Windows Portable???

[stephen barncard]

I actually liked the U3 idea, because it let developers safely allow
installs on removable media so they could be used anywhere. It's all about
DRM.
At Revcon II there was a guy from the company that gave a a half hour
demonstration. Lynn, you were there.

 I immediately lost interest when it was announced to be a "windows only"
feature. Judging by the number of Power/Macbooks in the crowd, I wasn't
alone.

It was an odd moment of Rev promoting a platform-specific feature.
-------------------------
Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://houseofcubes.com/disco.irev


On 8 March 2010 09:23, Richmond Mathewson <richmondmathewson at gmail.com>wrote:

> On 08/03/2010 19:02, Bob Sneidar wrote:
>
>> I believe U3 is a reference to a removable media system where simply by
>> attaching it to the computing device, it would enable software on the U3
>> device to become dynamically installed in the OS, and when removed the
>> software would be dynamically uninstalled, so to speak.
>>
>> Like any powerful tool, it can also be used for harm rather than good. I
>> am not sure what the safeguards are. I know of a friend who has a USB device
>> that when plugged into a computer silently downloads all the serial numbers
>> and the passwords it can find on a Windows box. Later he can run software on
>> the USB device to crack the Windows passwords (not a hard feat these days as
>> MD5 has been quite crackable for some time).
>>
>>
>>
>
> Funny sort of 'friend'. . .
>
> In the RunRev Studio 4 standalone settings there is an option for U3
> something-or-other.
>
> Presumably (?????) the good folk at RunRev have put the U3 'thing' there
> because they felt there
> was some demand for it: after all they I don't suppose they went to the
> effort of putting that there
> just for the fun of it.
>
> Also on the downloads page:
> http://www.runrev.com/downloads/all-downloads/full-list/
>
> there is this:  "The U3 download allows you to create programs on a U3
> flash drive system. "
>
> In the RunRev User Guide there is this:
>
> "Compatible Build your application for the U3 smart platform. For more
> information on U3 see http://www.u3.com. For more documentation on
> building U3 applications using Revolution, see the Resources/Examples/U3
> Documentation.pdf file within your Revolution distribution folder. "
>
> "U3 Documentation.pdf" is 'buried':  4.0.0-gm-1/Resources/Examples/U3
> Documentation.pdf
>
> Reading the document seems to suggest that a U3 USB drive does carry
> something rather
> similar to Windows Portable.
>
> This seems to say that one can build a Windows system on a USB stick
> (rather like the USB
> Linux systems) with 1 or more RunRev standalones rolled up in it so that
> one can bung the
> USB stick into any PC USB port, boot from it into one's very own Mini
> Windows and run one's
> standalones without having to alter any OS on the PC's hard drive(s).
>
> As the whole thing sounds horribly complicated I cannot see myself getting
> into it right
> this minute . . .   :)
>
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