Not nessicarily a low res camera Andreas, may be they alter the image size??...hmmm thats a point. Infact I have used the same kind of camera they they are using, and they are good quality...but anyway, if they were looking at another camera, they would not have asked for an app. I suspect.
Jeremy -----Original Message----- From: "Andreas Toth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Multiple recipients of list delphi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 09:28:48 +1300 Subject: RE: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry > Must be a very low-res digital camera if they can fit more than one > picture > on a floppy. Not only that, but floppy access is so horribly slow. Have > they > considered any other media such as using USB drives etc? (OK, so you > would > still have problems locking it down.) > > By the way, I take it there's no network available otherwise you could > utilise this as a means of storing your pictures in a fashion that > would be > invisible to the users. At least this way the available capacity isn't > limited to that of a floppy plus the IT guys would no longer have to > run a > sneaker net... > > > -Andreas > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Jeremy Coulter > Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 08:53 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry > > > Yeah that's the problem. They can still access it via cmd prompt. > Although, the users are either on win98 or win2k so XP is not an > issues. > Basically what it is, is the place has a dig. Camera that writes toa > floppy. > ATM they have to take the floppy to the IT guys to get them to take the > pics off it etc. > They want an app. That will read the floppy, but only in that app. > I have not felt too comfortable about this project. > Might just say nah, not interested :-) > > Jeremy > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On > Behalf Of Corey Murtagh > Sent: Monday, 3 February 2003 08:38 > To: Multiple recipients of list delphi > Subject: Re: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Coulter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 7:40 AM > Subject: RE: [DUG]: Disable Floppy in Registry > > > > Thanks for that Dave. > > I looked at the registry, but I don't have about 98% of these entries > > in my registry unfortunitly. My susspicoin is tho, the > > "NoDrives"=dword:01000000 is the line that will do it. > > I will have a look at my machine at work, and see if it has some of > > these entries. > > Here's something from one of M$'s books (sample chapter online at > http://www.microsoft.com/mspress/books/sampchap/6232a.asp ): > > "Hiding drive letters in Windows XP doesn't prevent users from > accessing > those drives through other means, including at the MS-DOS command > prompt. This setting hides only those drives in Windows Explorer, the > common dialog boxes, and so on. Thus, you can't rely on this as a > security measure." > > I think to properly disable a drive in Windows of any form you'll have > to figure out how the Device Manager disables hardware. The user can > still enable it through the Device Manager, but they have to know that. > > After some testing on WinXP, it seems as if there is no single value > change that will disable the drive ala the Device Manager. > > -- > Corey Murtagh > The Electric Monk > "Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur!" > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > - > --- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------- > ---- > New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz > To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with body of "unsubscribe delphi" > Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- New Zealand Delphi Users group - Delphi List - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Website: http://www.delphi.org.nz To UnSub, send email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] with body of "unsubscribe delphi" Web Archive at: http://www.mail-archive.com/delphi%40delphi.org.nz/
