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Demonstrating the Power of Apple Silicon using Actuated CI

Janet Jackson's Denial of Service (DoS) Attack

Happy Canada Day!

How an Ancient PowerBook Captured a Summer Vacation

It’s Still Your Call: Ethics in the Age of AI

The Story Behind the Mac vs PC Rivalry — And Where Linux Quietly Took Over

Canada: The Unsung Hero of AI Innovation

Leveraging WSL2 for Systems & Cloud Administration, Cybersecurity, and Software Development

Tips to Evolve Your Tech Career in the Age of AI

2024 in Review

Running an LLM locally using Ollama

Installing a Fedora Linux ARM VM from a Raw Image

Copilot+ PC Review: Windows on ARM is finally here

Maximizing Your Hiking Experience

Practical Cybersafety for Everyone

Configuring GitHub Discussions to provide Blog Comments

7 Tips for a Healthy Digital Lifestyle

Demystifying Artificial Intelligence (AI)

How I Keep my Linux Textbook Updated for New Versions

The Rise of RISC-V and Open Hardware

Tips for Maintaining a Growth Mindset

Remembering Pepper

40 years of Macintosh

Extending the life of an Intel-based Mac using Windows 11

2023 in Review

Setting up a Raspberry Pi Home Server

Essential keyboard shortcuts (Windows/macOS/Linux/UNIX)

Linux Distro Hopping is a Bad Idea

Bob Gunderson Tribute

An Extra Special Family Vacation

Running a Mainstream Linux Distro Natively on Apple Silicon: Fedora Asahi Remix First Impressions

How to Leverage Music for Maximum Tech Productivity

So, you’re curious about software development?

My first textbook is now in its sixth edition

I've now been teaching tech for 25 years!

Linux is making Apple Great Again

The Ultimate Linux ARM64 Workstation

Fun Facts About Linux

The Time I Yoga-Balled an Apple Store Employee

2022 in Review

Reboot your mind once a day

RISCy business: The long and convoluted rise of today's dominant computing platform

How modern open source projects work

How Linux Certification Has Evolved Over The Years

Dual-booting Asahi Linux on your Apple Silicon Mac

The Power of Swag in the Tech Industry

macOS for Linux admins (2022 refresh)

Ontario's Computer Part 2: The LEXICON Server

Ontario's Computer: The Burroughs ICON

Configuring the i3 Window Manager

Brewing the Best Coffee

The Power of RISC architecture

SPARCbook teardown

Understanding the Cult of Mac

2021 in Review

Kubernetes Quickstart

Installing a fast Linux server on an M1-based Mac

ARM on the desktop is here to stay

An overview of cloud buzz words

Work-from-home is the new BlackBerry

Copyleft is dying

It's a great time to be a developer

UNIX/Linux is now a core skill for anyone working in tech

Cybersecurity in a Nutshell

The future looks a lot like mainframe computing

Relating Silicon Valley to the Toronto-Waterloo Corridor

Mastering the Zen of TrackPoint

The computer that saved Apple

An introduction to WireGuard VPN

2020 in review

Seldom discussed tips for working in the tech industry

5 Z shell features that will encourage you to switch from Bash

Why I love teaching online

A brief history of technology

Cybersecurity in the early 1990's

Most people don't want a computer

Open does not always mean Open Source

Tracing difficult shell scripts

So, you think online conferencing is new?

Fundamental computer science concepts every software developer should know

The old Web was fun

Customizing macOS for development

FreeBSD UNIX for Linux sysadmins

Microsoft turns 45

Getting the most out of your online course

Tips to survive teaching an online course

How to write an academic technical textbook

I finally beat Tetris!

