On Mar 31, 7:04 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...@start.no> wrote: > * Abethebabe: > > > I wanted to know if there was a way I could get a Python program to > > run off of my flash drive as soon as the computer (Windows) detected > > the device? > > > For example I could have a a simple program that would create a text > > document on the computers desktop when my flash drive is detected. > > As long as its your own computer, no problem. > > However, in the war between the corporate "we own your computer" and the > individual's "I think the computer's mine" (so eloquently expressed as the > main > goal of the 70's Smalltalk project, to bring effective computing to the > masses) > the arms race is currently stuck at a point where any computer-literate person > running Windows turns off the various run-automatically features as soon as > they're sneak-introduced by Windows service packs and IE updates and > whatever. I > don't know, but I think there are six or seven such schemes. Happily, as far > as > I know they can all be turned off. If not for this then the recording industry > could have sued a lot of people in Norway. But our laws require copy > protection > schemes to be effective, and a scheme based on a feature that most intelligent > persons have turned off isn't effective, so wrt. law it's like it's not there. > > I think it was EMI who once distributed a nasty rootkit (and yes, it was > theirs, > it was not an accident) as a copy protection scheme on a music CD. Getting a > lot > of bad publicity for that they and other record companies didn't back off but > continued with just less malware-like auto run protection. I was perplexed > when > I learned that one CD with Madrugada, that I'd copied to my hard disk, was > supposedly protected this way. Sure enough, there was this sticker on it. > However, since the idiot scheme they used was based on auto-run I never > noticed. > > Cheers, > > - Alf
Interesting, so every new computer I'd use it on I would need to disable these filters? If I could just disable them on my computer though I'd be happy enough. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
