Whatever you say, knowledge management (KM) still remains such a strange animal among IT specialists: It seems clear that knowledge is power (c), but usually this means some kind of personal knowledge, one’s own experience, completed trainings, pumped up skills. Enterprise-wide knowledge management systems are rarely thought about, sluggishly, and, basically, they do not understand what value [...]
Hi all. Six months have passed since KnowledgeConf 2019, during which time I managed to speak at two more conferences and give lectures on the topic of knowledge management in two large IT companies. Communicating with colleagues, I realized that in IT it is still possible to talk about knowledge management at the “beginner” level, or rather, just to realize that knowledge management is necessary for anyone [...]
Despite the abandonment of the Unity shell and the transition to Gnome, Canonical continues to develop the Mir display server, which was recently released under version 1.5. Among the changes, one can note the expansion of the MirAL layer (Mir Abstraction Layer), used to avoid direct access to the Mir server and abstract access to the ABI through the libmiral library. MirAL has been added […]
The South Korean company Samsung announced the start of sales in Russia of a QLED 8K TV with a screen diagonal of 55 inches. The new product can already be purchased on the official Samsung website or in one of the manufacturer’s branded stores. The presented model supports a resolution of 7680 × 4320 pixels and has all the main functions of the QLED 8K line. High level of brightness and color accuracy [...]
In 1502, Sultan Bayezid II planned to build a bridge across the Golden Horn to connect Istanbul and the neighboring city of Galata. Among the responses from leading engineers of that time, the project of the well-known Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci distinguished itself by its extreme originality. Traditional bridges at that time were a noticeably curved arch with spans. For the bridge […]
A group of scientists from Brown University has studied a problem that has long remained without a solution. Thus, at one time, an extremely durable polymer PBO (polybenzoxazole) was proposed for body armor. Based on polybenzoxazole, serial body armor was produced for the US Army, but after some time they were withdrawn. It turned out that this material of body armor is subject to unpredictable destruction under the influence of moisture. This […]
The task of connecting a USB device to a remote PC via a local network regularly arises. Below the cut is the history of my searches in this direction, and the path to a ready-made solution based on the open-source USB/IP project with a description of the obstacles carefully installed by various people along this path, as well as ways to bypass them. Part one, historical If the machine is virtual, all this is not difficult. […]
In connection with changes in legislation regarding trust services (“About electronic trust services” Ukraine), the enterprise has a need for several departments to work with keys located on tokens (at the moment, the question of the number of hardware keys is still open). As a tool with the least cost (free of charge), the choice immediately fell on usbip. The server on Ubintu 18.04 started working thanks to the publication Taming […]
The entirety of Fortnite, including the menu and map, was sucked into a black hole during the Season 1 finale, appropriately titled "The End." The game's social media accounts, servers, and forums also went dark. Only the animation of the black hole is visible. This event likely marks the end of Chapter XNUMX and the change of the island players were trying to stay alive on. "The End" can be [...]
The head of the CD Projekt RED branch in Krakow, John Mamais, said that he would like to see multiplayer projects in the Cyberpunk and The Witcher universes in the future. According to PCGamesN, citing an interview with GameSpot, the director likes the above-mentioned franchises and would like to work on them in the future. John Mamais asked about CD Projekt RED projects with […]
Data miner and programmer Martin Benjamins tweeted that he was able to gain access to the Warcraft III: Reforged closed beta client. He was unable to enter the game itself, but the enthusiast showed what the menu looked like, discovered details of the Versus mode and hints at open testing. Following Benjamins, other data miners began digging into the project files […]
CD Projekt RED has confirmed that its upcoming sci-fi action RPG Cyberpunk 2077 will likely not be coming to Nintendo Switch. In a wide-ranging interview with Gamespot, Krakow studio head John Mamais said that while the team initially didn't even consider bringing The Witcher 3 to Switch and then went ahead with it, it's still very unlikely that […]
