The Chinese electronics manufacturer UMIDIGI introduced the UMIDIGI A5 Pro smartphone during the annual brand sale — the UMIDIGI Fan Festival, held on the AliExpress platform. During the sale, which will last only 24 hours, the new model can be purchased at a significant discount for $89.37 (with a $6 coupon). The UMIDIGI A5 Pro features a 6.3-inch display made of […]
A year after the release of Perl 5.28.0, Perl 5.30.0 has been released. Important changes include: support for Unicode versions 11, 12, and the draft version 12.1 added; the upper limit 'n' specified in the regular expression quantifier in the form '{m, n}' has been doubled to 65534; metacharacters in Unicode property value specifications are now partially supported; support for qr’N{name}’ has been added; Perl can now be compiled to […]
I am publishing the original article on Habr, the translation of which is posted in the corporate blog. The need to do something asynchronously, without waiting for immediate results, or to divide large work among several units executing it existed even before computers. With their advent, this need became very evident. Now, in 2019, as I type this article on a laptop with an 8-core processor […]
If you manage a virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere (or any other technology stack), you have probably often heard complaints from users like: "The virtual machine is running slowly!" In this series of articles, I will analyze performance metrics and explain what is causing the slowdowns and how to prevent them. I will examine the following aspects of virtual machine performance: CPU, RAM, DISK, [...].
Mushkin has released SSDs from the Helix-L series, the first information about which appeared at the January CES 2019 electronics show. The products are made in the M.2 2280 format (22 × 80 mm). This allows them to be used in desktop and portable computers, including ultrabooks. The drives are PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe 1.3 solutions, utilizing 3D TLC flash memory chips [...].
On May 22, the new version of the openSUSE Leap 15.1 distribution was released. This version features a completely updated graphics stack. Although this release uses the 4.12 kernel, it has backported support for graphics hardware relevant to the 4.19 kernel (including improved support for the AMD Vega chipset). Starting with Leap 15.1, Network Manager will be used […]
On May 16, after four years of development, a new stable version of OpenSCAD – 2019.05 was released. OpenSCAD is a non-interactive 3D CAD program, somewhat like a 3D compiler that generates a model based on a script written in a special programming language. OpenSCAD is well-suited for 3D printing and for automatically generating a large number of similar models based on a given set of parameters. Full usage requires […]
It's an important day for Red Hat, the Russian open source community, and all involved – Jim Whitehurst's book "Open Organization: The Passion that Yields Results" has been released in Russian. It vividly and thoroughly describes how we at Red Hat pave the way for the best ideas and the most talented people, as well as how to avoid getting lost in chaos and unite [...].
A new series of vulnerabilities has been found in Windows that allows access to the system. A user under the pseudonym SandBoxEscaper presented exploits for three vulnerabilities at once. The first allows a user to elevate privileges in the system using the task scheduler. An authorized user has the opportunity to elevate their rights to system level. The second vulnerability affects the Windows error reporting service. This allows attackers to exploit it [...].
Codemasters has announced the development of a sequel to one of its most popular series—GRID. The new racing simulator will be released on September 13, 2019, for PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC. Although this will be the fourth installment in the series, the developers chose not to include a number in the title, simply naming the simulator GRID. "Get ready for intense racing competitions on city streets [...].
The developers of the Python project have published a proposal (PEP 594) for a significant cleanup of the standard library. The removal from the Python standard library includes not only explicitly outdated and specialized features, but also components that have architectural issues and cannot be unified across all platforms. For example, it is proposed to exclude modules like crypt from the standard library due to their unavailability on Windows […]
In the comments to a recent article, you asked many questions about the new version of our Windows Terminal. Today we will try to answer some of them. Below are some of the most frequently asked questions we've heard (and still hear), along with official answers: including about the replacement of PowerShell and how to get started […]