No More James Bannan

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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 08:17

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Does anybody else read APC Magazine? Among their columnists they used to 
number one James Bannan, who was basically their resident Windows Fanboi. 
Only his column seems to have stopped as of the last few months.

One of the last items I remember him doing was on the wonders of PowerShell, 
and how Microsoft has finally seen fit to provide something resembling a 
command line for Windows, which lets you execute remote commands almost as 
easily as local ones. Well, when I say “almost as easily”, I mean you can do 
it. Sort of. You just have to figure out a completely different set of WMI 
commands to do it, which bear no resemblance to their local equivalents. And 
WMI is a lot more complicated and fiddly. But you can figure it out. 
Eventually.

On the bright side, they’ve been doing a lot of Linux coverage, which seems 
to have been gradually increasing over the last several years. Judging from 
the amount of it, 5-10% of their readership must be made up of Linux users.

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