powershell's Copy-Item does not handle sparse files correctly, which can leads to devastating disk-full situations. We use sparse files in our bioinformatics toolchain since years, mostly on UNIX.

On this day in 1985, Microsoft unveiled its leap into the graphical user interface world with Windows 1.0, a piece of software that would change the personal computing world forever. Well, almost. As ...

There’s still a great application to be had here, but it needs to figure out its path and get an update out that supports APFS for starters. For over 20 years, software developer Alsoft has been ...

Ask the publishers to restore access to 500,000+ books. The Internet Archive keeps the record straight by preserving government websites, news publications, historical documents, and more. If you find ...

Doing an rsync between two spinning rust drives attached to the same hub causes a suspected controller lockup. The symptom is [ 194.841355] xhci-hcd xhci-hcd.0: xHCI host not responding to stop ...

In this article, we will see how to fix the “0x80042304: The volume shadow copy provider is not registered in the system” error on Windows 11/10. This error is ...

Microsoft reminded users that insecure Transport Layer Security (TLS) 1.0 and 1.1 protocols will be disabled soon in future Windows releases. The TLS secure communication protocol is crafted to ...

Top 5 things you didn’t know about Windows 1.0 Your email has been sent Windows still has more than 75% of the market on the desktop, but that wasn’t inevitable ...

Lucas Brooks, an avid Windows fan who digs through and analyzes its early iterations, recently shared his discovery of an easter egg that's been hiding in Windows 1.0 for nearly 37 years. Brooks ...

Microsoft’s Windows operating system was first introduced in 1985. A lot has changed since then, and when we try to look back, we come across a few fond remembrances. Called Windows Throwback theme, ...