Practical Technology

This new vulnerability, Terrapin, breaks the integrity of SSH’s secure channel. Yes, that’s just as bad as it sounds. Anyone who does anything on the cloud or programming uses Secure Shell (SSH). So any vulnerability is bad news. Guess what? I’ve got…Read More

A few years back, things were relatively simple regarding Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). If you needed support, you’d get a contract with Red Hat. If you didn’t, you’d run the community RHEL distro, Community Enterprise Operating system (CentOS).…Read More

Opinion What do Amazon, Sony, and Broadcom all have in common? Give up? Each, in their own way, has made it clear that when you buy something from them, you don’t actually own it. Going back to 2009, Amazon dropped 1984 and Animal Farm from its…Read More

If things had gone as planned, Apple Mac Linux fans would have been running Fedora Linux on their M-chip-powered Macs this summer. Oh well, better late than never! As of December 19, Fedora Asahi Remix 39 has been released. This makes Fedora Asahi…Read More

Long before Facebook existed, or even before the Internet, there was Usenet. Usenet was the first social network. Now, with Google Groups abandoning Usenet, this oldest of all social networks is doomed to disappear. Google declared: Starting on…Read More

I have AT&T Gigabit Fiber Internet in my house. But there are still times when I’m watching a movie and the video starts to stutter and stop. What’s going on? It’s not that AT&T is failing to deliver the speed. No, it’s because the latency — the…Read More