Now that so many of us are signed up to cloud storage services, USB drives aren't as ubiquitous as they once were, but they still have their uses. One of those uses is running an entire computer ...

Booting from a USB stick is very helpful for many purposes. However, many factors have to be right for the boot to work ...

Someone I was talking to the other day said he wanted to send me a computer file on a floppy disk. My response was to suppress--barely--a little laugh. It's been a few years since a floppy disk has ...