Hello, Habr! Today we continue our series of articles, which will include 5 collections of free training courses from Microsoft. In the second part, we have the coolest courses for IT Administrators, which are most popular with colleagues. By the way! All courses are free (you can even try paid products for free); 5/5 in Russian; You can start training instantly; Upon completion you […]
The Mayan writing was the only complete writing system in America, but thanks to the efforts of the brave Spanish conquistadors, it was completely forgotten by the XNUMXth century. However, thousands of these symbols were preserved on carved stones, frescoes and ceramics, and in the XNUMXth century, an ordinary Soviet graduate student came up with an idea that made it possible to decipher them. And this article will show how this […]
Baruch Sadogursky is a Developer Advocate at JFrog, co-author of the book "Liquid Software", a well-known IT speaker. In an interview, Baruch told how he prepares for reports, how foreign conferences differ from Russian ones, why participants go to them and why they should speak in a frog costume. Let's start with the simplest. What do you think, why speak at conferences at all? In fact, […]
OpenVSP is a free parametric CAD system for the design and analysis of aircraft geometry (CFD, FEM). The program is developed by NASA Langley Research Center staff and is included in the NASA Software Catalog. On September 17-19, 2019, “OpenVSP Workshop 2019” was held, where developments and development plans for the 3.19.x branch were presented. On November 9, OpenVSP 3.19.0 was released, and a little later […]
The title of the article sounds like epic fail, but in reality everything is not so simple. And in general, this story ended very positively, although not in Google. But this is a topic for another article. In this same article I will talk about three things: how my preparation process went, how […]
The release of the ALSA 1.2.1 audio subsystem has been announced. This is the first release of the 1.2.x branch (the 1.1 branch was formed in 2015). The new version affects the update of libraries, utilities and plugins that work at the user level. Drivers are developed in sync with the Linux kernel. One of the significant changes is the removal of topology-related functions to a separate libatopology library (the method of loading handlers from […]
Disclaimer: I started writing this article quite a long time ago and only finished it now because I didn’t have time. During this time, 2 more similar articles were published: this one and this one. Some of the information in the article repeats information from these two articles. However, since I view everything described in the article through the prism of my own experience, I […]
Facebook has published the results of experiments with a new congestion control algorithm, COPA, optimized for transmitting video content. The algorithm was proposed by researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The COPA prototype proposed for testing is written in C++, open under the MIT license and included in mvfst, an implementation of the QUIC protocol being developed at Facebook. The COPA algorithm is focused on solving problems arising […]
The release of the CoreBoot 4.11 project has been published, within the framework of which a free alternative to proprietary firmware and BIOS is being developed. 130 developers took part in the creation of the new version, who prepared 1630 changes. Main innovations: Added support for 25 motherboards: AMD PADMELON; ASUS P5QL-EM; QEMU-AARCH64 (emulation); Google AKEMI, ARCADA CML, DAMU, DOOD, DRALLION, DRATINI, JACUZZI, JUNIPER, KAKADU, KAPPA, PUFF, SARIEN CML, […]
The Open Invention Network (OIN), an organization dedicated to protecting the Linux ecosystem from patent claims, announced the formation of a team with IBM, the Linux Foundation and Microsoft to protect open source software from attacks by patent trolls who have no assets and live only by suing dubious patents. The created group will provide support to the Unified Patents organization in the field of fact-finding […]
The developers of the Monero cryptocurrency, which is positioned as providing complete anonymity and protection from payment tracking, warned users about the compromise of the project’s official website (GetMonero.com). As a result of the hack on November 18, from 5:30 to 21:30 (MSK), executable files of the console edition of the Monero wallet for Linux, macOS and Windows, replaced by attackers, were distributed in the download section. The executable files contained a malicious […]
Ubisoft has announced an in-game Money Heist event for Rainbow Six Siege. It is dedicated to the series of the same name, which is shown in the Netflix online cinema. According to the description, the criminals took a hostage during a bank robbery. Players will fight for it among themselves. Matches will be played according to the standard rules of the “Hostage” mode. In honor of the event, the developers will add new cosmetic items to the game for Hibana operatives […]
