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 <[email protected]>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 . . . :) > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your > subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution > _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
