Practical Technology

In today’s data center, millions of instructions per second (MIPS) and gigabyte per second (GBPS) throughput are well and good, but being green (having a low power consumption) is becoming just as important. That’s why Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, is betting that in the long run, ARM processors will play an important role [...]

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It’s a rough job market out there. The U.S. unemployment rate was 9.4% in December 2010. That’s better than it has been, but it’s still not great. And while some groups, like the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), expect things to get better – “Overall, employers expect to hire 13.5% more new graduates [...]

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These are rotten times for job hunters, but if you know Linux, you’ve got a better shot at getting a job. And, now the Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization that backs Linux’s growth is doing its part to help by starting a new Web site: the Linux Jobs Board. According to the Linux Foundation, “the [...]

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Need another arrow in your Linux job-hunting quiver? Then you might want to check out the LPI (Linux Professional Institute), the Linux certification organization has launched its new “Security” exam elective for its top-level LPIC-3 certification program. The LPI has been working on this security certification option since March 2008. To obtain this certification, roughly [...]

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I grew up dirt-poor in the middle of West Virginia on my grandparents’ stories of the Great Depression. We’re not even close to being that bad yet. But, when it’s you without a job, when you’re not able to draw a paycheck, that’s cold comfort. One ray of light in this misery economy though is [...]

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