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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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USB/Serial converter, data passes only one way

There's an USB/Serial converter connecting two boxes. Box A has USB end, box B has serial port end. On box A: screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600 On box B (the one I'm trying to connect to from box A): /etc/inittab: ... T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0…
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How can I create a bootable USB ISO stick without formatting the stick

I know that there are many well-known methods for creating a bootable USB stick, but all these alternatives needs to format the USB stick. What I'm looking for is some alternative method to create an USB bootable stick without the need of formatting…
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Adding removable disk to PATH when inserted on Windows

As part of a network engineering team, one of the common problems we have is lack of access to CLI tools when we are diagnosing various windows machines PortQry.exe (not default install on Win2003) psexec (not default install on Windows) plink.exe…
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Performance issues with self-built NAS

I set up a little NAS system for my personal use. It's an Ubuntu system running on a fan-less Atom-powered mini ATX mainboard which I extended with a usb3 pci card to get best possible performance for the whole system. There are 2 USB3 external…
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Rsyncing to a USB drive failing every now and again

I have been using rsync over ssh (cygwin) for some time now from a Windows 2003 Server to back up files to a Debian box which has a USB hard drive attached. The files are rsynced directly to the USB hard drive which is mounted as /media/backup on…
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Use Nagios to monitor toner levels of local USB printers

I have a bunch of computers with local USB attached printers. I'd like to be able to monitor things like paper jams and toner levels with Nagios but all I've been able to find involves using SNMP. How can I use Nagios to monitor local USB…
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Transfer Files From Multiple External USB Drives to Linux Server San Storage

We want to transfer files from multiple external USB drives to a Linux server connected to SAN storage. The USB Drives are formated with NTFS and contain media i.e. Images/Videos and will each range in size from 500GB to 1TB /2TB etc. The Linux…
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Alternative to PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini, possibly via USB?

Are there any decent ways to accomplish PXE booting on a mid-2011 Mac Mini (Core i5)? I need to be able to boot into CloneZilla over the network (as I want to image the Mac Mini's hard drive, and later on clone it to other Mac Minis). I've already…
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Enable/disable USB devices on Windows using Active Directory on certain users

I have been asked to disable access to USB devices on Windows machines for information disclosure reasons. Although this can be done with Active Directory, the problem is that the solution should let us enable access for certain users for limited…
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Networked USB Flash Drive

Is there a product that can be plugged into a computer and appear as a USB flash drive, while in reality it is also say a Samba / FTP server? Along the lines of the Eye-Fi card (www.eye.fi), but wired and more configurable. It could also be a…
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Error 11 Source Disk Windows Server 2008 R2 At LOGIN?? when using USB Drives (not bad drives)

We have been experiencing a VERY odd error and I have no idea where to go from here. When users are logging in to a Standalone Windows 2008 R2 server in workgroup configuration, it causes the following error: Event Log: System Event Source: Disk…
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how to boot and install opensolaris using USB drive

I have a server that does not have a CD/DVD drive.. How can opensolaris be installed using USB interface? specifically what tools/steps that need to be performed to prepare USB flash drive as install media?
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Does mdadm allow to mix sata drives and USB -> sata drives?

I have a working Linux MD array of five drives. We are running out of space. The server doesn't have big usage but it does have to be online. We can't add another controller. Can I add capacity by buying a USB drive case? Does mdadm allow one to…
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ASA's USB ports

I have three USB ports on my Cisco ASA 5505. All Cisco documentation that I've found says that they're for 'future use'. Anyone know if this has been updated? Or if it will be?
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Using Wireless on Windows Server 2008 R2

I've got EDIMAX EW-7318USg - USB network adapter, it works fine in Windows 7 but somehow i couldn't get it to work on my Windows Server 2008 R2 ? Has anyone tried to use Wireless LAN in Server 2008 R2 ? Thanks.
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