I do notice as far as performance go that it does feel a little like you are running through a VNC connection. It is faster, but the screen painting is a little delayed as in a VNC conection. Still seems pretty reasonable to me given the overall portability of the system.
Dave > ------------Original Message------------ > From: "David Forslund" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "'Horst Herb'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > Date: Fri, Oct-22-2004 11:08 AM > Subject: RE: Virtual Privacy Machine > > > Around 5 years ago we demonstrated a full medical record and the > software running on a flash memory card. > We did this for the DoD who was/is distributing flash memory cards to > all their soldiers. This enables > just as claimed here the ability to view a medical record with software > directly on the card. In our case > we used a JVM as the portability platform and included a JVM on the > card to run the application. We would > then provide a JVM on the card for each system that the card was > attached to. This is identical to what happens > with the emulator that enables the running of linux. The security is a > problem as in both cases the database > could be copied from the card by the host os. However, this could be > encrypted so that copying the database > would be of little value or at least make it hard to decrypt. I think > this approach is pretty promising and it > worked quite well for us 5 years ago, and I still have the code that > works on any windows machine. In addition, > similar to this case, it could connect securely to external servers if > desired/necessary. > > In any case, it makes a good platform for people wanting to demonstrate > an application on a system without having > to reboot into another operating system. As for performance, I found > it worked quite well on my 1.4GHz Pentium M > notebook. It could be that the performance others have seen may be > hampered by the low bandwidth of the memory card or > a USB 1.1 connection. The emulator doesn't seem to be a problem, for > me at least. > > Dave > > ------------Original Message------------ > > From: "Tim Churches" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: "'Horst Herb'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Date: Thu, Oct-21-2004 7:09 PM > > Subject: RE: Virtual Privacy Machine > > > > From: GPCG Talk List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > > Behalf Of Horst Herb > > > Sent: Friday, 22 October 2004 9:53 AM > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: [GPCG_TALK] Virtual Privacy Machine > > > > > > The seems to resolve many of our security problems arising > > > from inadequate choices of software and operating system: > > > http://pvpm.metropipe.net/ > > > > > > I will review it and comment when I am finished, but this > > > looks like something EXTREMELY promising, and might even be > > > expanded to a complete electronic heath record system on a > > > USB stick (not just the data, but the software to view and > > > modify the health records as well) > > > > > >
