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Introduction to my Business Card

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Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by stretchwithme »

nzmsv wrote: post #14
frazerb wrote: post #7

I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an interview or being called in to quote for some work. But does this show commercial ingenuity ? Perhaps less so. People will be terrified of plugging a random USB device into their machine. And anyway it's pretty easy to buy things just like this - you see them q…

Sadly, people will just stick this, and any random USB device into their computers. I can't remember the company in question, but there was a story about a security audit where the hacker team got in by handing out free USB drives in the parking lot.

yeah, but you probably would have to stand out there for several minutes before that would work at most companies :-)

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by robobenjie »

nzmsv wrote: post #14
frazerb wrote: post #7

I like this because he is demonstrating his technical ingenuity by designing and building the thing - from scratch - by himself. A great lead into getting an interview or being called in to quote for some work. But does this show commercial ingenuity ? Perhaps less so. People will be terrified of plugging a random USB device into their machine. And anyway it's pretty easy to buy things just like this - you see them q…

Sadly, people will just stick this, and any random USB device into their computers. I can't remember the company in question, but there was a story about a security audit where the hacker team got in by handing out free USB drives in the parking lot.

I heard the story attributed to Lawrence Livermore National Labs, and they have fairly strict security (ie men with machine guns, lots of trainig). Probably has to do with the plutonium...

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by lkjhghjk »

tjmaxal wrote: post #2

He should mass produce these. I'd buy a stack for myself and I bet a lot of other people would too.

I rather think the point is to show his technical ability and 'think outside the boxness'. If you just want a cute promotional item there are promotional companies that will put your name on anything from a foam gonk to a golf umbrella.

We interviewed an e-eng and in the interview when we asked what have you done, he was able to pull out the world's first pocket TV (sinclair gadget from the early 80s) and say - "I designed that". Certainly an ice breaker.

Re: Introduction to my Business Card

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Post by jf »

bdickason wrote: post #26
tlrobinson wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mass storage USB devices work on Macs too. Autorun might not though.

Thanks, I was specifically referring to the mac version of 'autorun.inf' but don't know the terminology :x

Mac OS X doesn't have an autorun.inf equivalent. The closest you can get is a configuration file to tell Finder (the file browser in OS X) to use a custom window size and background when viewing the drive.
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