Author: ProHoster

P - anticipation, as well as Preliminary Program DUMP Kazan. See the reports that have passed the meat grinder of selection

Every third DUMP speaker said during the selection process: “Wow, how serious things are with you!” or “What, maybe a few runs?” Maybe, maybe... Hardcore and practice, practice and hardcore - this is what the middles who come to DAMPs expect. And the program committee runs each application through 3 selection stages. On November 8, Alexander Orlov (Stratoplan), […]

Backup Part 6: Comparing Backup Tools

This article will compare backup tools, but first you should find out how quickly and well they cope with restoring data from backups. For ease of comparison, we will consider restoring from a full backup, especially since all candidates support this mode of operation. For simplicity, the numbers are already averaged (the arithmetic mean of several runs). […]

Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 Demos Coming to Nintendo Switch

Capcom has released free demos of Resident Evil 5 and Resident Evil 6 on the Australian Nintendo eShop. Nintendo Everything writes about this. Both projects will appear in other regions in the near future. According to the publication, Resident Evil 5 will be released with all the additions, including the No Mercy mode and The Mercenaries United mod. The sixth part will also include […]

The Unseen - The Fifth Vampire Faction Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2

Paradox Interactive has unveiled the latest faction in Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines 2, the Unseen. The Unseelie faction consists solely of Nosferatu, an ugly caste of vampires. Because of their difference from others, they do not participate in the daily life of Seattle, but live in the city subway. Only under the cover of darkness do Nosferatu rise above to find food for themselves. Due to my lifestyle [...]

Developed by Hitman and Warner Bros. will create a new gaming universe

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and Hitman series developer IO Interactive have announced an agreement to publish and distribute the new game for PC and consoles worldwide. IO Interactive studios in Copenhagen (Denmark) and Malmo (Sweden) will participate in the development of the new project. “We are thrilled to continue our relationship with the talented team at IO Interactive, […]

Call of Duty: Mobile became the most downloaded mobile game in its first week

Shooter Call of Duty: Mobile showed the best results in the first week after launch, becoming the most downloaded mobile game in history during the specified period. According to preliminary estimates, the project has been downloaded more than 100 million times, and users have already spent about $17,7 million on it. The data was provided by analytics company Sensor Tower, which notes that Call of Duty: Mobile has surpassed […]

Minit, The Outer Worlds, Stellaris and More Join Xbox Game Pass for PC in October

Microsoft has revealed the games that will be included in the next selection of the Xbox Game Pass catalog for PC. PC users this month will be able to play F1 2018, Lonely Mountains Downhill, Minit, The Outer Worlds, Saints Row IV: Re-Elected, State of Mind and Stellaris, but will lose access to Sinner: Sacrifice for Redemption. In F1 2018 you can improve your reputation as […]

LibreOffice 6 manual translated into Russian

The LibreOffice development community - The Document Foundation announced the translation into Russian of the guide to working in LibreOffice 6 (Getting started guide). The management was translated by: Valery Goncharuk, Alexander Denkin and Roman Kuznetsov. The PDF document contains 470 pages and is distributed under GPLv3+ and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY) licenses. You can download the guide here. Source: […]

Joint Statement on the GNU Project

The text of the joint statement of developers on the GNU project has appeared on the website planet.gnu.org. We, the undersigned GNU maintainers and developers, have Richard Stallman to thank for his decades of work in the free software movement. Stallman constantly emphasized the importance of computer user freedom and laid the groundwork for his dream to become a reality with the development of GNU. We are sincerely grateful to him for [...]

NVIDIA became one of the key sponsors of the Blender project

NVIDIA has joined the Blender Development Fund program as a major sponsor (Patron), donating more than $3 a year to the development of the free 120D modeling system Blender. The exact amount of the donation was not disclosed, but representatives said the funds will be used to pay two additional full-time developers. New employees will be involved in […]

Translation of the LibreOffice 6 manual

The Document Foundation has announced the readiness of a Russian translation of the Getting Started Guide for LibreOffice 6. The document (470 pages, PDF) is distributed under free licenses GPLv3+ and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY). The translation was carried out by Valery Goncharuk, Alexander Denkin and Roman Kuznetsov. The manual includes a description of the basic techniques for working […]

Thunderbird will have built-in support for encryption and digital signatures based on OpenPGP

The developers of the Thunderbird email client have announced their intention to add built-in support for encrypting correspondence and digitally signing letters based on OpenPGP public keys in the release of Thunderbird 78, which is expected next summer. Previously, similar functionality was provided by the Enigmail add-on, which will continue to be supported until the end of support for the Thunderbird 68 branch (in releases after Thunderbird 68, the ability to install Enigmail […]