X-files unit

On the television series The X-Files, an "X-File" is a fictional case that has been deemed unsolvable or given minimal-priority status by the Federal Bureau of Investigation; these files transferred to the X-Files unit. The files constitute an unassigned project outside the Bureau mainstream that is more or less concerned with unexplained phenomena, fringe pseudo-scientific theories, and non-credible evidence of paranormal activity.

History

First X-Files

According to the series mythology the very first X-File was initiated in 1946 by J. Edgar Hoover. It contained information about a series of murders that occurred in Northwest America during World War II, seven of which took place in Browning, Montana. Each of the victims were basically ripped to shreds and consumed, as if by a wild animal. However, many of the victims were found in their homes, as if they had allowed the killer to enter. In 1946, police cornered what they believed to be such an animal in a cabin in Glacier National Park. They shot it, but when they entered the cabin to retrieve the carcass, they found only the body of Richard Watkins. The murders stopped that year. Believing that the case was too bizarre to be solved adequately, Hoover labeled it unsolved and locked it away in the hope that it would eventually be forgotten. However, the murders resumed in 1954 and continued to occur every few years.

File

File or filing may refer to:

Services

  • File (tool)
  • Filing (metalworking)
  • Nail file
  • Information

  • Document, a written or drawn representation of thoughts
  • File folder, a folder for holding loose papers
  • Filing (legal), submitting a document to the clerk of a court
  • Computing

  • Computer file, a resource for storing information
  • file URI scheme
  • file (command), a Unix program for determining the type of data contained in a computer file
  • Other uses

  • File (formation), a single column of men one in front of the other
  • File (chess), a column of the chessboard
  • Filé powder, a culinary ingredient used in Cajun and Creole cooking
  • Filé (band), a Cajun musical ensemble from Louisiana, U.S
  • Filè, a class of Irish poets
  • Electronic Language International Festival, an art and technology festival held yearly in São Paulo, Brazil
  • Jake Files (born 1972), a member of the Arkansas State Senate
  • See also

  • Filing cabinet or file cabinet
  • Glossary of chess

    This page explains commonly used terms in chess in alphabetical order. Some of these have their own pages, like fork and pin. For a list of unorthodox chess pieces, see Fairy chess piece; for a list of terms specific to chess problems, see Glossary of chess problems; for a list of chess-related games, see Chess variants.

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    Computer file

    A computer file is a resource for storing information, which is available to a computer program and is usually based on some kind of durable storage. A file is "durable" in the sense that it remains available for other programs to use after the program that created it has finished executing. Computer files can be considered as the modern counterpart of paper documents which traditionally are kept in office and library files, and this is the source of the term.

    Etymology

    The word "file" was used publicly in the context of computer storage as early as February, 1950. In an RCA (Radio Corporation of America) advertisement in Popular Science Magazine describing a new "memory" vacuum tube it had developed, RCA stated:

    In 1952, "file" was used in referring to information stored on punched cards.

    In early usage, people regarded the underlying hardware (rather than the contents) as a file. For example, the IBM 350 disk drives were called "disk files". In about 1961 the Burroughs MCP and the MIT Compatible Time-Sharing System introduced the concept of a "file system", which managed several virtual "files" on one storage device, giving the term its present-day meaning. Although the current term "register file" shows the early concept of files, it has largely disappeared.

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