branding fonts, Transmit ftp software (to fetch software off of my machine) software keys, and printer drivers. Very handy.
joat (September 23, 2004 @ 11:47 pm)
Fob 1 (for work): various spyware and virus scanners (for install), fport, current IP space listing, source code for upgrades, backup of various eqpt. configs, watchlist (bad guys), quick slideshows of recent problems, phonebook, policies, source code
Fob 2 (for class): various TCPDump captures for lab, IANA lists (ports, ip protocols, etc.), ASCII chart, various man pages coverted to text files, homework, source code
Was wondering if a 1G USB2 would be fast enough to play videos off of. An hour’s TV can fit in about 600M (very lo res).
Dave (September 25, 2004 @ 6:09 am)
On my 512mb, I have one Microsoft briefcase that is effectively a mirror of my main work folder from my laptop. And on my desktop at the office, I have a briefcase that is a mirror of the briefcase on the pen drive. Sounds like it all might come crashing to a halt, but I’ve been doing this for years now (first with USB 1.1, now 2.0).
fred (September 30, 2004 @ 12:16 am)
I just bought one - thanks for the link.
I plan to give it to my wife so she can carry around all her documents and media like images and fonts.
=8^)
Matt (November 5, 2004 @ 5:11 am)
My CV and a Dungeons and Dragons character sheet in case I have to print more off.
troy (November 14, 2004 @ 3:15 am)
For keychain use, don’t buy the first thumbdrive you see. The should connect to the memory stick end, not the USB cover (yes, it’s less convenient, but just wait until you realize you have a USB cover w/o any data). Rubber and plastic are bad, metal is good.