Yes. Desktop Authority allows you to centrally allow and/or deny devices based on device serial number, or VID/PID combination.

You can use the Web Utility to restrict access to movies based on their MPAA ratings (e.g., G, PG-13, R). You can set a different restriction on each viewing zone. The Kaleidescape System completely hides the existence of restricted movies — no titles, no cover art, no indication of any kind. You can also use the Web Utility to create passwords that can be used to override these restrictions.

The best answer to this is a firm "maybe". DOS device drivers are available for most USB and Firewire controllers. If such drivers are added to a DOS boot diskette so that your USB or Firewire drive is "seen" by DOS, SpinRite will also be able to "see" and operate with it. However, the performance of the drive through the DOS drivers and the serial (USB/Firewire) cable will likely be far lower than if the external drive were connected directly to a PC's motherboard controller.

At this time, only Windows/DOS FAT (vfat, fat32) are supported. If there is sufficient interest, we could investigate adding Linux ext2/ext3 support. (Contact us if you want this support to be added.) We do not support NTFS (NT, XP), HFS+ (Mac OS), or other formats; do not your USB device using those filesystem formats if you plan to use it on the Linux lab machines.

Yes. There are USB receipt printers, cash drawers and scanners available. If you don't see an interface type you are interested in, please call us.

Hardware: You need a USB port in your computer. Most computers build since 1998 have at least two built in USB connectors. You can also get PCI and CardBus USB adapters for older computers. Software: For Wintel computers, you need Windows98, WindowsME, Windows2000, WindowsXP, or a recent version of Linux. There is limited USB support on Windows95 OSR 2.1, and none on WindowsNT. For USB support on Apple Macintosh computers you need MacOS 8.1 or later.

They are a chip of flash memory in a little case with a USB plug on the end. They're called Flash Drives, USB Drives, Thumb Drives, etc. They have no moving parts (unlike the similar units called MicroDrives) and are quite dependable. When plugged in they look and act like a server or hard drive and are safe to work from. Be sure to use the appropriate unmounting, ejecting or other disconnect procedure for the computer you are using before unplugging them. Data may be lost if you don't.

This list is by no means exhaustive but attempts to cover as many USB devices as possible that are known to work under Solaris. Also, in addition to many new devices being introduced into the market each day, many may have undergone revisions or updates to their firmware or hardware even though they may be listed with the same model number or are no longer available.

Refer to System Administration Guide: Basic Administration (for Solaris 9), Devices and File Systems (for Solaris 10 and Express release) For the Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 OS releases, the latest updates will install the USBA1.0 kernel interfaces as part of a Dual Framework. The Dual Framework consists of two USB frameworks: the newer USBA 1.0 framework which supports USB 2.0 devices, and the original framework of the OS release.

USB Audio drivers implement a subset of the 1.0 USB audio spec. Generally, simple USB audio devices compliant to USB audio spec 1.0 on www.usb.org work well with Solaris 10 or later. However, USB audio devices usually have a very short shelf life and many devices that the Solaris USB audio driver supports are no longer available. One exception is the Griffin iMic Audio adapter. Check out http://www.griffin.com. Some Logitech audio devices have also been reported to work.

Yes. A simple designation can make sure that anyone with a stop on a certain street must be picked up door-side. Additionally, the system can tag types of students (such as Special Needs) who receive a curb-to-curb and right-side stop automatically, regardless of where they live.

Third Eye Premium Finance has a granular approach to security.Third Eye Premium Finance provides you with Multi-Tired security. The system allows you to assign privileges to all your users and also allows partitioning of data between the users, which in turn enables you to control 'who' sees what.

Yes. You may specify a list of suffixes (e.g. mpg,mp3) that may be disallowed from being downloaded. This is in addition to restrictions that may be placed on downloads by the robots.txt file stored on your server.

How to relax restrictions on CD/DVDs? When accessed, a CD/DVD is auto-mounted ("started") with certain restrictions that prevent running programs or seeing hidden files on the CD/DVD. To allow program execution directly off the CD, "exec" option has to, and "suid" option might have to be enabled. To see hidden and associated files, "nohide" should be enabled.

Obtain a USB hub that has several USB ports (available at electronics stores). Use the hub to connect the other USB devices. Now connect your Companion 5 speaker system to a USB port on the computer. You need to use the USB connection to provide audio processing for 5.1 digital sources, but you can also connect the audio output jack on your computer to the input on your Companion 5 control pod, using a 1/8-inch-stereo-male-to-1/8-inch-stereo-male audio cable.

If you install the latest Solaris Express release, you get the latest USB fixes for Solaris 10. If you do not wish to install Solaris Express build but want to install patches over your Solaris 10 installation, the following patches are available: Kernel patch: 118855-19(x86),118833-20(sparc) and above. (This kernel patch includes latest usb fixes such as power budgeting, 'libusb should just work', ehci fix to enable ZFS on USB etc.

It is generally possible to use modern, USB-based memory sticks under Linux; however, not all USB memory sticks will work on our systems. Most USB memory stick devices produced since 2003 will work, while older devices are less likely to be supported. In general, the older the device, the less chance that it will work. The only way to know for sure is to try to use it. We do not provide any kind of card reader on any of the machines.

No. However, the new USB 2.0 archiclecture allows more high-speed USB 1.1 devices, such as web cams, audio devices, to share the bandwidth. Developers need to follow USB 2.0 spec in order to design higher speed peripherals that can take advantage of the extra bandwidth. USB 1.1 devices still operate at 12Mbps at full-speed and 1.5Mbps at low-speed on a USB 2.0 bus. Even though USB 1.1 devices won't run any faster, they can work alongside of USB 2.0 devices on the same bus.

The entire bus under the USB 1.1 root hub will slow to 12Mbps. The operating system will probably notify the user about the sub-optimal configuration and recommend for a better course of action. If several USB 1.1 hubs are connected to a USB 2.0 bus, then each of the USB 1.1 hubs will get a full 12Mbps bandwidth.