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Release of Caliber 4.0 e-book collection management system

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The release of the Caliber 4.0 application is available, automating the basic operations of maintaining a collection of e-books. Caliber allows you to navigate through the library, read books, convert formats, synchronize with portable devices on which you read, and view news about new products on popular web resources. It also includes a server implementation for organizing access to your home collection from anywhere on the Internet. […]

Paid Windows 7 upgrades will be available to all companies

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As you know, on January 14, 2020, support for Windows 7 will end for regular users. But businesses will continue to receive paid Extended Security Updates (ESU) for another three years. This applies to the editions of Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Enterprise, and companies of all sizes will receive them, although initially we were talking about large corporations with large volumes of orders for operating systems […]

Flash Memory Reliability: The Expected and the Unexpected. Part 1. XIV Conference of the USENIX Association. File Storage Technologies

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As solid-state drives based on flash memory technology become the primary means of permanent storage in data centers, it is important to understand how reliable they are. To date, a large number of laboratory studies of flash memory chips have been carried out using synthetic tests, but there is a lack of information about their behavior in the field. This article reports on the results of a large-scale field study covering millions of days of use […]

Digest of October IT events (part one)

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We continue our review of events for IT specialists who organize communities from different cities of Russia. October begins with the return of blockchain and hackathons, the strengthening of the position of web development and the gradually increasing activity of the regions. Lecture evening on game design When: October 2 Where: Moscow, st. Trifonovskaya, 57, building 1 Conditions of participation: free, registration required A meetup designed for maximum practical benefit for the listener. Here […]

"Where is that young punk that will wipe us off the face of the earth?"

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I asked myself the existential question put in the title in Grebenshchikov’s formulation after another round of discussion in one of the communities about whether a beginning web backend developer needs SQL knowledge, or whether ORM will do everything anyway. I decided to look for the answer a little broader than just about ORM and SQL, and, in principle, try to systematize who the people who […]

Caliber 4.0

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Two years after the release of the third version, Caliber 4.0 was released. Caliber is free software for reading, creating and storing books of various formats in an electronic library. The program code is distributed under the GNU GPLv3 license. Caliber 4.0. includes several interesting features, including new content server capabilities, a new eBook viewer that focuses on text […]

MaSzyna 19.08 - free rail transport simulator

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MaSzyna is a free railway transport simulator created in 2001 by Polish developer Martin Wojnik. The new version of MaSzyna contains more than 150 scenarios and about 20 scenes, including one realistic scene based on the real Polish railway line “Ozimek - Częstochowa” (total track length about 75 km in the southwestern part of Poland). Fictional scenes are presented as […]

Linux tips & tricks: server, open

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For those who need to provide themselves, their loved ones, with access to their servers from anywhere in the world via SSH/RDP/other, a small RTFM/spur. We need to do without VPN and other bells and whistles, from any device at hand. And so that you don’t have to exercise too much with the server. All you need is knockd, straight arms and 5 minutes of work. "In the Internet […]

Remote control of a computer through a browser

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About six months ago I decided to make a program to control a computer through a browser. I started with a simple single-socket HTTP server that transferred images to the browser and received cursor coordinates for control. At a certain stage I realized that WebRTC technology is well suited for these purposes. The Chrome browser has such a solution; it is installed via an extension. But I wanted to make a lightweight program [...]

Samsung closes its last smartphone factory in China

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According to online sources, the last plant of the South Korean company Samsung, located in China and producing smartphones, will be closed at the end of this month. This message appeared in the Korean media, to which the source refers. The Samsung plant in Guangdong province was launched at the end of 1992. This summer, Samsung reduced its production capacity and implemented […]

Until the end of October, the announcement of the Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro smartphone with a 108-megapixel camera is expected

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At the beginning of July, the Chinese company Xiaomi announced the Mi CC9 and Mi CC9e smartphones - mid-level devices aimed primarily at young people. Now it is reported that these devices will have a more powerful brother. The new product, according to rumors, will hit the market under the name Xiaomi Mi CC9 Pro. There is no information about the characteristics of the display yet. The Full panel will probably be applied […]

Sharp showcases flexible 12,3-inch AMOLED panel for automotive systems

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Sharp demonstrated a flexible AMOLED display with a diagonal of 12,3 inches and a resolution of 1920 × 720 pixels, intended for use in automotive systems. To manufacture the flexible display substrate, IGZO's proprietary technology using indium, gallium and zinc oxide is used. The use of IGZO technology reduces response time and pixel size. Sharp also claims that IGZO-based panels […]

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