Many can be used on a standalone basis without a computer, using a memory card or USB connector.

Three open-source keyer / keyset designs are available: The pickey a ps / 2 device based on the PIC microcontroller, the spiffchorder a USB device based on the Atmel AVR family of microcontrollers, and the GKOS keypad driver for Linux as well as the Gkos library for the Atmel / Arduino open source board.

The band sold recordings of the shows on the Intriguer tour on USB flash drives and made individual live tracks available for free download.

Computer files can be also stored on other media in some cases, such as magnetic tapes, compact discs, Digital Versatile Discs, Zip drives, USB flash drives, etc.

A device on the PCI bus or USB is identified by two ID's which consist of 4 numbers and / or letters A to F. The vendor ID identifies the vendor of the device.

Encryption can be used to protect data " at rest ", such as files on computers and storage devices ( e. g. USB flash drives ).

Fees are usually charged for distribution on compact discs and bootable USB drives, or for services of installing or maintaining the operation of free software.

Wireless internet is portable: users can connect nearly anywhere through a receiver ( connected to the client via USB or Ethernet ) and it provides download rates between 512 kbit / s and 1 Mbit / s depending on the chosen plan.

As of 2007, virtually all motherboards come with at least four USB ports on the rear, with at least 2 connections on the board internally for wiring additional front ports that may be built into the computer case.

In addition to the original 31. 25 kbit / s ( baud is the signalling rate and is the reciprocal of the shortest signalling element ; bits / sec is the data rate ) current-loop transported on 5-pin DIN, other connectors have been used for the same electrical data, and transmission of MIDI streams in different forms over USB, IEEE 1394 a. k. a. FireWire, and Ethernet is now common.

MIDI over USB is increasingly common on musical instruments.

The necessary keys are usually too large to memorize ( but see proposal Passmaze ) and must be stored on a local computer, security token or portable memory device, such as a USB flash drive or even floppy disk.

* Envaulting technology is a password-free way to secure data on e. g. removable storage devices such as USB flash drives.

There are also many turntables on the market designed to be plugged into a computer via a USB port for needle dropping purposes.

A Mini-mouse is a small egg-sized mouse for use with laptop computers ; usually small enough for use on a free area of the laptop body itself, it is typically optical, includes a retractable cord and uses a USB port to save battery life.

Devices that convert USB to RS-232 may not work with all software on all personal computers and may cause a reduction in bandwidth along with higher latency.

The SA-1101 provided additional peripherals to complement those integrated on the SA-1100 such as a video output port, two PS / 2 ports, a USB controller and a PCMCIA controller that replaces that on the SA-1100.

In many computing contexts, " TTY " has become the name for any text terminal, such as an external console device, a user dialing in to the system on a modem on a serial port device, a printing or graphical computer terminal on a computer's serial port or the RS-232 port on a USB-to-RS-232 converter attached to a computer's USB port, or even a terminal emulator application in the window system using a pseudo terminal device.

Unlike USB, FireWire uses intelligent controllers that can manage their own transmission without attention from the main CPU.

For example, the Northbridge and Southbridge chips are located near each other and to the hardware they control like CPU, RAM and expansion ports ( PS / 2, USB, LPT, etc.

The company also manufactures and resells XLR8 brand Apple CPU Upgrades and USB Video Accessories.

Additionally the level of complexity is continuously growing as devices are required to manage many variables such as serial, USB, TCP / IP, Bluetooth, Wireless LAN, trunk radio, multiple channels, data and voice, enhanced graphics, multiple states, multiple threads, numerous wait states and so on.

Some features included in version 1. 3. 4 include: capture from FireWire cameras, fast and frame-accurate navigation / scrubbing, vi keybindings, storyboard view with drag-n-drop, trimmer with 3 point insert editing, fine-grain thumbnail viewer, support for jog shuttle USB devices, drag-n-drop from file manage, Undo / Redo up to 99X.

# The UPS to report its status to the computer it powers via a communications link such as a serial port, Ethernet, GSM / GPRS or USB

The Hi-MD format, introduced in 2004, marked a return to the data storage arena with its 1 GB discs and ability to act as a USB drive.

According to its abstract, it specifies the operating conditions of an integrated circuit card that provides a USB interface.

The PCMCIA association was dissolved in 2009 and all of its activities are now managed by the USB Implementer's Forum, according to the PCMCIA website.

The first Macintosh to move from ADB was the iMac in 1998, which featured USB in its place.

The best and most reliable method for operating-system-level rootkit detection is to shut down the computer suspected of infection, and then to check its storage by booting from an alternative trusted medium ( e. g. a rescue CD-ROM or USB flash drive ).

It's bootable from a CD or USB and has its own operating systems so it's completely independent from external software.

The Roku has a USB port on one of its models which can be used with an external hard drive.

Located in the St. Boniface neighbourhood in the city of Winnipeg and affiliated with the University of Manitoba, USB now has 1, 250 regular students and more than 5, 000 enrolments in its Continuing Education Division, which includes a language school.

Despite its new university status, USB continues to be affiliated with the University of Manitoba, which it helped establish in 1877.

A pivotal hub of French-language education and of Manitoba's francophone community, USB now welcomes students from around the world and its reputation for excellence has spread far beyond Canada's borders.

With its magnificent Tyndall stone façade, the main USB building houses two gymnasiums, the Sportex fitness centre, a library, a chapel, the Étienne Gaboury student centre, the campus radio station, an amphitheatre, computer facilities, a performance hall and an art gallery.

Flash memory ( in particular, NAND flash ) has an established and growing niche as a replacement for magnetic hard disks in high performance enterprise computing installations because it has no moving parts ( making it more robust ) and has a much lower latency ; as removable storage such as USB sticks, because in lower capacity ranges it can be made smaller and cheaper than hard disks ; and on portable devices such as notebook computers and cell phones because of its lower size and weight, better tolerance of physical stress caused by e. g. shaking or dropping, and low power consumption.

IBM UltraPort was a nonstandard USB 1. 1 port used by IBM on its range of ThinkPad laptop computers.

This stack is capable of detecting any USB device by its class, but printers still require a driver to be controlled.

Unlike its predecessor the Natural Pro, the 4000 does not include USB ports for additional devices such as a mouse.

The OHCI standard for USB is similar, but supports USB 1. 1 ( full and low speeds ) only ; so as a result its register interface looks completely different.

eXtensible Host Controller Interface ( xHCI ) is the newest host controller standard that improves speed, power efficiency and virtualization over its predecessors The goal was also to define a USB host controller to replace UHCI / OHCI / EHCI.

More recently, virtually all laptop equipment has 480 Mbit / s Hi-Speed USB 2. 0 ports, and most types of peripheral which formerly used a PC Card connection are available for USB or are built-in, making the ExpressCard less necessary than the PC Card was in its day.

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A disk editor is a computer program that allows its user to read, edit, and write raw data ( at character or hexadecimal, byte-levels ) on disk drives ( e. g., hard disks, USB flash disks or removable media such as a floppy disks ); as such, they are sometimes called sector editors, since the read / write routines built into the electronics of most disk drives require to read / write data in chunks of sectors ( usually 512 bytes ).

The 6131 does not include an internal hard disk drive, but can receive PVR capabilities when an external hard disk drive is connected to its USB 2. 0 port.