Despite NVIDIA's announcement of its decision not to cancel its main annual event, the GTC (GPU Technology Conference), due to the coronavirus outbreak, they decided to postpone a similar event from the world of computer games to a later date. The event, which has been running since 1988, was scheduled to take place March 16-20 in San Francisco. “After close consultation with our […]
The story of Xerox's intentions to take over HP Inc. has been going on a little longer than since November last year, when the first proposal was announced publicly. Published by HP Inc. The document explains that both Carl Icahn and Xerox management have been discussing possible alliance options in private negotiations with the company's management since August. White paper sent by HP Inc. to the Commission on […]
The inevitability of the announcement of new NVIDIA graphics solutions is confirmed by many analysts, but there is still little real evidence. As the latter, we can consider the results of testing the mysterious products of this brand in Geekbench, which allow us to speak of superiority over the Tesla V100 (Volta). The results of testing two different NVIDIA products in Geekbench 5.0.2, which were obtained back in October and November last year, […]
This article will look at the operating principle of Kata Containers, as well as a practical part with connecting them to Docker. Common problems with Docker and solutions to them have already been written about; today I will briefly describe the implementation from Kata Containers. Kata Containers is a secure runtime environment for containers based on lightweight virtual machines. Working with them […]
In this post we will look at the rpm artifact storage using a simple script with inotify + createrepo. Uploading of artifacts is carried out via webdav using apache httpd. Why apache httpd will be written towards the end of the post. So, the solution must meet the following requirements for organizing only an RPM repository: Free Availability of the package in the repository a few seconds after uploading to the repository […]
Sooner or later, many people are faced with the need to massively correct something in table records. I have already told you how to do it better, and how best not to do it. Today I’ll talk about the second aspect of the mass update - the firing of triggers. For example, on a table in which you need to correct something, there is an evil ON UPDATE trigger that transfers all changes to […]
Valve published another report on sales on Steam last week. There were significant changes in the ranking from February 23 to 29 compared to the previous list. In first place was the ARK: Genesis Season Pass for ARK: Survival Evolved, and the game itself climbed to fifth place. “Silver” was won by NieR: Automata, which was sold at a discount […]
A few months ago, the number of extensions for the new Microsoft Edge was 162. Now the number is approximately 1200. And although this is small compared to similar figures for Chrome and Firefox, the fact itself is respectable. However, the blue browser also supports working with Chrome extensions, so there shouldn’t be any special problems. Note that when starting [...]
THQ Nordic brought, among other things, a remake of Destroy All Humans to the American festival PAX East 2020! and a re-release of SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, gameplay videos of which recently appeared on the Internet. Gematsu employees had the opportunity to personally try out the updated versions of both projects and record relatively long videos demonstrating the gameplay. A video dedicated to Destroy All Humans!, [...]
Researcher Amol Baikar, who works in the field of information security, has published data on a ten-year-old vulnerability in the OAuth authorization protocol used by the social network Facebook. Exploitation of this vulnerability made it possible to hack Facebook accounts. The mentioned problem concerns the “Login with Facebook” function, which allows you to log in to different web sites using your Facebook account. For […]
The release of the Porteus Kiosk 5.0.0 distribution kit, based on Gentoo and intended for equipping autonomously operating Internet kiosks, demonstration stands and self-service terminals, has been prepared. The boot image of the distribution takes 104 MB. The basic build includes only the minimum set of components required to run a web browser (Firefox and Chrome are supported), which is limited in its capabilities to prevent unwanted activity on the system (for example, […]
New editions of the Linux From Scratch 9.1 (LFS) and Beyond Linux From Scratch 9.1 (BLFS) manuals, as well as the LFS and BLFS editions with the systemd system manager, have been introduced. Linux From Scratch provides instructions for building a basic Linux system from scratch using only the source code for the required software. Beyond Linux From Scratch augments LFS instructions with assembly information […]
