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Digital Native

The term digital native describes younger generations that grew up in the technology age. Most people who are digital natives...

Performance Tuning

Businesses are increasing their workloads in ways that can lead to performance issues for various systems, servers, and databases. Performance...

First Come First Served (FCFS)

First Come First Served (FCFS) is a non-preemptive scheduling algorithm in data structures also known as FIFO (First In, First...

How to Reimage a Computer 

Reimaging is the process of performing a factory reset on a computer, deleting all of the data from its hard...

LED

A light emitting diode (LED) is an electronic component that emits (gives off) light when an electrical current is passed...

How to Clean a Computer’s Hard Drive  

The hard disk drive within a computer stores all of the device’s persistent, or secondary, storage. As computer users download...

How to Reboot Your Computer on Windows, Mac and Linux

  To reboot your computer means to restart it by closing out open programs, wiping any current processes residing in...

Binary System

The binary system in computing uses the base 2 number system to power the majority of  computational processes. Unlike the...

CSV

A CSV or .csv is a comma separated values file that separates data values using commas or another common delimiter....

USB Port

A USB port is a connection point for devices that support wired Universal Serial Bus (USB) connections. It was introduced...

Superword Level Parallelism

Superword level parallelism (SLP) is an advanced method of traditional vectorization that facilitates parallelism across loop iterations, SIMD, and basic...

Heuristic

Heuristic, pronounced hyoo-ri-stihk, is a Greek term for individually finding or discovering. In computer science, it refers to a method...