The Buka company and the Russian division of Nintendo announced a partnership in the field of digital distribution. Games for Nintendo Switch and Nintendo 3DS can now be purchased not only in Nintendo eShop, but also in the Buki online store. The companies have been partners since 2017. Previously, Buka sold through shop.buka.ru only games for Nintendo platforms in physical form, on cartridges. […]
So you collect metrics. As we are. We also collect metrics. Of course, necessary for business. Today we will talk about the very first link of our monitoring system - the statsd-compatible bioyino aggregation server, why we wrote it and why we abandoned brubeck. From our previous articles (1, 2) you can find out that until some time we collected tags […]
The current quarterly AMD conference was characterized by the desire of the event guests to ask all the burning questions that had haunted them over the previous three months. The head of the first company successfully dispelled all rumors about the shortage of TSMC production capacity available to AMD, recognizing the rate of expansion of all 7-nm products of its own without exception as high as possible. From questions about the impact of a competitor's processor shortage […]
Diablo IV is finally official - Blizzard announced the game at the opening ceremony of BlizzCon 2019 in Anaheim, and it is the first game in the series since Diablo III released in 2012. The project was announced with a long, cinematic story trailer, showcasing the dark mood of the game, reminiscent of earlier projects in the series. Blizzard describes the game's premise this way: "After Black […]
Newfangled technological services are changing our Internet habits. I love files. I like to rename them, move them, sort them, change how they are displayed in a folder, backup them, upload them online, restore them, copy them, and even defragment them. As a metaphor for a way to store a block of information, I think they're great. I like the file as a whole. If I need to write an article, it […]
As you know, the curator of the PCI Express interface, the interindustrial group PCI-SIG, is in a hurry to make up for the long lag behind the schedule in bringing to market a new version of the PCI Express bus using specifications version 5.0. The final version of the PCIe 5.0 specifications was approved this spring, and devices with support for the updated bus should appear on the market in the new year. Let us remember that compared to [...]
Volkswagen Group announced on Monday the creation of a subsidiary, Volkswagen Autonomy (VWAT), in preparation for entering the self-driving car market. The new company, with offices in Munich and Wolfsburg, will be led by Alex Hitzinger, Volkswagen board member and senior vice president for autonomous driving. Volkswagen Autonomy faces the difficult task of developing and implementing […]
This week, Micron Technology held its traditional Micron Insight event, which included a kind of round table with the participation of the CEO of Micron itself, as well as Cadence, Qualcomm and AMD. The head of the last company, Lisa Su, took part in the discussion of the issues raised at the event and began by […]
I am a FirstVDS system administrator, and this is the text of the first introductory lecture from my short course on helping novice colleagues. Specialists who have recently begun to engage in system administration face a number of the same problems. To offer solutions, I undertook to write this series of lectures. Some things in it are specific to hosting technical support, but in general, they can […]
Currently, many projects are being launched whose goal is to replace existing information security tools. And this is not surprising - attacks are becoming more sophisticated, and many security measures can no longer provide the required level of security. During the course of such projects, various difficulties arise - the search for suitable solutions, attempts to “squeeze” into the budget, deliveries, and direct migration to a new solution. As part of […]
Microsoft has announced that Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter, The Final Station, Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter and Joy Ride Turbo will be available to Xbox Live Gold and Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers in November as part of Games with Gold. In Sherlock Holmes: The Devil's Daughter you will become the world's greatest detective. In this fantastic adventure […]
The creator of the not very successful Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey, Patrice Desilets, claims that some of the reviewers did not play the project at all - and even named non-existent features in their reviews. Désilets spoke at Reboot Development Red. According to him, the team was “angry” that some reviewers had come up with features in their texts that were not in the game […]
