Practical Technology

If you did away with Linux, the cloud, containers, or Kubernetes, you wouldn’t recognize today’s technology world. Linux is the operating system foundation for all of it; the cloud gives us access to all its applications and resources; containers are…Read More

We all know that some perfectly good Windows 10 PCs can’t be upgraded to Windows 11. But did you know that Canalys Insights estimated there are 240 million Windows 10 PCs doomed to the trash heap because they can’t be upgraded to Windows 11 after…Read More

I’ve been playing with artificial intelligence (AI) since Lisp was the state-of-the-art (that is to say, a while). Lately, like everyone else, I’ve been looking at AI a lot more closely. While it’s nifty, I’m not that impressed — but not because…Read More

Many people were surprised to hear recently that ICQ — the once-popular instant messaging (IM) client — will shut down on June 26. I suspect more people were surprised to hear that ICQ (supposedly short for “I Seek You”) was still around. Back in…Read More

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