Practical Technology

As Twitter continues to circle the drain, many people are already heading for the doors looking for a new online home. The good news is there are many other social networks. The bad news is none of them are complete Twitter replacements. So, first…Read More

With all of Twitter’s ever-growing technical problems, I’d missed an elephant in the room-sized disaster. Fortunately, a friend reminded me that many people use Twitter’s log-in as their login for other websites. Eep! You need to stop doing that…Read More

SEATTLE–Odds are today that the smartphone by your side is now running 5G. For years, 5G wasn’t able to deliver on its high-speed, low-latency promises. Things have changed. Today, 5G is finally delivering on its performance promises. A big reason…Read More

Once upon a time, 2002 to be exact, Gregory Kurtzer started a Linux distribution called CentOS, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It became really popular. Businesses that had Linux-savvy administrators used it to run their businesses.…Read More

If you haven’t switched over to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9 family, and your company lives and dies with RHEL, then chances are you’re running RHEL 8.x. If that’s you, pay attention because the latest version, RHEL 8.7, has just arrived at…Read More

Opinion GitHub Copilot, Microsoft’s AI-driven, pair-programming service, is already wildly popular. Microsoft broke out GitHub’s revenue and subscription numbers in its latest quarterly report for the first time. GitHub now has an annual recurring…Read More