“ I've left my USB in the CAD Labs! AAAAAAHHH!!!
”
(I know I am sick
and tired of doing this!!!).
"Before leaving De Montfort University in '09, I had left my USB Stick in the CAD Labs at least 20 times. By jove I was sick of this, and if you see the CAD Technicians box in the Fletcher building they can show you a box of hundreds of USB sticks, waiting to be destroyed if not collected in time!
So, one afternoon after a tutorial, my friend Matt Gaydon and myself sat pondering how to make sure our priceless data can be recovered should be lose our USB storage. Matt was storing all his coursework on an old Mp3 Player and I was storing it on a cheap 16Gb USB Stick.
After some time playing with Notepad and autorun.inf the thought came to me, to write a simple piece of software that identifies its owner and home! Brilliant... But what to code it in? *sigh*. I had not known any form of Windows Executable code at the time, until I discovered AutoIt3. Fantastic. The ball started rolling.
Next morning, I come in with a prototype. I show Matt, he is reasonably impressed. Gives me a few pointers and for the next few days I am coding in what little spare time I had. Before you know it, word gets out to the CAD Technicians and IT Lecturers (likely Matt telling people :P) and I am asked to demonstrate.
By May 2009, a beta release is installed onto the USB stick of a (rather brave) technician to try it out. As for the current status of the project? Who knows... I may find out more later!
I have made the code for the DMU edition available purely for you to try and see how it works... You may use the code as an example to show other people, however I do not want you to edit it or redistribute the code editted in any way, it must remain the same and cannot be used for Commercial uses.
LostAndFound DMU Edition by Xan Manning is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 UK: England & Wales License.
