Since internet connection in Indonesia so slow and so expensive, I rent a internet cafe (warnet) to access internet. There are many warnet in Surabaya; from the cheapest one (Rp 1.500,00/hour) until the expensive (Rp 6.000,00/hour) based on the facility you like. Some good.. some bad….
Most engineer / cashier don’t care to the customer and the computer. Some computers installed with annoying application and non standard setting.
So if I want to warnet, I always bring some application that suites on the USB sticks.
- Firefox portable with extension : noscript, adblock plus, fasterfox, FFClickOnce, Firebug, flashblock, furl, mozilla accessibility, Unplug
- Thunderbird Portable for my POP3 emails
- Pidgin Portable for chat with MSN, Yahoo
- WebCopier for copy whole web site.
- Windows WL Writer to write my blog.
- Limewire and micro torrent for peer to peer
- Free AVG for small defender against virus
- Process Explorer to look at the running application instance. If there is a suspicious application, I will terminate it. Most warnet will disable Task Manager.
- Portable or free registry editor…
All the portable software I configure in my computer first with setting I wants and zipped it, So I just unzipped there. Just make sure the computer installed with Windows 2000 with SP3 or above; and Windows XP SP2; or later Windows. I have trouble with warnet using Windows 98 or ME. I always avoid warnet that using Linux, many trouble 
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If it is possible, I will search warnet with more than 512 MB of RAM, so I can installed with Java runtime or .NET 2.0/3.0/3.5 runtime so I can make the software using free version of IDE (Eclipse, Netbeans, VS Express)
