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File systems have been around for as long as computers have been invented. Over the past 40 years, what used to be a little invention on a thinking machine has grown into an enormous industry with ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Note, this article deals with client-side JavaScript. For a client and server-side JavaScript ...

It's the day after Independence Day in the US, and much of our staff is just returning to their preferred work machines. If this was 1997 instead of 2018, that would mean booting up BeOS for some. The ...

If you want to be a sysadmin or network administrator of any kind, there’s a fundamental technology you really need to understand—DNS, the Domain Name System. There was a time when a sysadmin with no ...

Have you ever needed to format a new hard drive or USB drive, and were given the option of selecting from acronyms like FAT, FAT32, or NTFS? Or did you once try plugging in an external device, only ...

File, block and object are fundamental to how users and applications access and modify data storage. That’s been the case for decades, and the transition to the cloud has seen that remain so – but ...

Windows Explorer has always seemed like a part of a small car’s toolkit: perfectly usable, but limited to the basic functions. Over the years, Microsoft has repeatedly revised the software and added a ...

A file extension is a suffix that is added to the end of a file name after a dot. It is usually two to four letters long. File extensions help Windows and other operating systems to know the standard ...

Jim Wilkerson tells me that he “opened a WordPad document that I have been working on for about two weeks…the last ten or so pages were not there.” You can’t ...