Practical Technology

It took him a while, but Elon Musk, owner and CEO of Twitter, finally kept his promise to open source some of Twitter’s code. This came even though he’d fired Twitter’s open source staff. Color me surprised. Without his developers, I didn’t think…Read More

We’re not spending as much time watching TV, but at an average of three hours a day, we’re still watching a lot. You might think that would be good news for the cable companies. Nope. More people than ever are dumping cable and satellite TV for…Read More

Features: 3 package options | Sports channels | AirTV 2 and AirTV Mini streaming devices Sling TV has an à la carte approach to channels that separates it from its competitors and makes it our top overall pick. While the others tend to offer only one…Read More

It used to be so easy. Never, ever open a DOC of an XLS file from someone you don’t know. Ah well, those simple, early days of phishing are long gone. Mind you, people still fall for those attacks, but now phishing attacks have a new, novel way of…Read More

Like any old, grizzled Unix/Linux administrator, I used to do everything with shell scripts. But, when you’re dealing with multiple servers or workstations, you need more. That’s where programs such as Red Hat Satellite and Canonical Landscape come…Read More

A long time ago, in an IT company far, far away, I would carry in a Compaq Portable so I could get my work done. Today, while the PC may have changed, not much else has when it comes to IT and the cloud — and especially shadow IT. Today, as Dr.…Read More