Practical Technology

Opinion Oracle is dropping Terraform for OpenTofu, and IBM’s CEO is talking up open source. What does all this mean for both programs? Here’s what I see happening. The Terraform tale has been… interesting. And, with Oracle quietly dumping Terraform…Read More

Contrary to what you might think, the first PC wasn’t the IBM PC, nor was it the Altair 8800, nor, for those of you of a legal turn of mind, 1971’s Kenbak-1. No, you could argue it was C. Gordon Bell and Digital Equipment Computer (DEC)‘s PDP-8 from…Read More

A few years ago, I saw streaming services already following in cable TV’s footprints with higher rates and similar packages. Now, old-school cable company Comcast is rolling out Xfinity StreamSaver, a package of Netflix Standard with ads, Peacock…Read More

It’s an odd time in the technology job market these days. On the one hand, the overall job market is doing great — an unemployment rate of 3.9%. On the other hand, big tech companies are still cutting people. Regardless, employers are still looking…Read More

If you were a teenager in the year 2000, odds are you were using Winamp to listen to the MP3 music tracks you found on Napster or had ripped from your CDs. Today, you most likely listen to your tunes on Spotify or Apple Music. But Winamp wants to…Read More

In a new white paper, Vendor Kernels, Bugs and Stability, the infrastructure software and Rocky Linux company CIQ presents a compelling argument that Linux vendor kernels are plagued with security vulnerabilities due to the flawed engineering…Read More