A Note in Response to the 'Updated Carry List' Post

A couple of weeks ago, I posted my Updated Carry List. Reader D.R. had this additional information to add:

"Recently saw your updated daily carry list and have a couple of suggestions:

For the cell phone:

extra SD cards and recharge gear as follows:

Tekkeon TekCharge Mobile Power and Battery Charger

Sanyo Eneloop AA batteries

Goal Zero Nomad 7 solar panel with USB port

Downloaded apps: APP 2 SD or equivalent, U.S. Army Survival Guide, Google Books, WikiPock, MapDroyd, iTriage, KnotsGuide, ElectroDroid, Scanner Radio, Flashlight, Google Translate
backup SD cards, batteries and solar panel

Obviously I wouldn't carry around all that stuff but would have the capability to keep the phone/s charged in the event of a power outage. The apps and extra SD cards would be a potential gold mine of handy info in very portable format.

For the USB thumb drive:

In addition to the personal documents, backup documents, whatever, I like to have Portable Apps, a suite of portable applications that include OpenOffice, web browser, etc.

http://portableapps.com/

I also like to carry a second thumb drive with a full bootable Linux distro image on it, my preference being Linux Mint 10.0, but Knoppix and Puppy Linux are even smaller.

http://www.linuxmint.com/

http://www.knoppix.net/

http://puppylinux.org/main/Download%20Latest%20Release.htm

You can easily and quickly burn any of these Linux distros to a thumb drive using the software package found here:

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

I like to have the capability of access to an excellent operating system wherever I can plug in a USB stick if needed, and there are also a bunch of computer system repair software tools out there that can be put on USB drives, as you probably know already. It is also possible to have a bootable image of Windows XP or Windows 7 on a thumb drive but the procedure for making that happen is a royal pain in the ass. Not so with Linux.

Hope you find this info useful and thanks a million for your site and keeping it up to date so well; it is definitely a goldmine of extremely useful information."

Thanks DR for this useful information!