Stands for Universal Serial Bus. Is a method of connecting devices to a computer. Most smartphones now use microUSB cables to charge and sync.
Universal Serial Bus (USB) is a specification to establish communication between devices and a host controller (usually personal computers), developed and invented by Ajay Bhatt while working for Intel. USB is intended to replace many varieties of serial and parallel ports.
Universal serial bus, a connection technology for attaching peripheral devices to a computer, providing fast data exchange
The Universal Serial Bus is probably going to replace the serial and parallel interfaces. USB enables the effortless connection of peripheral devices without the need to install cards into the computer or reconfigure parts of the operating system.
Conventional PCI (PCI is an initialism formed from Peripheral Component Interconnect, part of the PCI Local Bus standard and often shortened to PCI) is a computer bus for attaching hardware devices in a computer.
(Peripheral Connect Interface) an advanced expansion-bus standard for internal peripheral devices, used most commonly by high performance graphics adapters.
Peripheral Component Interconnect
A standard for connecting computers and their peripherals
Booting grub from the USB
With the USB drive plugged in, there is access to eight (8) different OS installs. All on one USB drive. Here's the menu.lst on hd(0,2):
default saved
timeout 4
title data (no booting)
configfile (hd0,2)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title Ubuntu 7.04
savedefault
configfile (hd0,1)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title grub (no booting)
configfile (hd0,2)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title Ubuntu 7.10
savedefault
configfile (hd0,4)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title Debian Etch, 2007-09-19
savedefault
configfile (hd0,5)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title Knoppix 5.1.1
savedefault
configfile (hd0,6)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title Ubuntu 7.10-amd64
savedefault
configfile (hd0,7)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title Ubuntu 8.04 server (alpha)
savedefault
configfile (hd0,8)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title Ubuntu 8.04 desktop (alpha)
savedefault
configfile (hd0,9)/boot/grub/menu.lst
title CentOS 5.1 x86_64
savedefault
configfile (hd0,10)/boot/grub/menu.lst
usb connector
This is the USB A - USB mini B connector that I picked up to add the mini usb connector to my cvs camcorder - after removing the plastic housing.