Uhm, I'd check the bulk prices of small flash drives (256meg); you might find you can pick them up cheaply.
A cute hack I saw recently (from telstra!) was to use a USB uC to pretend to be a CDROM storage device to store a few hundred bytes of a pretend ISO CDROM. This way autorun.inf was run, and IE was spawned. :) Adrian On Tue, Apr 15, 2008, Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: > I am looking for a cheap data storage solution for many people. The > requirements are as follows: > > * CHEAP (very important) > * storage space isn't important - maybe a couple of hundred kilobytes max. > * media can be lost and replaced without much trouble/cost > * media can be easily read/written by an ordinary Linux computer > * media and media reader must be reasonably durable > * scalable: the media should be distributable to millions of people > > Flash memory is too expensive - I'm looking for cards that cost <$1 > each. I was thinking that SIM cards (like what you get in your phone) > would fit the bill. Is it possible to use these as a generic storage > medium? All the information I could find on USB SIM card readers > mention that the SIM is accessed as a serial rather than a storage > device. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html -- - Xenion - http://www.xenion.com.au/ - VPS Hosting - Commercial Squid Support - - $25/pm entry-level VPSes w/ capped bandwidth charges available in WA - -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
