General Writings

With working in the technology world for the better part of 40 years, writing is a critical part of my day to day work, this page is the index of the publicly available documents.
As for whats in these documents, it's mainly technology, but with other things being added from time to time.

Over the years, one of the most common questions I am asked, is how to deal with the mountain of different compressed file formats exist these days. This document was written to cover this subject, and while I am living in the UNIX/LINUX world, it may even be useful for windows users. There are many examples, and where available links to the tools to managed these formats. [read]