Author: ProHoster

The personal hell of the writer Fraerman, or the Tale of first love

As a child, I was probably an anti-Semite. And all because of him. Here he is. He always annoyed me. I simply adored Paustovsky’s magnificent series of stories about a thief cat, a rubber boat, etc. And only he spoiled everything. For a long time I could not understand why Paustovsky was hanging out with this Fraerman? Some cartoonish Jew with a stupid name […]

Microsoft adds FPS and achievements widgets to Xbox Game Bar on PC

Microsoft has made a number of changes to the PC version of the Xbox Game Bar. The developers added an in-game frame rate counter to the panel and allowed users to customize the overlay in more detail. Users can now adjust transparency and other appearance elements. The frame rate counter has been added to the rest of the system indicators that were previously available. The player can also enable or disable it […]

Fear, pain and hate technical support

Habr is not a book of complaints. This article is about Nirsoft's free tools for Windows system administrators. When contacting technical support, people often feel stressed. Some people worry that they won't be able to explain the problem and will look stupid. Some people are overwhelmed with emotions and it is difficult to contain their indignation about the quality of the service - after all, there was nothing […]

DevOps and Chaos: software delivery in a decentralized world

The founder and director of Otomato Software, one of the initiators and instructors of the first DevOps certification in Israel, Anton Weiss, spoke at last year’s DevOpsDays Moscow about chaos theory and the main principles of chaos engineering, and also explained how the ideal DevOps organization of the future works. We have prepared a text version of the report. Good morning! DevOpsDays in Moscow for the second year in a row, this is my second time at this […]

What's new in Zabbix 4.4

The Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of Zabbix 4.4. The latest version comes with a new Zabbix agent written in Go, sets standards for Zabbix templates and provides advanced visualization capabilities. Let's take a look at the most important features included in Zabbix 4.4. Next generation Zabbix agent Zabbix 4.4 introduces a new agent type, zabbix_agent2, which offers a wide range of new […]

Two "Comrades", or Phlogiston of the Civil War

Above the fat man on the left - who stands next to Simonov and one across from Mikhalkov - Soviet writers constantly made fun of him. Mainly because of his resemblance to Khrushchev. Daniil Granin recalled this in his memoirs about him (the fat man’s name, by the way, was Alexander Prokofiev): “At a meeting of Soviet writers with N. S. Khrushchev, the poet S. V. Smirnov said: “You [...]

Canonical changes director of desktop systems development

Will Cooke, who has led the development of the desktop edition of Ubuntu since 2014, announced his departure from Canonical. Will's new place of work will be the company InfluxData, which is developing the open source DBMS InfluxDB. After Will, the post of director of desktop systems development at Canonical will be taken by Martin Wimpress, co-founder of the Ubuntu MATE editorial team and part of the Core Team of the MATE project. At Canonical […]

Horror Underworld Dreams based on "The King in Yellow" will be released in early 2020

Drop of Pixel studio has announced the horror game Underworld Dreams for Nintendo Switch. The game is based on the collection of short stories “The King in Yellow” by Robert Chambers. Underworld Dreams is a first-person psychological horror game set in the eighties. Arthur Adler returns to Grok's house, where the murders for which he was accused were committed. There he will discover something supernatural. […]

#FixWWE2K20 call: fans of the fighting game series unhappy with the latest installment

Fighting game WWE 2K20 released yesterday on PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but this year's installment of the annual franchise is particularly different from last year's. And not for the better. The game suffers from a variety of bugs and other issues, including long loading times for online matches and glitches in playback. WWE 2K20 also looks much worse than previous installments. All this […]

Video: 13 minutes of fun in Luigi's Mansion 3 multiplayer mini-games

Nintendo has released a 13-minute gameplay video for Luigi's Mansion 3, featuring ScreamPark multiplayer mini-games. In ScreamPark mode, users can play with up to seven other ghost hunters on a single Nintendo Switch console. Having divided into teams of two people, those who wish will compete in mini-games. One of these mini-games is Ghost Hunt. In it, teams need […]

The authors of BioShock Infinite are developing a game in the genre of immersive sim

In 2014, developer Irrational Games, which released System Shock 2, BioShock and BioShock Infinite, was restructured and significantly downsized. The handful that remained, including creative director Kevin Levine, founded Ghost Story Games in 2017 as a new brand for their former workplace. The studio is working on a small project, but is in no hurry to share its details. However, still [...]

They are waking up! (science-fiction story, part 1 of 2)

/* Readers of the Science Fiction hub are offered a short science fiction story. The story is divided into 2 parts, the first is below the cut. The second part is filled and ready for use. It will be published in three days - if the first part does not go negative. */ 1. — “Humanism” evokes the Earth. “Humanism” evokes the Earth. - Earth on the wire. - […]