2019 in review

Reviving an ancient BSD UNIX workstation

Why you should use technology less

What it's like a year after quitting Facebook

How to learn vi (vim)

What Nokia tells us about the Internet in 2008

The different faces of open source software

Apple is regressing to their 1990s disposition

Rest in Peace, MAD Magazine

The UNIX Philosophy in 2019

The Dark Side of GNU

How ricing shifted from cars to computers

SPARCbook 3000ST: The coolest 90s laptop

Pop!_OS: The first real Linux desktop

The Power of Open Source Software

Cult of Mac Book

35th Anniversary of the Macintosh Computer

Using the Windows Subsystem for Linux

2018 in review

SSH Foo

Three reasons why incubators breed failure

How the cloud grew up around Linux

A simple guide to git

Devops Demystified

Blockchain for IT pros

Halt and Catch Fire

Lessons I've learned from teaching 20 years of IT

Ultimate UNIX timeline

RIP PowerBook

The history of IT certification

2017 in review

RIP Solaris

Windows and macOS could move to Linux

Get ready for the chip wars!

Why you should buy an old arcade machine

Finding Idylwild Park

50 shades of Cray

Futuretech '92

The future of smartphones

2016 in review

10 years of Facebook humour

An evening with The Woz

The Linux operating system turns 25 years old today

The World Wide Web turns 25 years old today

The dawn of personal computing

Some NeXT level stuff

Video Game Reflections

PowerShell Essentials for SysAdmins

2015 in review

World of Commodore conference

Video game transcendental meditation

Breathe new life into an old PowerBook G4 using Linux

2014 in review

GMOs explained

The fastest computer I have ever owned!

The evolution of BYOD

100 silly facts about ME

George H. Jenner

Microsoft ReFS vs Oracle ZFS - FIGHT!

Great Canadian Appathon 4

Impressed by a 10 year old desktop computer

Why BlackBerry failed

A look back at the dotcom bubble

GAME ON 2.0 wraps up!

The evolution of Information Technology

Reddit took down my website!

Marshall McLuhan was right

GAME ON 2.0 and triOS College

Driving educational change

The best keynote presentation of all time!

The Galaga no fire cheat mystery

Mocap in action

A successful hackathon at our Kitchener campus!

Arcade game CPUs

How the term 'cloud' was invented

How to properly pronounce Galaga

Guide to buying old arcade games

How our video games evolved over time

QNX on a moon rover

SOPA and PIPA

Using Google like a pro

2011 in review

Perspective on RIM

RIM is dead. Long live RIM.

Hard drives are dead

How I threw my back out playing Angry Birds

The transputer

The rise and fall of DEC

All about DEC

Atari 2600 deep dive

The Gospel of Tux v1.0

BCE, CE, and the new IE

Funny Internet Shakespeare typo

eBook pilot

NeXTSTEP is cool

Jaron Lanier on technology

BlackBerry 950 teardown

Copyright in Canada

The Amazon Kindle ROCKS!

The famous Pentium FDIV bug

Anatomy of an AS/400

The death of SGI

10 years of UserFriendly.org

Happy Epoch Day!

BlackBerry then and now

I created the Internet

CrackBerry Book

War Games shell scripting fun

How to please your IT department

How to do an out-of-office auto reply

Bill Gates steps down today

IBM hard drive from 1981

The Nostradamus of UNIX

The UNIX way

Are you a Mac or a PC?

Linuxtopia

Netscape RIP 1994-2008

History of game consoles

The end of 2007

The Amazon Kindle: Friend or foe?

Anniversary of the World Wide Web

Thank you, Apple

Ontario Linux Fest

More about Open Source Software and Linux

The wicked witch is dead

Server closet Buddha shrine

Richard Stallman talk at UW

When Marketing chooses the cover

eMac family photo frame

Roughing it on vacation

iPhone first impressions

Microsoft Energize IT conference

Linux thin clients

Big fish

iThink therefore iMac

Summer is here. Finally.

Computer evolution

New Years security resolutions for 2006

Old Macs never die

1. Operating Systems

1. What do I do?

2. My published books

2. Retro Computers

3. Arcade Games

3. Personal Interests

4. Tech Flicks

5. Tech T-Shirt Slogans

6. Tech Humour and Puns

7. Three Unconventional Tips for Career Success

City Trails

Cyberpunk, Sci-Fi & General Fiction

Destination Trails

Non-Fiction & Biographies

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Trails in and around Algonquin Provincial Park

Video Game Books