Before we even get started with this topic, let me acknowledge all of you readers out there who are wondering why I didn’t call this week’s column “Shoving Technology Backwards”. Granted, few of us ...

I booted UNIX V4 (first C rewrite) in a PDP‑11 emulator. It feels tactile—no backspace, staggered print, slower typing, and ...

In this first installment of a two-part series, Emmett explains how this free tool is essential for any integrator's toolbox. If there is one tool that belongs in every integrator's toolkit, it is ...

When Apple announced the release of Mac OS X, many Mac users were stunned: here was a new operating system based on the venerable Unix, which, they feared, would call into question the Mac’s legendary ...

Ssh provides a method of connecting to Unix systems which is superior to that provided by rsh and rlogin if only because ssh connections are protected by the underlying encryption that ssh employs.

In the first two articles of this series [see ``Real Time and Linux'' in the January/February 2002 issue and ``Real Time and Linux, Part 2: the Preemptible Kernel'' in the March/April 2002 issue of ...

There is a dream that almost everyone involved in integration has. This dream goes by a handful of names -- sometimes called single sign-on, password synchronization and so on -- but it's essentially ...