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The New Guy Rant

Upper management not encouraging the children to play together leaves the new mainframe guy worrying about his future.

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11:23 AM on Fri Mar 26 2010
By Pauly
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Is it just me?

Is it just me or is there hope in the IT air?

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8:56 AM on Tue Aug 25 2009
By JES3
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The Angry Mainframer Blog

Perhaps it goes with age, perhaps just because I am jaded by too many predictions of the death of the mainframe. I even believed them myself for a while - trying out UNIX performance. But I'm back. And so should we all. We aren't T. rex. Instead, we are velociraptors - hungry, smart, fast and perfectly…... Full Story

11:32 AM on Wed Aug 19 2009
By JES3
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T-Plexx blog 0002: Forbidden Words

Imagine my surprise. One of the most straight-laced people I knew, a computing security person where I worked at the time, handed me an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper covered in some of the worst words I'd ever seen, along with some other odd words such as the names of the local sports teams. What was I to…... Full Story

4:46 PM on Fri Dec 19 2008
By T-Plexx
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T-Plexx blog 0001: Hello World

Hello world. Remember those words? If you've ever programmed a computer, that's probably what your first program printed out on the screen.

Well, this is my first blog at TRexxers.com, so I thought I'd start from the very beginning.

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11:30 AM on Fri Dec 19 2008
By T-Plexx
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What’s Brewing?

The end of the world can be pretty depressing stuff. It leaves some of us aching for a place to drown our sorrows. Unfortunately, with the collapse of breweries that managed their inventory and shipping on Windows systems, the human race may be forced to make alcoholic ends meet themselves.... Full Story

3:04 PM on Wed Dec 3 2008
By Corinne Casagrande
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