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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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Utility that sends an email when usb is unplugged

I work for large university's IT department. We manage around 500 computers in remote labs around campus and residents halls. As an on going project, we are increasing secruty in our labs through physical means (locks, steel cable, alarm systems)…
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Multi Platform LAMPP Server on USB Drive

I am trying to setup a simple cross platform server that would be completely portable and work on windows, mac and linux. Some Background: I used to only have a windows desktop. This desktop has ran xampp to power some php scripts that are an…
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Fix usb device file for a certain USB-Device

I have a problem with a Linux/Ubuntu Desktop machine. The machine is used as a part of a larger setup (a autonomous boat) that relies on four USB-Devices. Three of them are plugged into an USB Hub and one is plugged directly into the machine.…
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(Ubuntu Server 11.04) Proftpd permission denied with USB HDDs

I have an external HDD mounted in my server. It's on /dev/sdb1 (or /media/usb0). I have a proftpd user which home directory is set to /media/usb0. The problem is that the ownership of /media/usb0 is root, and I cannot change that. I always get…
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Recommendation for a Linux distro that I can install on a USB drive

I have a netbook (no CD drive) that no longer boots. Before I do a factory reset (which is what the manufacturer is telling me I need to do), I want to try and recover my personal data. So I'm looking for a Linux distro that I can install on a USB…
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SBS2003 won't acknowledge any USB ports

I've uninstalled/reinstalled/updated the latest drivers for all usb ports. Also, the removable storage service won't stay on.
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How to get fixed USB device names in Linux

I have a relatively short question concerning USB device handling: How is it possible to map a USB device to a fixed device. I know there are ways using udev rules, but I want complete instructions showing how to do it and what tools to use (if…
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detect specific device is USB / SATA apart from dmesg output

Suppose in a linux machine you have both SATA and USB devices present, and if they are all detected properly, how do you know whether a specific device(sda1/ sdb1) is USB device OR SATA device. Note: devices needs to be manually mounted. Note:…
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Copy large amount of small files using robocopy from USB disk to SATA disk

Would specifying the /MT option in robocopy give me better or worse performance, when copying a large amount of smaller files (~10-150kB) from an USB attached drive to an internal SATA drive? Should I go all crazy and specify /MT:128? Both drives…
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Windows. Setting user permissions on usb peripherals

At work, I finally got the right to have a Debian installed into a Virtualbox on a Windows XP host. The USB access does not work in my Debian because it requires authorization from the system admin and I can't have admin rights to my Windows. Our…
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P2V conversion with VMM to a USB Drive

For testing purpose, I would like to be able to do P2V conversion thanks to VMM by creating the VM on a USB Hard Drive. VMM (I guess due to Hyper-V) does not show my USB Hard Drive in the hard drive list. It only shows me the physical hard…
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Which motherboards support ECC RAM and USB 3.0?

I'm gathering specs to build a highly reliable file server, somewhat future proof for the next 3-5 years. The component I'm starting with is the motherboard. Are there motherboards that have been shown to support ECC RAM (and which particular…
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How can I allow non-administrators to use port-specific USB devices that require a driver-reinstall for each new port?

Is there a way to give non-admin users the right to (re-)install drivers for a port-specific USB device so that they do not need an administrator login every time they plug the same device into a different port? I have a group of engineers who need…
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Set custom mount point and mount options for USB stick

I have an USB stick which contains private stuff like the SSH key. I want to mount this stick to my own home directory with 0700 permissions. Currently I do this with this line in /etc/fstab: LABEL=KAYSTICK /home/k/.kaystick auto…
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Graceful Shutdown of Ubuntu Machine with APC UPS - Network to USB Cable

So I have two APC UPS devices: Back-UPS ES 500 and 725. These two UPSes work fine but recently we had an extended outage and both of our servers connected to these UPSes shutdown and one of them had a RAID Drobo that suffered disk damage. Now I…
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