Practical Technology

I have a friend, let’s call him Joe, who runs a small restaurant and is really upset about the recent stock market declines. I can’t blame him. We’re in a bear market now. It’s ugly. So, what does Joe want to do? He wants to take some of his assets…Read More

How deep do you want to observe your systems? Would you like to peer all the way into the depths of the Linux kernel? If that sounds good to you, you’ll be happy to know that Isovalent, a company that incorporates networking, security, Kubernetes,…Read More

Seriously, why are you still using Travis CI? Yeah, I know they were one of the first Continuous Integration (CI) programs. That was then. This is now. Since then first in 2015, then in 2019, then yet again in 2021, and now — yes, now — Travis CI…Read More

In my home office, I run a dozen desktops and half a dozen laptops. On them, I run multiple Linux distros; Windows 10 and 11; Chrome OS; and macOS. To keep them from overrunning my place, I use keyboard, video monitor, and mice (KVM) switches. You…Read More

Most of you know Ubuntu as a desktop operating system; others know it as an outstanding server Linux or as a tremendously popular cloud OS. But Canonical, Ubuntu’s parent company, is also a serious player in the Internet of Things (IoT) arena. And…Read More

Today, at long last, Microsoft is officially ending support for Internet Explorer. Goodbye and good riddance to the most annoying web browser of them all. Let’s review: Back in 1993 when I wrote the first story about this newfangled thing called the…Read More