Imagine working on a key document in Google Drive, only to find out later that someone made unwanted changes. To prevent this ...

A fundamental of file systems since their inception has been their locking mechanisms. These exist so that different users and applications working on the same file (or region of a file) ...

* I am aware of the various task libraries out there. For internal reasons, I need my own task, even if already out there. I've written a simple custom msbuild task to concatenate some text files to ...

We have a need for users in distributed locations to work on large multimedia files. Right now these files are available to users in a big CIFS filetree. Although high-bandwidth VPN connections are ...

Most users, when watching movies or listening to music on their Windows 11/10 PC, decide to take a break; no matter which media player or app is being used, the media will continue to play with the ...

The newly approved Python Enhancement Proposal 751 gives Python a standard lock file format for specifying the dependencies of projects. Here’s the what, why, and when. Python Enhancement Proposal ...

Some users have been complaining that VMWare apps have been showing the following error message when trying to open a Virtual Machine. Failed to start the virtual ...

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 ...