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Alan has 20 years of IT experience, mostly in the Government and Financial sectors. He started as a Value Added Reseller before moving into Systems Engineering. Alan's background is in high-availability clustered apps. He wrote the 'Users and Groups' and 'Apache and the Web Stack' chapters in the Oracle Press/McGraw Hill 'Oracle Solaris 11 System Administration' book. He earned his Master of Science in Information Systems from George Mason University. Alan is a long-time proponent of Open Source Software.
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I have a few issues still around, oldest is December 1998. I've always enjoyed LJ and will really miss reading it.
Great article! I've had many machines that were 10+ years old and Linux always brings them back to life. Goes for old laptops too!