Practical Technology

Canonical picks open-source leader for COO

sjvn — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:32:56 +0000

When Canonical’s, the company behind Ubuntu, CEO Mark Shuttleworth stepped down and former COO (chief operating officer) Jane Silber moved up, there was concern that the popular Linux company might suffer from a lack of corporate leadership. Worry no more. Open source industry veteran and leader Matt Asay has joined Canonical as its new COO.

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Can you trust Chinese computer equipment?

sjvn — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 14:49:32 +0000

As you surely know, Google has accused China of hacking into its systems and is considering pulling out of China altogether. The U.S. government is taking this seriously, and Google has partnered with the NSA (National Security Agency) to get to the bottom of this. What you may not know is that the United Kingdom’s [...]

There’s No Reason to Wait for Windows 7 SP1

sjvn — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:45:18 +0000

Historically, adopting the first version of any major Microsoft software release has been, well, a mistake. Sometimes, as with Windows NT, it took several iterations — until NT4 SP3 — before the operating system really worked well. And, with the far more recent Windows Vista fiasco in mind, no one could blame you for not [...]