Tec(h)tonic

Insights into building a solid I.T. foundation in the mid-size business world.

Author: Christopher Scott

  • Microsoft does Linux (sort of)

    Historically very anti-Linux (to the point of litigation), Microsoft has begun to embrace the open source OS, in its own way, out of pure necessity – the cloud computing boom has completely altered the requirements for back-end servers and software, requirements that typical MS Windows products aren’t built to support. Personally, though I realize this is…

  • Speeding up Mac OS X 10.x

    The older I get, the more OS-agnostic I get – as my good friend Jorge Abellas-Martin is fond of saying: “Dogs with different fleas.” Having said that, the design snob in me has always preferred Macs (it probably doesn’t help that I was indoctrinated with the Apple ][ Plus as a wee lad). At this…

  • Tonight’s augmented & virtual reality tech demo

    One of Boston’s many great, local interest groups – Boston Virtual Reality – held a tech demo meetup this evening featuring two hardware developers in the burgeoning fields of augmented & virtual reality – Meta and Leap Motion. Before I tell you more, a quick sidenote to define these fields: virtual reality (VR) has, of course, been around in various incarnations for…