• 27 Apr 2011

    Novell, Utah and the Libertarian Party

    Some new news out today was about Novell completing its sale to Attachmate. Wow, the end of an era...Novell really does have a special place in my heart - NetWare was the first network operating system I learned, way back in the version 2.15c days. Anyone remember those? Then I moved on to v2.2, 3.12, 4.0 and then 4.1. I obtained my first IT certification - the CNE - that ...

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  • 11 Oct 2007

    The industry’s first patch management program?

    Apparently I was ahead of my time. Way back in 1996 I wrote and sold a program called LANUP through a consulting company a buddy of mine and I ran on the side. LANUP - short for local area network update - was designed for NetWare operating systems. I wrote it out of desperation because I was administering so many NetWare servers at the time - I needed some automation. ...

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