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Right now I am attending the Collaboration Best Practices conference at IBM Somers. One of the key messages arising from the presentations I’ve heard thus far has to do with the central importance of collaboration with regard to successful teams, projects, etc. Slowly but surely, it is becoming apparent that collaboration matters, a lot....

Back in 1986, I purchased what at that time was an absolutely wonderful, modern, and advanced piece of computer hardware: a Tandy TRS-80 Model 102. The thing was nothing more than a small box with a wonderful, full-size keyboard and a small LCD screen. It did a few things very well, one of which...

Patrick Volkerding has released Slackware 10.2, and I have decided to take this occasion to formally wipe my disk clean of Redhat 9 and go back to using Slackware. Redhat no longer supports their non-enterprise package, and for the past months I’ve just been patching and doing all the upkeep to my system manually....