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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 System Restore on a USB External Disk on *all* Windows machines?

So I can disable System Restore on my USB External Disk by going to System Properties -> System Restore -> (selecting the drive) -> Settings -> Turn off System Restore on this drive and this works wonderfully my own system. But can I set an…
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How can I install Windows 7 without burning a DVD or using a USB Drive?

I downloaded the .iso of Windows 7 and would now like to install it as my main OS. However I can't because I don't have a DVD Burner, a 2+ GB USB Drive, or a external HDD (or extra HDD). So how can I install Windows 7?
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Is there a way to power down/reset a USB port if it or a device attached has issues?

I've got an issue with some hardware in a test lab that, when the device being tested has an issue, it seems to "crash" the USB controller, causing the port to not show devices connected...however it gets worse. If the Server the device is attached…
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What is the purpose of a xHCI controller while esxi6 doesn't support USB3?

When I add a virtual xHCI controller to my Linux VM on an esxi6 host, plug some USB3 device to a blue USB 3.0 SuperSpeed port on the server and connect this device to the VM, I get only USB2 speed. lsusb reports the device being on a USB2…
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Recommend a rugged, good performing eSATA + USB hard drive for off-site backup?

I'm looking for a tough (drop resistant, etc), small USB + eSATA external hard drive specifically for backups that will be taken off-site and potentially stored over long periods. Size 500GB and up. There are so many products out there, and I'm…
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Assign static id to usb printer

I have three usb receipt printers from the same vendor (thus the same usb vendor and product id) plugged into the same server and I need to be able to issue separate printing commands to each of them. The printers register themselves to /dev/usb/lp*…
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Serial terminal servers that work with "serial-over-USB"

I've used serial terminal servers for a long time. Basically, these are devices that allow you to communicate with a serial (eg RS232/RS485/RS422) device over ethernet in various ways. Folks in this community may typically use these things as…
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VMware ESXi boots to black screen with only one text line: "usb"

After rebooting my server (Lenovo System X), my ESXi instance starts to boot and then hangs up after the Yellow/Grey screen. I have a black screen, with a white "usb" on top. I found similar issue with "scrath" or "ssh" text, but not "usb". I tried…
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Creating bootable USB thumb drive from PXE boot files

Looked around and Googled but could not find a similar question. It seems most people want to take a bootable USB thumb stick and convert it into a PXE boot image. I actually need to go in the opposite direction, that is, create a bootable USB thumb…
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Synchronize zfs pools fast

My server saves incremental backups on a zfs volume. Due to the data being very similar I can reduce the growth significantly - there is around 500GB of "new data" every day but the pool grows only around 5-10GB/day, the rest is stored in…
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How to disable hiddev96 in linux (or tell it to ignore a specific device)

I'm having problems with a CentOS 5.0 system when using a certain USB device. The problem is that the device advertises itself as a HID device and linux is happy to try to provide support for it: In /ver/log/messages I see a line that reads:…
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Standalone tool to synchronize two folders in windows?

I keep data on a USB drive, but I also keep a copy of all of that data on a hard disk. I like using the hard disk because it's faster and gives me a backup. What standalone tools would work to keep the files on the disk and USB drive in sync? I'd…
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Using a scanner with thin client, RemoteFX redirect not working

So I work IT for a small company and we are testing and considering rolling out Dell WYSE Rx0L thin clients to our employees. So far all is going well, except for our set up for our Data Entry dept. For that specific dept I need to set up a…
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HP ProLiant DL380 Gen9 : does not detect USB keyboard/Mouse after legacy BIOS boot up

I have a HP proliant DL380 gen 9 which was working just fine, but after a reboot both the USB keyboard and mouse are no longer detected after the legacy BIOS startup. I tried to use them directly connected to the server, and to go through the iLO…
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Poweredge R710 USB 3.0 pcie card boot drive

Is it at all possible to boot the R710 from a pcie USB 3.0 card to have that as the boot up drive? And if thats possible which riser does it need to be installed in? Riser 1 or riser 2? Reason for me asking is because I want all 6 3.5" drives…
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