Last week the computing world celebrated an important anniversary: the UNIX operating system turned 50 years old. What was originally developed in 1969 as a lighter weight timesharing system for a … ...

What most of us want are Unix systems that will both be reliable and available. The CIA (confidentiality, integrity, and availability) model is a good reminder that what we're protecting is not ...

Forty years ago this summer, a programmer sat down and knocked out in one month what would become one of the most important pieces of software ever created.

Have you heard of Linux? It’s a version of Unix developed by a Finn, Linus Torvalds. But what is Unix? It’s a computer operating system developed by Bell Labs in the 1960s. What was Bell Labs ...

For many people who use the web frequently, the URL is still something of a mystery. What each portion of this odd-looking address actually means and how it relates to the page that eventually ...