Article Archive for September 2010
We all know that the most important part of the computer is a processor. It is the heart of the computer or more closely a very powerful brain that delegates all of the tasks. Without …
Linux operating system is popular for its robustness and advanced features. Like every other operating system, Linux has its own style of naming different features and here, volume means the logical partition of the …
It can be a very stressful moment for us when someone accidentally deletes a vital file from their hard drive. Maybe we lose our most important documents, family pictures or music files in the process. …
What is RAID?
RAID is the acronym for either ‘redundant array of inexpensive disks’ or ‘redundant array of independent disks’. When first conceived at UC Berkley the former was the actual term that was coined …
In the Windows operating systems, the default CP-1252 character encoding is used for the Latin alphabet. This character encoding recognizes different types of characters and displays them on your computer screen according to the rules. …
One of the challenging tasks as an IT staff member is to manage and handle data that are already bursting at the seams in the company’s database. Every day companies accumulate more data from the …
Online backup of your data is the best thing to happen to computer users in quite a long time.
Companies like Mozy, Carbonite, and SugarSync automate the process of backing up your computer and then stores …
Backup of your important data is of course a must, but do the risks outweigh the rewards?
Recent studies show that very few of us – less than 6% – actually backup our data every day.
That’s …
There are different types of storage devices available, and we choose one or the other to store our valuable data as per our convenience. Still, hard disk remains the primary storage media in a home …
Data recovery, in simple words, is a procedure of recovering data from storage media which, for some reason, is no longer accessible by usual methods. There are always files, that are too important to be …