An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.18. Since the release of version 4.17, 38 bug reports have been closed and 305 changes have been made. The most important changes: Added many new VBScript functions (for example, error handlers, Hour, Day, Month functions, etc.); Cleaned and expanded the functionality of quartz.dll; Exception handling has been added to ntdll and […]
Publisher Activision published a statement on its official blog regarding monetization in the upcoming Call of Duty: Modern Warfare. According to the message, which was previously hinted at by the head of Infinity Ward, loot boxes, a season pass and paid additions will not be added to the game. Only Battle Passes and COD Points currency will be sold. Future additions in the form of maps and modes will all [...]
Electronic Arts has published the system requirements for the racing game Need for Speed Heat in Origins. To run the game you will need an Intel Core i5-3570 or similar processor, 8 GB of RAM and a GTX 760-level video card. Minimum system requirements: Processor: Intel Core i5-3570/FX-6350 or similar; RAM: 8 GB; Video card: GeForce GTX 760/Radeon R9 280x or similar; Hard drive: 50 […]
The digital store Epic Games Store has launched a Halloween sale on the platform. Users can purchase 31 projects at a discount. Among them are The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series, Control, Heavy Rain, Beyond: Two Souls, Darksiders III and other games. The most interesting promotional offers in the Epic Games Store: The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series - 2029 rubles; […]
Good afternoon, I want to share with you my experience in setting up and using the AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) service for Windows containers, or rather about the impossibility of using it, and the bug found in the AWS system container, for those who are interested in this service for Windows containers, please under cat. I know that windows containers are not a popular topic, and few people [...]
In anticipation of the PS5 and Project Scarlett, which will support ray tracing, I started thinking about lighting in games. I found material where the author explains what light is, how it affects design, changes gameplay, aesthetics and experience. All with examples and screenshots. During the game you don’t immediately notice this. Introduction Lighting is needed not only for [...]
One of the internal virtualization racks. We got confused with the color indication of the cables: orange means odd power input, green means even. Here we most often talk about “large equipment” - chillers, diesel generator sets, main switchboards. Today we will talk about “little things” - sockets in racks, also known as Power Distribution Unit (PDU). Our data centers have more than 4 thousand racks filled with IT equipment, so […]
This text is not the result of scientific research, but one of many opinions regarding our immediate technological development. And at the same time an invitation to discussion. Gary Marcus, a professor at New York University, believes that deep learning plays an important role in the development of AI. But he also believes that excessive enthusiasm for this technique can lead to its discredit. In his book Rebooting […]
The release of a lightweight Live distribution of AntiX 19, built on the Debian package base and oriented for installation on outdated equipment, has been prepared. The release is based on the Debian 10 package base (Buster), but ships without the systemd system manager and with eudev instead of udev. The default user environment is created using the IceWM window manager, but fluxbox, jwm and […]
Many have come across a wonderful feature, for example, on HPE switches - if for some reason the config is not saved manually, after a reboot the previous saved config is rolled back. The technology is somewhat ruthless (forgot to save it - do it again), but fair and reliable. But in Mikrotik, there is no such function in the database, although the sign has long been known: “remote configuration of a router […]
Many of us like to listen to the radio in the morning. And then one fine morning I realized that I didn’t want to listen to local FM radio stations. Not interested. But the habit turned out to be harmful. And I decided to replace the FM receiver with an Internet receiver. I quickly bought parts on Aliexpress and assembled an Internet receiver. About the Internet receiver. The heart of the receiver is the ESP32 microcontroller. Firmware from […]
The Russian brand of mobile electronics BQ announced the addition of the Magic smartphone series with a new model BQ 5731L Magic S running Android 9 Pie. The BQ 5731L Magic S camera phone is equipped with a frameless IPS screen with a diagonal of 5,84 inches, an aspect ratio of 19:9 and Full HD+ resolution (2246 × 1080 pixels). The device is based on an eight-core UNISOC SC9863A processor, has 3 […]
