Category Archives: Programming

The history of Docker containers (according to GoogleSearch)

Posted on September 25, 2025 by joe.mariadassou@norwestcomputing.com.au

Pre-Docker: The Seeds of Containerization 1979: chroot: The concept of process isolation began with the chroot system call in Unix V7, which could change the root directory of a process and its children, effectively isolating them from the rest of … Continue reading →

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Gemini: Restore computer to domain

Posted on July 16, 2025 by parama

I recently migrated my Windows Primary Domain Controller from one server to another.A workstation running Windows 10 could not recognize the shared drive. So I changed the DNS to the new server and flushed the DNS. When I rebooted the … Continue reading →

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Python3 Extension Modules with Boost

Posted on July 17, 2021 by joe.mariadassou@norwestcomputing.com.au

Boost (a collection of C++ libraries) provides excellent tools for writing Python extension modules in C++. However building these modules for Python3 has some issues. This blog suggests a workaround Continue reading →

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