Computer memory saves all data in digital form. There is no way to store characters directly. Each character has its digital code equivalent: ASCII code (for American Standard Code for Information ...

There's an old engineering joke that says: “Standards are great … everyone should have one!” The problem is that – very often – everyone does. Consider the case of storing textual data inside a ...

There is no standard that says keyboards must map to something and it's up to the OS to interpret what each keycode means. The keycode sent out for the "Z" key on US English QWERTY style layouts may ...

The sequential order of ASCII data. In ASCII code, lower case characters follow upper case. True ASCII order would put the words DATA, data and SYSTEM into the following sequence. See ASCII chart.

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 ...

We've seen how easily weak passwords can be hacked, and we've also discussed how you can easily memorize or automatically generate and fill in secure passwords. Here's a great technique to add an ...