Archive for the ‘Engineering’ Category

Windows 7 Legacy Acer Upgrade

It’s time to induce new life into my old Acer Aspire notebook. And what better way to do this than with a fresh install of Windows. Windows 7 has been around for a couple of months, and claims to run on, almost, the same hardware as Windows XP does. Well let’s put it to the [...]

Why USB-IF ruins USB with 3.0

The Universal Serial Bus Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has updated their Specification to level 3.0 last summer.  A quick summary why the new specification is going to ruin USB as we know it. The revision has added a new type of USB called: Super Speed.
Changelog 3.0 vs. 2.0
The new standard in a nutshell.
Target
Support up to 4.8 [...]