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Universal Serial Bus, an industry standard for serial communication.

The Universal Serial Bus is an industry standard for serial communication, defining:

  • connectors
  • protocols
  • cables

Originally developed to have a standard for connecting devices to computers.

More info on usb.org and wikipedia.

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Disabling USB/removable devices in software

How can I truly disable USB/removable drive support purely with software? On Windows for example I know I could disable the relevant hardware in device manager, and users would not be able to override this. This would work for the most part. What…
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How many usb devices can I connect to a server?

How many USB devices can I connect to a windows 2000, 2003 and 2008 server machine?
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New Raid-1 array rebuilding 2nd time after activation

I created a sofware raid-1 from existing data partition using this howto. Both disks are usb 1TB disks, (each had already two partitions and I used 2nd from each, they have same size) So I simply repartitioned disk B with type fd and created the…
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How to create a virtual ethernet card for SSH tunneling through USB device? [W7]

I have an SSH tunneling that is connected to an USB device that is connected to the Internet. How can I configure a virtual ethernet card that get everything to 127.0.0.1:1080?
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Boot Linux from big (1.5TB) USB external hard drive

I would like to make a backup solution to be a computer with a single external USB hard drive from which the (1) system boots and (2) stores backups. So in case of any problems with the box, we just move the external hard drive to another box and we…
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how to find usb storage devices on esxi server?

We are looking at temporarily mounting an external hard disk on USB to an ESX1 v4 server from VMware. In /var/log/messages, we see the messages of the device being connected, but we cannot figure out the actual name of the device (/dev/???) to…
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How well does Cocoa allow auditing of I/O to USB, FireWire and optical media on a Mac?

I have a client who wants us to lock down the Mac laptops we're using to access his data. He wants an audit of all files read and written from removable media (USB, FireWire, optical). I have a sister question re: finding a commercial app for…
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Autodetect/mount SDCards and run script for them on Linux

I'm currently running SME Server, and need to have a script run upon the attachment of SD Cards to my server. The script itself works fine (it copies the contents of the cards), but the automounting and execution of the script is where I'm having…
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Disable thumb drives, but allow other mass storage USB devices on Linux

I have a requirement to disable USB thumb drives, while still allowing other USB devices such as a portable hard drive. Is there a way to do this in Linux? I know the Windows side has some software that enforces this, and need to do the same on…
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Install Ubuntu on USB drive then put back HD inside computer?

I would like to install Ubuntu on a hard drive that is accessed via USB. Then, when all is OK, replace the computer hard disk with that one that was USB-connected. (Computer used for USB installation and the one receiving the HD is the same…
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Windows Server 2003 not automatically assigning drive letter to external drives

My newly rebuilt Windows Server 2003 doesn't automatically assign drive letters to external usb devices. I have to manually open the Disk Management Console and assign it a drive letter every time. It does this with two different drives in all USB…
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Maximum length of a USB cable

Is there a maximum length that a USB cable can be? I want to know if there is an upper limit to its length before it becomes unreliable or useless. If there was also a way to get around this max limit that would be helpful too.
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connecting usb printer to linux ethernet port

I have wireless router WRT 54GS with DD-WRT and USB printer. I was thinking about installing CUPS on my old WRT and using usb to ethernet converter to connect my usb printer to network. Only part that I'm missing is which kind of connector to…
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Card Reader and Software

I am looking for a card-reader solution that includes not only the physical card-reader but a method to read/program the cards. The end goal is have to give my end users a card-reader and then an associated card they need to swipe to login to the…
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Is there a way of creating an image from a bootable usb stick

I would like to create an image from a hard drive, but most software for this requires to be installed (on windows) I would like to attach two hard-drives and a usb stick, and create and copy the image of one HD onto another, without having windows…
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