By now most VMware customers are aware of the Broadcom acquisition of the popular computer virtualization software. The purchase has created a lot of confusion and uncertainty in an area of IT often counted upon for predictability, and stability. IT...

In part I and part II of this series we looked at setting up local LLMs running on Apple MacOS and Microsoft Windows respectively. This post is going to dig into using Linux to run an LLM. In several respects Linux is different from both MacOS and...

In part one of this series, we looked at running the Meta LLAMA 2 AI large language model (LLM) on Apple Silicon base computers directly. This allows a ChatGPT like AI assistant to run without an Internet connection, but much more importantly to...

Running large language models on your local computer can be a safe and cost-effective way to use the latest artificial intelligence tools. This blog post will outline the steps needed for local AI use on Apple Macs with Apple Silicon CPUs.

As time progresses Microsoft cloud first focus becomes clearer. The pace of Microsoft Exchange releases continues to decrease. Maintenance of the system becomes more reactive. The supporting infrastructure also becomes an ever-growing hassle.