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  2. Category:Time travel devices - Wikipedia

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    This page is a listing of articles for time machines: any fictional, theoretical, or hypothetical device used for time travel. Pages in category "Time travel devices" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total.

  3. Device file - Wikipedia

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    The difference between them lies in how much data is read and written by the operating system and hardware. These together can be called device special files in contrast to named pipes, which are not connected to a device but are not ordinary files either. MS-DOS borrowed the concept of special files from Unix but renamed them devices. [1]

  4. Write once read many - Wikipedia

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    WORM drives preceded the invention of the CD-R, DVD-R and BD-R.An example was the IBM 3363. [1] These drives typically used either a 5.1 in (13 cm) or a 12 in (30 cm) disc in a cartridge, with an ablative optical layer that could be written to only once, and were often used in places like libraries that needed to store large amounts of data.

  5. Device driver - Wikipedia

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    In the context of an operating system, a device driver is a computer program that operates or controls a particular type of device that is attached to a computer or automaton. [1] A driver provides a software interface to hardware devices, enabling operating systems and other computer programs to access hardware functions without needing to ...

  6. Computer data storage - Wikipedia

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    Device mirroring (replication) – A common solution to the problem is constantly maintaining an identical copy of device content on another device (typically of the same type). The downside is that this doubles the storage, and both devices (copies) need to be updated simultaneously with some overhead and possibly some delays.

  7. What Really Happens to Deleted Files on Your Devices? - AOL

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    It is estimated that 560,000 new pieces of malware are detected on a daily basis, and over 1 billion malware programs currently exist.. Malware refers to several different types of malicious ...

  8. Network-attached storage - Wikipedia

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    Network-attached storage typically provide access to files using network file sharing protocols such as NFS, SMB, or AFP. From the mid-1990s, NAS devices began gaining popularity as a convenient method of sharing files among multiple computers, as well as to remove the responsibility of file serving from other servers on the network; by doing ...

  9. View and manage data associated with your account - AOL Help

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    A file containing your data will then start to download to your computer or device. Cancel your download request: 1. Go down to "Download Request In Progress." 2. Click Cancel the download request. 3. Beside the current download request, click Cancel request.