On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 6:41 PM, Steve Blackmore <st...@pilotltd.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:15:29 +0100, you wrote: > > > >When I've learned something about hardware interfaces and reliability in > the past two or three years then it is to stay as far away from USB as > possible whenever something else than a classical HID (Mouse, keyboard, > flash drive, etc.) should be connected to a computer. > > A bit of a sweeping statement :) > > There are good USB based controllers out there that work perfectly well. > All depends on good hardware design and how the software/firmware uses > it. The majority are poorly implemented and poor PC setup also > contributes a fair amount of problems. In windows most don't turn off > hardware power saving and then moan when the USB port goes to sleep. In > fact the majority aren't even aware it exists or where to find it! BTW - > same applies to ethernet ports ;) > > Steve Blackmore > Leave it to Windoze to turn off important hardware. About the only time that should apply is on a laptop when not plugged in or docked. If that's a default setting, that's just stupid. How do they implement wake-on-lan if they power down the ethernet? Another reason to use Unix/Linux as your operating system. Mark ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Flow-based real-time traffic analytics software. Cisco certified tool. Monitor traffic, SLAs, QoS, Medianet, WAAS etc. with NetFlow Analyzer Customize your own dashboards, set traffic alerts and generate reports. Network behavioral analysis & security monitoring. All-in-one tool. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=126839071&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
