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 ...

Editor's Note: Embedded Systems Architecture, 2nd Edition, is a practical and technical guide to understanding the components that make up an embedded system’s architecture. Offering detailed ...

Now that the WWDC keynote is over, Apple has published the names of the developer sessions to attendees at the conference. Previously masked by placeholder names, there are a bunch of events that ...

(1) For copying, moving, renaming and deleting files, see file manager. (2) The software and method for storing and retrieving files on a disk, SSD or USB drive. A file system is a major component of ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Over the past couple of years, the usurpation of the current Mac's HFS+ file system by Sun's ZFS has been predicted. Sometimes that message has been delivered (incorrectly) by Sun top brass. While Mac ...

Google is now adding a new feature on the Chrome OS that will allow users to retrieve automatically and accidentally deleted files or items on one's Chromebook through the "Trash" file system, similar ...

The computer's master control program. When a computer is turned on, a small "boot program" loads the operating system. Although additional system modules may be loaded as needed, the main part, known ...

In OS X Mavericks, Apple will begin migrating from its own legacy Apple Filing Protocol to Microsoft's SMB2 in an effort to enhance performance, security and cross platform file sharing. Macs running ...

A computer file is a self-contained resource for recording data in a digital storage device, that is available for computer programs to access. A filesystem refers to data structures and methods that ...

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 ...