[ANSTHRLD] Round Table Re-cap

[Marie de Blois]

On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 5:24 PM, Andreas von Meißen <scamiz at gmail.com> wrote:
> The point of a heraldstick is that it's available offline. If you're
> already online, you can access all of the resources directly.
>
> If you want to build your own, this is the website:
> http://www.tanzos.net/STICK/. It's Istvan Non Scripta's baby. I've built a
> few, and it's not hard but does take some time.

Before someone says "but! Dropbox files can be downloaded and thus
available offline!" .. I'd also note that the contents of the
Heraldstick largely fall into two categories:

- Articles already available online (and whose authors likely would
not appreciate having them put in Dropbox, particularly since they may
be updated; the Heraldstick has an update tool to check for that)
- Tools that really require a specific OS and other tools to run
properly, such as the Ordinary and Armorial (which also updates
regularly; ditto on Heraldstick update tool)

This is why the Heraldstick is a virtual machine, so it can run that
OS and other tools inside it.


Marie