Author: ProHoster

The console release of the shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm is scheduled for spring 2020

Developers from the New World Interactive studio have announced the release window for the tactical shooter Insurgency: Sandstorm on consoles - the premiere is scheduled for spring 2020. Development lead Derek Czerkaski explained why the console versions were in limbo for some time. PC users were the first to receive the shooter on December 12 last year. Alas, at the time of release the game was far from [...]

Narcos TV series is getting a live-action adaptation

Publisher Curve Digital presented a game adaptation of Narcos, a Netflix series that tells the story of the formation of the famous Medellin cartel. The game, called Narcos: Rise of the Cartels, is being developed by Kuju Studio. “Welcome to Colombia in the 1980s, El Patron is building a drug empire that no one can stop from expanding,” says the project description. — Thanks to his influence and bribes, the drug lord […]

Questions for the future employer

At the end of each interview, the applicant is asked if there are any questions left. A rough estimate from my colleagues is that 4 out of 5 candidates learn about team size, what time to come to the office, and less often about technology. Such questions work in the short term, because after a couple of months what is important for them is not the quality of the equipment, but the mood in the team, the number of meetings […]

Habr Weekly #19 / BT door for a cat, why AI cheats, what to ask your future employer, a day with iPhone 11 Pro

In this episode: 00:38 - The developer created a door for a cat that only allows animals with a Bluetooth pass into the house, AnnieBronson 11:33 - AI was taught to play hide and seek, and he learned to cheat, AnnieBronson 19:25 - Questions for a future employer, Milording 30:53 — Vanya shares his impressions of the new iPhone and Apple Watch During the conversation, we mentioned (or really wanted to) […]

Microsoft has published a new open monospace font Cascadia Code

Microsoft has published an open monospace font, Cascadia Code, which is intended to be used in terminal emulators and code editors. The font is distributed under the OFL 1.1 license (Open Font License), which allows you to unlimitedly modify it and use it for commercial purposes, print and web. The font is available in ttf format. Download from GitHub Source: linux.org.ru

Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7

On September 21, 2019, the Apache Foundation announced a maintenance release of Apache OpenOffice 4.1.7. Main changes: Added support for AdoptOpenJDK. Fixed a bug leading to possible crashes when executing Freetype code. Fixed Writer application crashing when using Frame in OS/2. Fixed a bug causing the Apache OpenOffice TM logo on the loading screen to have a different background. […]

FreeBSD 12.1 Beta Started

The first beta release of FreeBSD 12.1 is ready. FreeBSD 12.1-BETA1 release is available for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, powerpcspe, sparc64 and armv6, armv7 and aarch64 architectures. Additionally, images have been prepared for virtualization systems (QCOW2, VHD, VMDK, raw) and Amazon EC2 cloud environments. FreeBSD 12.1 is scheduled for release on November 4th. Among the changes it is noted: The libomp library (runtime OpenMP implementation) is included in the composition; […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 44 Introduction to OSPF

Today we will begin learning about OSPF routing. This topic, like the EIGRP protocol, is the most important topic in the entire CCNA course. As you can see, Section 2.4 is titled “Configuring, Testing, and Troubleshooting OSPFv2 Single-Zone and Multi-Zone for IPv4 (Excluding Authentication, Filtering, Manual Route Summarization, Redistribution, Stub Area, VNet, and LSA).” The OSPF topic is quite […]

My second week with Haiku: lots of hidden gems and surprises, plus some problems

Editing screenshot for this article - in Haiku TL;DR: Performance is much better than originally. ACPI was to blame. Running in a virtual machine works fine for screen sharing. Git and a package manager are built into the file manager. Public wireless networks do not work. Frustration with python. Last week I discovered Haiku, a surprisingly good system. AND […]

Cron in Linux: history, usage and device

The classic wrote that happy hours do not watch. In those wild times there were neither programmers nor Unix, but today programmers know for sure: cron will keep track of time instead of them. Command line utilities are both a weakness and a chore for me. sed, awk, wc, cut and other old programs are run by scripts on our servers every day. Many […]

"Anonymous data" or what is planned in 152-FZ

A brief excerpt from the bill on amendments to the Federal Law of July 27.07.2006, 152 N 152-FZ “On Personal Data” (152-FZ). With these amendments, XNUMX-FZ will “allow trading” of Big Data and will strengthen the rights of the operator of personal data. Perhaps readers will be interested in paying attention to the key points. For a detailed analysis, of course, it is recommended to read the source. As stated in the explanatory note: The bill was developed […]

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde corporate culture

Free thoughts on the topic of corporate culture, inspired by the article Three Years of Misery Inside Google, the Happiest Company in Tech. There is also a free retelling of it in Russian. To put it very, very briefly, the point is that the good in meaning and message of the values ​​that Google laid in the foundation of its corporate culture, at some point began to work […]