May 29, 2024
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Comments Off on RIP, ICQ: Why all instant messaging disappears (in the end)
Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ — the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client — will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly short for “I Seek You”) was … Continue reading
May 24, 2024
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Comments Off on Where do Terraform and OpenTofu go from here?
Opinion Oracle is dropping Terraform for OpenTofu, and IBM’s CEO is talking up open source. What does all this mean for both programs? Here’s what I see happening. The Terraform tale has been… interesting. And, with Oracle quietly dumping Terraform…Read … Continue reading
May 23, 2024
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Comments Off on C. Gordon Bell, Father of the PDP-8 and VAX, Has Died.
Contrary to what you might think, the first PC wasn’t the IBM PC, nor was it the Altair 8800, nor, for those of you of a legal turn of mind, 1971’s Kenbak-1. No, you could argue it was C. Gordon … Continue reading
May 22, 2024
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Comments Off on Cable déjà vu? Looks who’s bundling streaming services (and what it’s going to cost you)
A few years ago, I saw streaming services already following in cable TV’s footprints with higher rates and similar packages. Now, old-school cable company Comcast is rolling out Xfinity StreamSaver, a package of Netflix Standard with ads, Peacock…Read More
May 21, 2024
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Comments Off on More than money, open-source pros want these 2 things from their next jobs
It’s an odd time in the technology job market these days. On the one hand, the overall job market is doing great — an unemployment rate of 3.9%. On the other hand, big tech companies are still cutting people. Regardless, … Continue reading
May 17, 2024
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Comments Off on Winamp is not going open source. Here’s what it is doing – and why
If you were a teenager in the year 2000, odds are you were using Winamp to listen to the MP3 music tracks you found on Napster or had ripped from your CDs. Today, you most likely listen to your tunes … Continue reading