Practical Technology

Comment Recently, The Register’s Liam Proven wrote tongue in cheek about the most annoying desktop Linux distros. He inspired me to do another take. Proven pointed out that Distrowatch currently lists 270 – count ’em – Linux distros. Of course, no…Read More

Oh, come on, Elon! Get with the 21st century already. In a recent infamous leaked memo, Elon Musk told his Tesla staff, “Anyone who wishes to do remote work must be in the office for a minimum (and I mean *minimum*) of 40 hours per week or depart…Read More

At Kubecon Europe 2022, some of cloud native computing’s best and brightest security minds talked about where we’re at now and where we’re going. The really short version is, “We’ll be shifting security left into DevSecOps as fast as we can.” But all…Read More

Seven years ago, Microsoft surprised the world — and its hardware partners — by releasing its first laptop: The Surface Book. It was a flop. But, unlike some Microsoft hardware experiments I could mention — the Surface tablet, Surface RT, and the…Read More

Some companies want people back at their desks. Others are okay with them working from their kitchen tables. How 2022! But why not let them work from wherever they’ve pulled their RV over by the side of the road with SpaceX Starlink? I have friends…Read More

VALENCIA, Spain — It was a busy Kubecon Europe for improving software supply chain security. That’s a darn good thing because Gartner predicts that by 2025, 45% of organizations worldwide will have experienced attacks on their software supply chains,…Read More