[Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?

Thu Feb 25 08:27:43 UTC 2010

I think we are all in that boat.

I run my business accounting software under Win 2K in a virtual machine mostly because Quickbooks won't run under wine and I can't get GNUcash to access my bank!. 

I was gratified to find out that a VM with different host and virtual OSes is one of the most secure environments there are these days. It makes building a root kit or a virus an enormously complicated task!

In addition it is very straightforward to encrypt the entire VM leaving no traces of cache files etc. around.

Karen

--- On Thu, 2/25/10, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?
> To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> Date: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 12:22 AM
> :P  Don't hate me because I use
> Windows.  Hate me because I own shares in Microsoft!
> 
> Actually, I have a passion for Gentoo Linux.  I run
> OpenSim on Gentoo as well, but I also do occasional
> presentations and so forth on Windows machines and I cater
> to the foolish masses who know not what dangers they face
> when they operate their Windows pcs.  :)
> 
> 
> On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:10 AM,
> Karen Palen <karen_palen at yahoo.com>
> wrote:
> 
> <unkind comment about Windows users switching to Linux
> goes here> LOL
> 
> 
> 
> --- On Wed, 2/24/10, Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> > From: Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> 
> > Subject: Re: [Opensim-users] Shortcut Creation
> Drive-Letter Auto- Assignment?
> 
> > To: opensim-users at lists.berlios.de
> 
> > Date: Wednesday, February 24, 2010, 11:41 PM
> 
> > I believe I found the
> solution!
> 
> >
> 
> >      I just read that if you
> 
> > remove the text in the "Start in:" field
> then the
> 
> > shortcut will
> 
> > dynamically change each time you plug in the drive
> and
> 
> > click the
> 
> > shortcut - always pointing to the original
> executable.
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > I removed "C:\opensim" from the Start
> 
> > in field, and so far it appears to work.  Was
> assigned
> 
> > as
> 
> > F on my desktop and as E: now on my laptop!
> 
> >
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:20 AM,
> 
> > Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> > Provided autorun is not disabled on
> 
> > the target computer, I guess I could also write an
> 
> > Autorun.inf file to automatically launch the opensim
> 
> > executable when I plug the thumb drive in... 
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:16 AM,
> 
> > Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > Well, the expression is
> 
> > %SystemDrive% but the shortcut refuses to acknowledge
> it. 
> 
> > Either I may need to just write a simple batch file to
> reach
> 
> > into the opensim directory and start the executable,
> or
> 
> > (heaven forbid) actually navigate into the opensim
> directory
> 
> > and double-click the executable to start it.  :)
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 12:08 AM,
> 
> > Len Brown <lenwbrown at gmail.com>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > Thanks Steve, I saw your post just as I was about to
> 
> > mention I'd seen the expression  %CDROM% before
> in DOS
> 
> > batch files. But that detected the first CD drive in
> 
> > sequence.  Maybe though I can find an expression for
> the
> 
> > first unassigned drive letter in sequence DOS
> expression and
> 
> > see how that works.
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > I'll experiment some and ask my good buddy Google
> for
> 
> > help too (but only if I have to).  :)
> 
> >
> 
> > On Wed, Feb
> 
> > 24, 2010 at 11:49 PM, Steven Westcot <tsudico at gmail.com>
> 
> > wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > Len,
> 
> > Tthe easiest way on Windows might be a batch
> 
> > file that has the following line in it:
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > %CD%\opensim\OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe
> 
> >
> 
> > %CD% is
> 
> > an environment variable for Windows that puts the
> current
> 
> > directory path where the variable is located.
>  It's
> 
> > often used in batch files and on the command prompt
> but
> 
> > whether it would work for a shortcut I'm not
> 
> > sure.
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > Steve
> 
> > W.
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > This is
> 
> > not really OpenSim specific but kinda...
> 
> >
> 
> >     I have virtual drives I mount that OpenSim
> resides on
> 
> > which I use for
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > local experimentation.  These virtual drives always
> mount
> 
> > the the same
> 
> > specific drive letter.
> 
> >
> 
> >     But I have a copy of OpenSim on a thumb drive I
> use
> 
> > on a few different
> 
> > computers.  As a result, sometimes it mounts as D:
> and
> 
> > sometimes as E: and
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > so on.
> 
> >
> 
> >     I have a shortcut to the OpenSom executable
> located
> 
> > outside of the
> 
> > "opensim" directory on the thumb drive.
>  The
> 
> > shortcut has the following:
> 
> >
> 
> > X:\opensim\OpenSim.32BitLaunch.exe
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >     X, obviously, is whatever drive the thumb drive
> is
> 
> > currently assigned
> 
> >
> 
> > to.  But since this thumb drive's letter
> assignment
> 
> > occasionally changes, is
> 
> > there something I can replace the above with so that
> no
> 
> > matter what drive
> 
> > letter my thumb is assigned, the shortcut will still
> link
> 
> > to the executable
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> >
> 
> > in the opensim directory?
> 
> >
> 
> > Thanks a bunch!
> 
> >
> 
> > --
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> > - Len W. Brown
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> >
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> > - Len W. Brown
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> >    lenwbrown at gmail.com
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