RE: USB Device Detection and Alarm
RE: USB Device Detection and Alarm
- Subject: RE: USB Device Detection and Alarm
- From: email@hidden
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 03:22:17 EDT
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>1. replace the keyboard and mouse with a keyboard that has
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>an integrated touchpad,
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Seems like a rare item. I've only come across one in USB. Can
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you recommend one?
Not off the top of my head, but I recall I ended up using a
griffin ADB-to-USB adaptor and an combined
keyboard/trackpad, but it was also years ago, at the dawn
of the USB age. You may have to search around and take a
windoze-oriented combo keyboard if you can't find a mac
one... Or make everything key-prompt based (use the number
pad to navigate the choices)...
A quick db scan at a couple of the mail order houses turned
up the Adesso Tru-Form USB Touchpad Keyboard (for Mac):
http://www.macconnection.com/scripts/productdetail.asp?product_id=224340
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> Whatever you do, don't use a mouse.
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Why not? I should think that a nice optical mouse would hold up pretty well.
It will hold up until the instant someone either:
(a) unplugs it and pockets it (there simply is no 'good'
way to secure a free-rolling mouse); or
(b) you see a bunch of preteens hunkered down around it
with the mouse right up to their eyeball, examing the
laser... and an attorney sees them doing it.
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>[sleep & talking about OS 9.x instead of OS X]
I guess I am. Does the eMac ship with an optional copy of
OS 9.2.2, like the newest generation of 15" LCD iMacs?
Probably... Don't know. Is there any specific reason that
you are using new hardware (rather than used) for the
display, since kiosks are usually not very hardware
intensive? Just curious...
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By the dearth of responses, I'm guessing that no one has any idea
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how to get USB and AppleScript on speaking terms...
Not directly. Hardware is abstracted at this layer to the
point that it usually isn't directly approachable, although
I guess you could use a cron function to repeatedly cycle
the system profiler to see which hardware is attached, and
go off if it doesn't find the listings for what you are
looking for. Does the system profiler even look for the
keyboard/mouse? (yes, but it sees the ADB-to-USB
adapator instead of the trackball on my system). Still,
better to physically secure it in such an environment than
to use software to provide a false sense of security (gee,
unplug the entire unit and suddenly your software alarms
are useless -- here, put the whole computer into this
cooler/duffel bag/etc.). I may seem jaded, but I've seen
what a bunch of percocious 9 to 16 year olds can do to a
free standing computer ("gee, I wonder how much this [insert
item] would get me on eBay?").
Best Wishes,
=-= Marc Glasgow
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