Practical Technology

You may never have heard of The Clearing House (TCH), but you use its services every day. Its US payment network clears and settles more than $2 trillion of wire, Automated Clearing House (ACH), check image, and real-time payments every day. How does…Read More

Opinion It has become a running joke. “20xx will be the year of the Linux desktop.” The punchline is, of course, it will never happen. But the real jape is that there will soon be a year of the Linux desktop. It’s just not going to happen the way…Read More

Last June, in a UK pilot project, thousands of employees started working a four-day week for the same pay. With 3,300 workers at 70 companies, ranging from a car parts retailer to an animation studio, marketing agency, and fish-and-chips shop, it was…Read More

We use containers all the time, but we’re not ready to give up on Virtual Machines (VM) yet. Both have their uses. But, what if we could use the flexibility and ease of deployment of containers with the security and manageability of VMs? That’s the…Read More

A dozen years ago, people still had trouble getting their heads around the concept of a cloud. The joke that a cloud was just someone else’s computer was still popular and already fundamentally wrong. Even Larry Ellison, Oracle’s CEO, sneeringly…Read More

Linux runs the world, but it doesn’t run the traditional PC desktop — nor does it seem likely it ever will. But, that doesn’t mean the Linux desktop can’t play a major role on the office desktop. Canonical, Ubuntu Linux’s parent company, is trying a…Read More