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 ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows file ...

Mac OS X supports a handful of common file systems—HFS+, FAT32, and exFAT, with read-only support for NTFS. It can do this because the file systems are supported by the OS X kernel. Formats such as ...

If you need to erase a file's contents in addition to its directory entry, you can do so with a couple of easy commands. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

At a recent Linux conference in Melbourne, Australia, Linus Torvalds said the following about Windows Vista and Mac OS X. “I don’t think they’re equally flawed – I think Leopard is a much better ...

Sun Microsystems chief executive has revealed that Apple will be using ZFS as the file system for the forthcoming OS X 10.5 Leopard that is due for launch in October. At a company event in Washington ...

Yesterday, in passing, I mentioned that I'd like to see Windows evolve into an operating system where the OS, installed applications and user data were each contained in separate layers. I didn't go ...

Spotlight is a great tool for finding documents, music, and other files on your Mac, but it won't search for certain kinds of files. If you need to locate a specific hidden, packaged, or system file, ...

A bug in OS X 10.7.3 exposes legacy FileVault users, but there are some workarounds to prevent this from happening. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to ...