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3 unusual facts about computer file


Computer file

Computer files can be also stored on other media in some cases, such as magnetic tapes, compact discs, Digital Versatile Discs, Zip drives, USB flash drives, etc.

Persistent browser-based game

Games relying on client-side technology are rarer due to the security aspects that must be dealt with when reading and writing from a user's local file system - the web browser doesn't want web pages to be able to destroy the user's computer, and the game designer doesn't want the game files stored in an easily-accessed place where the user can edit them.

Wavelet transform

The goal is to store image data in as little space as possible in a file.


Backporting

In real-life situations, the modifications that a single aspect of the software has undergone may be simple (only a few lines of code have changed) up to heavy and massive (many modifications spread across multiple files of the code).

Bajoo

Bajoo is a French company, it's a file hosting service which allows to store and share files online, the company is located at la Tour du Pin, in France.

IBM Connections

Any non-section entity in an activity can contain rich-text and custom fields for files, links, text, people and dates.

Torrent file

In the BitTorrent file distribution system, a torrent file is a computer file that contains metadata about files and folders to be distributed, and usually also a list of the network locations of trackers, which are computers that help participants in the system find each other and form efficient distribution groups called swarms.

Write once read many

However, these disks often use a file system based on ISO 9660 that permits additional files, and even revised versions of a file by the same name, to be recorded in a different region of the disk.


see also

Journal

A journal is a book or computer file in which monetary transactions are entered the first time they are processed.

Journaling

Journaling file system, a technique in computer file systems to prevent corruption