When you need to know when a file or folder appears, disappears or is renamed -- in fact, if almost anything at all happens in the file system -- you can have Windows notify your application so that ...

I'm running some simulations using the joblib library. For that, I have some number of parameter combinations, each of which I run 100,000 times. I'd now like to write the result of each simulation to ...

On the Windows platform, the C++ language offers several ways to process a file. We'll look at four approaches for serial IO access. Reading and writing to a file is one of the most required features ...

Triggering scripts with incron and systemd. It is, at times, important to know when things change in the Linux OS. The uses to which systems are placed often include high-priority data that must be ...

Typically, most applications consist of both batch and online workloads. This is true even today, when most of our attention has turned to online and web-based interaction. Sure, online activities are ...

We look at block vs file storage for contemporary workloads, and find it’s largely a case of trade-offs between cost, complexity and the level of performance you can settle for.

Do you have a large PST file that you want to split into multiple smaller files? PST email files are usually large in size and are prone to get corrupted and damaged. Hence, it is better to split a ...

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