There has been a push or more accurately a desperation grab by technical recruiters to use Indians for the vetting process. This is always an unmitigated disaster. The ones that…
Experience
What life gives you when it doesn’t give you want you want.
HP Franken-Z’s
When I first got my HP Z series computer in 2023 I praised it. A bit of new toy syndrome to be sure. As long as I just wrote books…
LF CR LFCR and CRLF Because it Keeps Coming Up
One would think the whole LFCR discussion would have been documented and saved throughout the decades. One should really be warned about thinking. Despite what you will read in Google’s…
The Last IBM Engineer
I get the Route Fifty morning email because that’s what is left of Government Computing News magazine. Don’t worry, you can’t find any reference to Government Computing magazine via Google….
Why I Quit Running BOINC
This weekend I switched all of my BOINC machines to Folding@Home. Anyone who has read this blog for any length of time knows that I’ve been a big supporter of…