Bullet is a remuneration system. Nothing supernatural, the idea is on the surface, the results are not long in coming. The name was not invented by me, but by the owner of the company where this system was implemented. Just like that, he listened to the arguments and features, and said: “This is a Bullet!” He probably meant that he liked the system, not that […]
On October 9, the release of NixOS 19.09, codenamed Loris, was announced on the project’s official website. NixOS is a distribution with a unique approach to package management and system configuration. The distribution is built on the basis of the “functionally pure” Nix package manager and its own configuration system using a functional DSL (Nix expression language) that allows you to declaratively describe the desired state of the system. […]
In this article we will solve the 25th task from the site pwnable.kr. Organizational informationEspecially for those who want to learn something new and develop in any of the areas of information and computer security, I will write and talk about the following categories: PWN; cryptography (Crypto); network technologies (Network); reverse (Reverse Engineering); steganography (Stegano); search and exploitation of WEB vulnerabilities. In addition to this, I […]
Rumors persistently continue to circulate on cryptocurrency forums and telegram chats that the reason for the recent significant decline in the BTC rate was the news that Google had achieved quantum supremacy. This news, originally posted on NASA's website and then spread by The Financial Times, coincidentally coincided with a sudden drop in the power of the Bitcoin network. Many decided that this coincidence meant [...]
Introduction Good afternoon, Khabrovsk residents. Just now I was solving a test task for a QA Lead vacancy for a fintech company. The first task, to create a test plan with a complete checklist and examples of test cases for testing an electric kettle, can be solved trivially: GOST 7400-81. Household electric kettles and electric samovars. Technical specifications (with Amendments N 1-8) GOST IEC 60335-1-2015 Household and similar electrical appliances. Safety. […]
If you're having a hard time choosing your favorite Hidetaka Miyazaki game, you're not alone. The director himself was asked to name his favorite project, and although he said that he loves all his games, in the end he still preferred Bloodborne. Speaking to GameSpot Brazil, Hidetaka Miyazaki said that Bloodborne is his favorite game, despite the fact that it could […]
This year, following Toshiba, WDC and Seagate began producing hard drives with 9 magnetic platters. This became possible thanks to the advent of both thinner plates and the transition to sealed blocks with plates in which air is replaced by helium. The lower density of helium places less stress on the plates and leads to lower electricity consumption […]
Last week, Intel announced a new generation of high-performance desktop (HEDT) processors, Cascade Lake-X. The new products differ from last year's Skylake-X Refresh by almost half the cost and higher clock speeds. However, Intel claims that users will be able to independently increase the frequencies of the new chips. “You can overclock any of them and get really interesting results,” […]
It all started a little over a year ago, in July 2018, when the first hardware device of the Yandex company was presented - the YNDX.Station smart speaker was released under the symbol YNDX-0001. But before we had time to be properly surprised, devices of the YNDX series, equipped with the proprietary Alice voice assistant (or oriented to work with it), fell like a cornucopia. And now for testing […]
Once, during an interview, I was asked, what will you do if you find a service not working due to the fact that the disk has run out of space? Of course, I replied that I would see what was occupied by this place and, if possible, I would clean the place. Then the interviewer asked, what if there is no free space on the partition, but also files that would take up all […]
Cisco has published the release of Snort 2.9.15.0, a free attack detection and prevention system that combines signature matching techniques, protocol inspection tools, and anomaly detection mechanisms. The new release adds the ability to detect RAR archives and files in egg and alg formats in transit traffic. New debugging calls have been implemented to display information about the definition […]
As you know, at the recent Surface event, Microsoft introduced a version of Windows 10 for a completely new category of computing devices. We are talking about dual-screen foldable devices that combine the features of laptops and tablets. At the same time, according to experts, the Windows 10X operating system (Windows Core OS) is intended not only for this category. The fact is that Windows […]
