Author: ProHoster

Preparing to Port MATE Applications to Wayland

In order to collaborate on porting MATE applications to run on Wayland, the developers of the Mir display server and the MATE desktop teamed up. They have already prepared the mate-wayland snap package, which is a MATE environment based on Wayland. True, for its everyday use it is necessary to carry out work on porting end applications to Wayland. Another problem is that [...]

New article: ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo UX581GV review: the future of laptops or a failed experiment?

I knew that ASUS was preparing a laptop with two screens at the beginning of this year. In general, as a person who constantly monitors mobile technology, it has long been obvious to me that manufacturers are striving to expand the functionality of their products precisely by installing a second display. We are seeing attempts to integrate additional screens into smartphones. We see that by the same […]

NASA allocates $2,7 billion to build three Orion spacecraft for lunar missions

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has selected a contractor to build spacecraft to carry out lunar missions as part of the Artemis program. The space agency awarded a contract for the production and operation of Orion spacecraft to Lockheed Martin. It is reported that the production of spacecraft for the Orion program under the leadership of NASA Space Center […]

Run systemd in a container

We have been following the topic of using systemd in containers for a long time. Back in 2014, our security engineer Daniel Walsh wrote an article Running systemd within a Docker Container, and a couple of years later another one called Running systemd in a non-privileged container, in which he stated that the situation is not has improved a lot. IN […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 49 Introduction to EIGRP

Today we will begin studying the EIGRP protocol, which, along with studying OSPF, is the most important topic of the CCNA course. We'll return to Section 2.5 later, but for now, right after Section 2.4, we'll move on to Section 2.6, “Configuring, Verifying, and Troubleshooting EIGRP over IPv4 (Excluding Authentication, Filtering, Manual Summarization, Redistribution, and Stub Configuration).” Today we will have […]

Roskomnadzor checked Sony and Huawei for compliance with the law on personal data

The Federal Service for Supervision of Communications, Information Technology and Mass Communications (Roskomnadzor) reported on the completion of inspections of Mercedes-Benz, Sony and Huawei for compliance with laws on personal data. We are talking about the need to localize personal data of Russian users on servers in the Russian Federation. The relevant law came into force on September 1, 2015, but so far [...]

Samsung showed the latest modular screens The Wall Luxury

Samsung presented its advanced modular screens, The Wall Luxury, at Paris Fashion Week and the largest yacht exhibition Monaco Yacht Show. These panels are made using MicroLED technology. The devices use microscopic LEDs, the dimensions of which do not exceed several microns. MicroLED technology requires no color filters or additional backlighting but still delivers a stunning visual experience. […]

The Perforated Cooler Master MM710 weighs only 53 grams

Cooler Master has announced a new gaming-class computer mouse - the MM710 model, which will go on sale on the Russian market in November this year. The manipulator received a durable perforated housing in the form of a honeycomb. The device weighs only 53 grams (without connecting cable), which makes the new product the lightest mouse in the Cooler Master range. The PixArt PMW 3389 optical sensor is used […]

'Heavy Metal Inspired' Platformer Valfaris Coming This Fall

The 10D action-platformer Valfaris, “inspired by the energy of heavy metal,” has received release dates on all platforms. On October 4, it will visit PC (Steam, GOG and Humble) and Nintendo Switch, and a month later the game will appear on PlayStation 5 (November 6 in the US, November 8 in Europe) and Xbox One (November XNUMX). “After mysteriously disappearing from intergalactic maps, the citadel of Valfaris suddenly appeared […]

The cost of the Russian analogue of Wikipedia was estimated at almost 2 billion rubles

The amount that the creation of a domestic analogue of Wikipedia will cost the Russian budget has become known. According to the draft federal budget for 2020 and the next two years, it is planned to allocate almost 1,7 billion rubles to the open joint-stock company “Scientific Publishing House “Big Russian Encyclopedia” (BRE) for the creation of a national Internet portal, which will be an alternative to Wikipedia. In particular, in 2020, the creation and operation of […]

Zeek Traffic Analyzer 3.0.0 Released

Seven years after the formation of the last significant branch, the release of the traffic analysis and network intrusion detection system Zeek 3.0.0, previously distributed under the name Bro. This is the first significant release after the renaming of the project, made because the name Bro was associated with the fringe subculture of the same name, and not as an allusion intended by the authors to the “big brother” from the novel by George […]