Okay, so this is maybe a little unusual, but today’s “*nix Tip of the Day” isn’t about Unix/Linux/etc. at all. Instead, it is about their antiquated archenemy: VMS. First, a little bit of history: <History> Way back in 1970, the PDP-11 was hot stuff. Ken Thompson, Dennis Richie, Brian Kernighan, and others at Bell Labs [...]
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In Claremont, Again: Musings
Today marks my first week back in sunny California. Actually, scratch the “sunny” part — it’s rained here almost every day since I arrived. It’s still nice to be somewhere where the average daily temperature has more than one digit, though. Class is exactly as I remembered it. Hours drag by, but days seem to [...]
