We turned an old PowerMac G4 400Mhz machine into our file server.
As long as header information is properly encoded on individual MP3s (often not the case if you are trading tunes on Napster), the machine will automatically file music so you can retrieve it by artist, genre and album name.
The Espresso Book Machine will turn a PDF file into a 300-page book in four minutes flat, at a cost of one penny per page including a full-color cover.
So if you pop in a DVD "infected" with Protect DVD-Video, it can't be read by Windows Media Player, Media Center Edition, or any DirectShow-based software, thanks to a Universal Disc Format that tricks your machine into believing that the IFO file is zero bytes long.
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If you don't have a spare machine lying around to serve duty as a file server, you can either get a cheapo bare bones PC to fill the role, or invest in an external storage solution.
The a significant number of organizations could probably make quite a bit of hay from using Splunk, a distributed software for distilling and analyzing machine data that can be applied to data in file systems, in databases, or in Hadoop clusters.
You have to go back to that machine, access the Google Drive website and download the file to your hard drive.
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"Sneakernet" is an old jargon term used to describe the act of having to carry a computer file on a floppy disk or other media from a machine in one room to another.
There, a DNA-sequencing machine fired lasers at the fragments and read their genetic code, yielding a computer file in the form of As, Cs, Gs and Ts.
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