Blog Posts

Funny Internet Shakespeare typo

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While writing the third edition of my Linux book, my copyeditor found a typo. And it's hilarious.

eBook pilot

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We decided to see what it would be like to use eBooks (on a Kindle DX) to teach our IT program. It failed. Miserably.

NeXTSTEP is cool

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

Jaron Lanier on technology

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

BlackBerry 950 teardown

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Guess what it's got inside?

Copyright in Canada

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Everyone working in tech should understand copyright!

The Amazon Kindle ROCKS!

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

The famous Pentium FDIV bug

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

Anatomy of an AS/400

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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

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Of of the great UNIX giants is now bankrupt.