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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.

2015 in review

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Yes, I actually did stuff this year...

World of Commodore conference

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Seriously, this actually exists.

Breathe new life into an old PowerBook G4 using Linux

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The latest Linux PPC distributions run MUCH faster on it!

The fastest computer I have ever owned!

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Seriously, it's FAST.

The evolution of BYOD

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BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device, and is a mobile email strategy that is dominating the IT landscape today. But to fully understand what BYOD is, and why it’s important today, we first have to examine how it evolved.