Audio Production Laptop

[Gustin Johnson]

Phil wrote:
> Sorry to go off topic, but I'm fascinated by the line:
>> I am not a fan of firewire.
> 
> Not a fan of firewire(more correctly, ieee 1394) because of
> compatability issues or because of the standard itself?
> 
I used to be a fan of ieee 1394, but years of experience have jaded me.
  There are two reasons that I dislike ieee 1394.

The first is that a lot of firewire devices use proprietary protocols to
communicate across the link, which makes them useless to Linux users
(RME Fireface anyone?).  This is not a problem with ieee 1394 per se,
but it means that most firewire audio gear is useless to me.  I used
FFADO back when it was called FreeBob, not a pleasant experience.

The second is that firewire is a security problem.  The idea that an
external device can directly read and copy the contents in RAM without
any sort of authentication or access control scares me.  This is one of
those things that I am glad USB does *not* do.  Even more unbelievable
is that this behaviour is part of the spec.

> I am a fan of firewire, in fact it's my favourite kind of wire.
> Firewire does things that USB simply cannot do, ie, reliably feed my
> 7-year-old computer with 12 channels of audio simultaneously. And I
> easily expand that a great deal.
> 
> Philip Schleihauf
> phil at adjacentfilms.com
> 
> 

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