For years, tech companies (well, certain tech companies) tooted their horns about a future in which files didn’t matter. You don’t even need a file manager of any sort, they told us—and, in fact, we ...
When you’re looking to download a large file on the web, say an Ubuntu distribution, a common method of doing so is via BitTorrent. BitTorrent is a P2P file sharing protocol (popularized by Napster) ...
My buddy Jason Perlow had a bad day. When he tried to download Mac OS X Lion's 4GBs, he ran into an hour-and-a-half of online road-block. When the download finally did start though, he was able to ...