I repent. I'm a little late. Just about 10 minutes. And the first phrase I heard from Sergei Bondarev: “... don’t forget, this is a secret.” And Sergei mysteriously flashed his glasses. I shuddered and looked around. I had the feeling that I had missed the floor and ended up on a counterintelligence forum. Then I looked into the work chat and saw: […]
Attention! This article is not engineering and is intended for readers who are looking for advanced courses in iOS development. Most likely, if you are not interested in learning, this material will not be of interest to you. It's no secret that there are many organizations that teach programming. These are mainly mainstream courses with basic knowledge that guarantee mastery of a new profession […]
Moving to Europe is like the adventure Jim Hawkins went on in the book Treasure Island. Jim gained tremendous experience, many impressions, but everything did not happen exactly as he had originally imagined. Europe is good, but situations may arise when expectations differ from reality. The good news is that you can prepare for this in advance. […]
Learn everything about the IT department at Mars and get an internship in one evening? It's possible! On November 28th we will be hosting a Deep Dive to IT at Mars, an event for 4th year undergraduate students and above who are ready to start their careers in IT. Register → On November 28, you will learn more about the scale of IT at Mars, and most importantly, you will be able to […]
Issue 8 of the magazine “Radio Amateur” for 1924 was dedicated to Losev’s “kristadin”. The word "cristadine" was made up of the words "crystal" and "heterodyne", and the "crystadine effect" was that when a negative bias was applied to a zincite (ZnO) crystal, the crystal began to generate undamped oscillations. The effect had no theoretical basis. Losev himself believed that the effect was due to the presence of a microscopic “voltaic arc” […]
The release of Tcl/Tk 8.6.10, a dynamic programming language distributed together with a cross-platform library of basic graphical interface elements, has been presented. Although Tcl is primarily used for creating user interfaces and as an embedded language, Tcl is also suitable for other tasks such as web development, network application creation, system administration, and testing. In the new version: In Tk the implementation […]
Tablet from Kish (circa 3500 BC) That reading is useful is not in doubt. But the answers to the questions “What exactly is reading fiction useful for?” and “Which books are preferable to read?” vary depending on sources. The text below is my version of the answer to these questions. Let me start with the obvious point that it is not [...]
The first release of the graphics editor Glimpse has been published, a fork from the GIMP project after 13 years of trying to convince the developers to change the name. Builds are prepared for Windows and Linux (Flatpak, Snap). 7 developers, 2 documentation authors and one designer took part in the development of Glimpse. Over the course of five months, about $500 dollars in donations were received for the development of the fork, of which $50 […]
After five months of development, the release of the user environment Cinnamon 4.4 was formed, within which the community of developers of the Linux Mint distribution is developing a fork of the GNOME Shell shell, the Nautilus file manager and the Mutter window manager, aimed at providing an environment in the classic style of GNOME 2 with support for successful interaction elements from the GNOME Shell . Cinnamon is based on GNOME components, but these components […]
A new branch of the open platform webOS Open Source Edition 2, aimed at equipping smart devices, has been presented. The platform is developed in a public repository under the Apache 2.0 license, and development is community-led, adhering to a collaborative development management model. Raspberry Pi 4 boards are considered as the reference hardware platform. The webOS platform was purchased by LG from Hewlett-Packard in 2013 and […]
The project, which develops the free automated PCB design system KiCad, has come under the auspices of the Linux Foundation. The developers expect that development under the auspices of the Linux Foundation will attract additional resources for the development of the project and will provide the opportunity to develop new services not directly related to development. The Linux Foundation, as a neutral platform for interaction with manufacturers, will also allow […]
Experts from the information security company Trustwave reported the discovery of a large-scale campaign of spam messages that are used to download ransomware victims onto their PCs under the guise of updates for the Windows operating system. Microsoft never sends emails asking you to update Windows. It's clear that the new malware campaign is targeting people who don't […]
