File systems: digital magic from coffee makers to TikTok
Whether you’re using a smartphone, laptop, or robot vacuum cleaner, any electronic device has a file system. Without it, websites won’t work, your photos and videos with your pets won’t be available, and so on. Today, we’ll try to briefly understand the basic terms and test the selection of a cluster for disk fragmentation.…
An old HDD and a little nostalgia: an engineer recreates defragmentation sounds and visuals in a browser
In most cases, modern computers and laptops are equipped with only silent solid-state drives. HDDs are rarely found in mainstream devices anymore. Along with hard drives, the HDD defragmentation process, which was accompanied by characteristic sounds, has also become a thing of the past. But if anyone misses that «crackling» sound and wants to…
IBM’s leading scientist, Ukrainian Lyubomyr Romankiv, dies in the US — what he invented and how he helped create Apple
At the age of 93, Ukrainian scientist and engineer Lubomyr Romankiv, who worked at IBM for more than 50 years, has passed away in the United States. During his life, he wrote more than 150 scientific articles and patented 67 inventions.
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