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From: Abethebabe on 31 Mar 2010 18:48
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.
From: rantingrick on 31 Mar 2010 19:00
On Mar 31, 5:48 pm, Abethebabe <abrahamalra...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well i sure hope your intentions are for the forces of good and NOT
the forces of evil. Anyway the beauty of USB is the fact you can read
and write to it just like any other file on your harddisc, unlike with
CD media where you need a CS degree and MS's blessing. So now the
question really is

""" How do i run a python script when i plug in my flash drive"""?

And thats a good question. Well it's going to involve "something"
watching and waiting for this (big hint) "event" to happen. Maybe
something like a "Flash Drive plug in watcher sevice" Do you have any
experience with win32 programming?
From: Alf P. Steinbach on 31 Mar 2010 19:04
* 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
From: Abethebabe on 31 Mar 2010 20:32
On Mar 31, 7:00 pm, rantingrick <rantingr...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mar 31, 5:48 pm, Abethebabe <abrahamalra...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Well i sure hope your intentions are for the forces of good and NOT
> the forces of evil. Anyway the beauty of USB is the fact you can read
> and write to it just like any other file on your harddisc, unlike with
> CD media where you need a CS degree and MS's blessing. So now the
> question really is
>
> """ How do i run a python script when i plug in my flash drive"""?
>
> And thats a good question. Well it's going to involve "something"
> watching and waiting for this (big hint) "event" to happen. Maybe
> something like a "Flash Drive plug in watcher sevice" Do you have any
> experience with win32 programming?

I'm a web programmer and python is my first delve into desktop
programming. I had a rough guesstimation that I'd need to maybe use
wxpython with an API for the flash drive (wasn't sure if hardware had
this, I guess it would be the drivers?)

So do you think wxPython would have the answer I'm looking for? Thanks
for your reply btw
From: Abethebabe on 31 Mar 2010 20:33
On Mar 31, 7:04 pm, "Alf P. Steinbach" <al...(a)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.
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