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I hate to say it but sourceforge feels like the new "Meg" these days, even uBlock Origin tries to block going to sourceforge. Looks like an interesting project though. I love the support of ReactOS, but I wonder if the project is still active at all? The featured last bit of news is from 2011.
I dunno what Meg is, but I did chuckle when uBlock Origin blocked SF. Good for them.
Just buy one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Silex-SX-DS-4000U2-Print-Server-800MHz... . Works awesome, lets you buy the cheap non-workgroup version of pretty much everything (printer, scanner, label printer, ...) and still hook it up to a central server. I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 hooked up this way, which scans directly to Dropbox. Put the scanner anywhere where it's convenient to access, put paper in it, pres…
Hmm I appreciate more work in this field, especially Windoze compatibility, but... as said in Star Wars: Clone Wars... "Fifty tried, fifty died". USBoIP is a minefield.
This is also part of the mainline Linux kernel now (look under drivers/usb/usbip/ and tools/usb/usbip/).
Last I checked, there was someone from Eltima Marketing proposing the site be updated with some revenue sharing deal to their proprietary and costly Windows and etc. USB over IP solution.
Also, there were numerous users in their forums posting signed and patched drivers for modern Windows since the ones available for download aren't signed, so I saw.
I hate to say it but sourceforge feels like the new "Meg" these days, even uBlock Origin tries to block going to sourceforge. Looks like an interesting project though. I love the support of ReactOS, but I wonder if the project is still active at all? The featured last bit of news is from 2011.
I dunno what Meg is, but I did chuckle when uBlock Origin blocked SF. Good for them.
seems the network latency would break the realtime expectations of high data rate USB 3.0 hardware on the USB bus. and using a still image from a webcam seems like the worst use case... there are much better protocols for serving video streams.
What I find really amusing is that back when USB was proposed I argued that rather than create an entirely new infrastructure why not just use Ethernet packets. There are additional protocol types available in the bit encoding and all sorts of infrastructure that already supported layer 2 switching. Plus the "phy" (10/100 at the time) was dirt cheap and already available. It never went anywhere, and at the time I figured that nobody wants to support a standard that they can't see how to make licensing money off of it. Somewhere I have VHDL code for a PC parallel port emulator that ran over my protocol. It fit in a small FPGA with the ethernet MAC so it wasn't like we were talking about a lot of gates. Just no consortium fees and no way to keep people out of the ecosystem you didn't like.
Doing USB over IP is an interesting way of re-creating that work (although mine was multi-master so technically a bit better :-)). Of course these days USB 3.0 is faster than the ethernet port on most machines so it was no doubt doomed from the start. But its fun to do. The SATA over Ethernet stuff that CoRAID did was like that, very nice work.
Just buy one of these: http://www.amazon.com/Silex-SX-DS-4000U2-Print-Server-800MHz... . Works awesome, lets you buy the cheap non-workgroup version of pretty much everything (printer, scanner, label printer, ...) and still hook it up to a central server. I have a Fujitsu ScanSnap ix500 hooked up this way, which scans directly to Dropbox. Put the scanner anywhere where it's convenient to access, put paper in it, pres…