computing

RIP Solaris

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The last UNIX giant of the 90s is now dead.

Get ready for the chip wars!

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Many Bothans died to bring you this post.

50 shades of Cray

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This post is all about Cray computers.

2016 in review

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Here's what happened this year!

An evening with The Woz

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Steve Wozniak (a.k.a. The Woz) was one of the keynote speakers at yesterday’s Fuzenation Technology & Music Summit in Kitchener, Ontario.

The Linux operating system turns 25 years old today

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Linux was created during the same month Tim Berners-Lee created the World Wide Web. Coincidence? I think not.

The World Wide Web turns 25 years old today

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Last month, I posted a blog post detailing NeXT and how Tim Berners-Lee used a NeXT workstation at CERN to create the World Wide Web. I guess you could call that foreshadowing, since today marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web!

The dawn of personal computing

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The coolest oil painting for a vintage computer enthusiast (such as myself).

Some NeXT level stuff

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I managed to get some NeXT workstations this week from a former colleague of mine who also collects vintage computers. For those who don't know what a NeXT workstation is, it's essentially the UNIX system that became Mac OS X, as well as the UNIX system that Tim Berners-Lee used to create the world's first Web server using his new protocol called HTTP (Hyper-Text Transfer Protocol).

PowerShell Essentials for SysAdmins

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Last week, I gave a presentation entitled “The Practical Guide to PowerShell” to the local IT user group (WWITPRO) that went over very well. This blog post is a summary of that presentation.