Jason Eckert's Website and Blog

NeXTSTEP is cool

2010-08-16 +

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And it's the UNIX that eventually became macOS and iOS.

Jaron Lanier on technology

2010-05-23 +

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Some key points from someone at the forefront of our social-technical evolution.

BlackBerry 950 teardown

2010-04-11 +

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Guess what it's got inside?

Copyright in Canada

2010-01-23 +

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Everyone working in tech should understand copyright!

The Amazon Kindle ROCKS!

2009-12-22 +

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It really is a great device. Read this post to find out why.

The famous Pentium FDIV bug

2009-06-08 +

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I can't think of the Pentium without thinking of this bug ;-)

Anatomy of an AS/400

2009-04-14 +

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The AS/400 was perhaps the most stable and useful system of the early 1990s. Many companies ran their financials (at minimum) on this platform.

The death of SGI

2009-04-01 +

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Of of the great UNIX giants is now bankrupt.

10 years of UserFriendly.org

2009-03-08 +

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The nerdiest sysadmin web comic on the Internet.

Happy Epoch Day!

2009-02-13 +

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