February 26, 2014
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Back in 2011, the popular Ubuntu Linux distribution made a major and controversial user-interface (UI) change. It moved from GNOME 3.x to its own GNOME-based UI design: Unity. One of its bigger design changes was to force all in-focus applications to use … Continue reading
February 26, 2014
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My apologies for Practical-Tech going dark for so long. I’ve been busy with other projects. I’ll be updating the site shortly with my newest stories and back-filling my older, missing tales. Thanks for your patience. Steven
February 25, 2014
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One Operating System to rule them all;One Operating System to find them;One Operating System to bring them all and in Android bind them.* Or, some people would add, “in Google bind them.” But that’s not true: Android is much too … Continue reading
February 24, 2014
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More and more for Windows users, there’s no OS like an old OS XP fans might finally have to get over it. Their favorite Windows operating system is on its deathbed. Oh, die-hards can keep running XP, but that’s just … Continue reading
February 24, 2014
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IBM believes it’s making a safe bet by opening its middleware stack to its SoftLayer Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) cloud. They’d better be. Big Blue’s putting a billion dollars on the table. This combination, called BlueMix, also makes use of Cloud Foundry, an … Continue reading
February 19, 2014
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If you follow networking vendors, you know they get along with one another about as well as a dog whose tail has just been pulled and a cat who’s had a bucket of water dumped on him. That’s why it … Continue reading