Comments on: Dissecting Swag

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 19:06:14 +0000

Thanks Keith for your help and time.

By: Keith Neufeld

Keith Neufeld — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:41:58 +0000

Doug, because the USB button (at least the one I took apart) emulates a USB keyboard, the target URL is burned into the FLASH/PROM of the button’s microcontroller.

You won’t be able to change that without a programmer; and the μcont is probably fused so you can’t read out the existing code.

By: Doug

Doug — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 18:15:59 +0000

I just snagged one of those “easy buttons” from the world furniture market this last week. I find it a great item… The thing that I’m curious about is if the website that it loads is customizable I’d like to change it from what it came with to one I use. I’ve browsed the registry and can’t seem to find it.

Any help would be appreciated.

By: Julian Calaby

Julian Calaby — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:24:01 +0000

On Linux handling the windows key, I use it as a magic “do stuff” key with my window manager, media player, etc.

However it’s not going to appear in your terminal (or vim) without some stuffing around. (Yay for stuffing around)

By: Keith Neufeld

Keith Neufeld — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 23:17:35 +0000

Okay, you guys are obviously all right, because you’re telling me the same thing.

I didn’t know a URL in the Run dialog would open a browser. That makes sense.

I betcha Linux doesn’t know how to parse the Windows key, so it just ignored it.

By: Tony

Tony — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:22:15 +0000

In Windows, alt-r (from what I remember) I think opens the run command window. If you put a url in there it would probably open the site in IE. Demo-on-usb, wow. lol

By: Julian Calaby

Julian Calaby — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:22:14 +0000

I’m going out on a limb, but I’ll guess that the ‘r’ at the start of the address is supposed to be Win+r – which loads up the “run” dialog in windows.

It then types in the address, hits enter, and your favourite browser loads it all up for you.

Pretty simple, yet sophisticated for a demo fob. I was expecting a flash drive and software =)

By: Garth

Garth — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:48:25 +0000

The rwww…. bit is probably actual [windows-key]+[r] which opens up the run dialog, and then types in the website address. This opens the website in your default browser on windows.