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The future of smartphones
Every technology goes through a series of reinventions as it evolves. In this post, we'll examine where smartphones are right now and where they are going.
An evening with The Woz
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
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
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
The coolest oil painting for a vintage computer enthusiast (such as myself).
Some NeXT level stuff
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
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.
Breathe new life into an old PowerBook G4 using Linux
The latest Linux PPC distributions run MUCH faster on it!