The hard thing about keeping a job in the technology field is that it is constantly changing. Just this past summer $WORK fired several mainframe workers who could not keep up. They got stuck on one technology that they knew how to operate, and failed to evolve when the field did. Now [...]
I’ve been looking into going to grad school again, mainly because I just can’t sit still. All I can say is holy crap is grad school expensive! Since I live close to Ames I’ve been looking at Iowa State, and since I still have to work full time I’ve been looking at their [...]
I ran into yet another snag trying to write a software review for some Windows antivirus software last night. I have XP loaded in a VirtualBox VM to test software for the reviews. I thought it’d be a pretty good set up, test each piece of software in its own clean environment, then [...]
I just spent the past 10 minutes trying to get this article I wrote for BrightHub posted using their online writers application. I’m not sure what language they are using, or what platform the site is running on, but I tried Chrome, Firefox, and finally, out of desperation, Internet Explorer 7, all with the same [...]
There’s a lot to think about in the new MacBook line. The aluminum MacBooks are unquestionably what I wanted in the white MacBook that I have now: sturdy construction, fast graphics, and a sleek powerbook look to them. Apple has further blurred the line between their professional and consumer line, something they started [...]
Up until my post about graduating from college, my writing online has been almost entirely technical. Over the years I’ve gone from writing and developing content online with the intent of making a living off of it, to writing because its something that I enjoy doing, and something that I believe I need more [...]
¶ System P
The more I learn about IBM’s P-Series UNIX systems, the more impressed I am. I’ve been a very harsh critic of them in the past, but that may have just been my ignorance of the platform. The P is, no doubt, expensive… however, when you look at what it can do, and at [...]