An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API - Wine 5.1 - took place. Since the release of version 5.0, 32 bug reports have been closed and 361 changes have been made. Let us recall that starting with the 2.x branch, the Wine project switched to a new version numbering scheme: each stable release leads to an increase in the first digit in the version number (4.0.0, 5.0.0), and updates to […]
Andrey Konovalov from Google has published a method to remotely disable the Lockdown protection offered in the Linux kernel package supplied with Ubuntu (theoretically, the proposed methods should work with the kernel of Fedora and other distributions, but they have not been tested). Lockdown restricts root user access to the kernel and blocks UEFI Secure Boot bypass paths. For example, in lockdown mode access is limited […]
An animated wallpaper plugin for the KDE Plasma desktop has been released. The main feature of the plugin is support for launching a QOpenGL render directly on the desktop with the ability to interact using the mouse pointer. In addition, wallpapers are distributed in packages that contain the wallpaper itself and a configuration file. The plugin is recommended to be used together with OpenWallpaper Manager, a utility designed for working with […]
Media player MPV 0.32 has been released. Main changes: RAR5 support has been added to stream_libarchive. Initial support for bash completion. Added support for forcing GPU use for rendering to cocoa-cb. Added a pinch gesture to cocoa-cb to resize the window. Added support for minimizing/maximizing using osc window elements to w32_common. In wayland (in the GNOME environment), error messages have appeared when there are serious […]
PhotoFlare is a relatively new cross-platform image editor that offers a balance between heavy functionality and a user-friendly interface. It is suitable for a wide variety of tasks, and includes all the basic image editing functions, brushes, filters, color settings, etc. PhotoFlare is not a complete replacement for GIMP, Photoshop and similar “combines”, but it contains the most popular photo editing capabilities. […]
Dino is a modern open source desktop chat client based on XMPP/Jabber. Written in Vala/GTK+. Development of Dino began 3 years ago, and it brought together more than 30 people involved in the process of creating the client. Dino meets all security requirements and is compatible with all XMPP clients and servers. The main difference from most similar clients is its clean, simple and modern interface. […]
On November 30 - December 1, the OpenVINO hackathon was held in Nizhny Novgorod. Participants were asked to create a prototype of a product solution using the Intel OpenVINO toolkit. The organizers proposed a list of approximate topics that could be guided by when choosing a task, but the final decision remained with the teams. In addition, the use of models that are not included in the product was encouraged. In this article we will tell […]
We think that you know about the existence of a useful Intel product called Open Visual Inference & Neural Network Optimization (OpenVINO) toolkit - a set of libraries, optimization tools and information resources for software development using computer vision and Deep Learning. You also probably know that the best way to learn a tool is to try to do something with it [...]
From the moment the need arose to preserve (accurately record) data, people captured (or saved) on various media, with all kinds of tools, the information necessary for subsequent use. For thousands of years, he carved drawings on rocks and wrote them down on a piece of parchment, for the purpose of subsequent use in the future (to hit a bison only in the eye). In the last millennium, recording information in language [...]
The medical services sector is gradually but rather quickly adapting cloud computing technologies to its field. This happens because modern world medicine, adhering to the main goal - focusing on the patient - formulates a key requirement for improving the quality of medical services and improving clinical results (and, therefore, to improve the quality of life of a particular person and […]
Hey Habr. My name is Misha Butrimov, I would like to tell you a little about Cassandra. My story will be useful to those who have never encountered NoSQL databases - it has a lot of implementation features and pitfalls that you need to know about. And if you haven't seen anything other than Oracle or any other relational database, these things […]
In 2010 Wargaming had 50 servers and a simple network model: backend, frontend and firewall. The number of servers grew, the model became more complicated: staging, isolated VLANs with ACLs, then VPNs with VRFs, VLANs with ACLs on L2, VRFs with ACLs on L3. Head is spinning? Next will be more fun. When 16 servers began to work without tears […]
