CentOS is a free version of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system. It is built from the same source code as Red Hat and is designed to be used in a business environment. Unlike Red Hat, it ...

When transferring text files between Linux/Unix and Windows systems, you may encounter issues with line breaks and file formatting. This is because Windows uses both a line feed (LF) and a carriage ...

Technology comes and goes faster than we realize — there are products and services that were mainstays just a decade or two ago that are now extinct. The key to preserving digital media is through ...

Last week I gave you some useful Windows tips; this week I thought I’d continue the tips theme, and move to Microsoft Word. Actually, when you’re copying from a Web page, things get a little ...

Microsoft Excel has an import wizard, but if you structure the text correctly, you can bypass the wizard altogether. We don’t open foreign files with Microsoft Excel—or do we? When importing a .txt or ...

Using a plug-in for the popular Windows text editor, Notepad++, you can easily encrypt selected text and entire text files. Ed Rhee Ed Rhee, a freelance writer based in the San Francisco Bay Area, is ...

A file that contains data made up of ASCII characters. It is essentially raw text just like the words you are reading now. Each byte in the file contains one character that conforms to the standard ...