Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. The more distributed ...

SFTP and rsync are two tools that can help you transfer files across networks and the web. Here's how to use them within macOS. There are many occasions on which you need to transfer files between two ...

The whole of modern networking is built upon an unreliable medium. Routing equipment has free license to discard, corrupt, reorder, or duplicate data which it forwards. The understanding of the IP ...

So I have a file server I regularly move files to and from. It's across the country. First the server was in Denver, now it's in Chicago. I'm in Nova Scotia (eastern Atlantic coast). For months I had ...

I'm normally a mac user. On the mac side we have available a great text editor for programmers called TextWrangler. It is free (with a pay-for bigger brother), it does all the proper colouring of text ...