This week the TechTrain IT festival will be held in St. Petersburg. One of the speakers will be Richard Stallman. Embox is also participating in the festival, and of course we could not ignore the topic of open source software. That’s why one of our reports is called “From student crafts to opensource projects.” Embox experience.” It will be dedicated to the history of Embox's development as an open source project. IN […]
Prologue There are several articles, for example, How I enrolled in distance education at Walden (USA), How to enroll in a master's program in England, or Distance learning at Stanford University. All of them have one drawback: the authors shared early learning experiences or preparation experiences. This is certainly useful, but leaves room for imagination. I'll tell you how it happens [...]
Release of Lutris v0.5.3 - an open gaming platform created to simplify the installation and launch of games for GNU/Linux from GOG, Steam, Battle.net, Origin, Uplay and others using specially prepared scripts. Innovations: Added D9VK option; Added support for Discord Rich Presence; Added the ability to launch the WINE console; When DXVK or D9VK is enabled, the WINE_LARGE_ADDRESS_AWARE variable is set to 1, […]
On the same day, ZeroNet 0.7 and 0.7.1 were released, a platform distributed under the GPLv2 license, designed for creating decentralized sites using Bitcoin cryptography and the BitTorrent network. Features of ZeroNet: Websites updated in real time; Namecoin .bit domain support; Cloning websites in one click; Password-less BIP32 based authorization: Your account is protected by the same cryptography that […]
The first corrective update of the Debian 10 distribution has been generated, which includes package updates released in the two months since the release of the new branch, and eliminated shortcomings in the installer. The release includes 102 updates that fix stability problems and 34 updates that fix vulnerabilities. Among the changes in Debian 10.1, we can note the removal of 2 packages: pump (unmaintained and […]
Ubisoft is actively preparing for its next premiere - on October 4, the third-person cooperative action movie Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint will be released, which develops the ideas of Ghost Recon Wildlands. A little earlier, the developers released a humorous animated video “Bad Wolves,” and now they have presented a trailer that reveals in more detail the details of the upcoming shooter. Breakpoint will offer you the opportunity to play as Ghost, an elite US special forces operative who […]
Back in the fourth quarter of last year, AMD products occupied no more than 19% of the discrete graphics market, according to statistics from Jon Peddie Research. In the first quarter, this share increased to 23%, and in the second it rose to 32%, which can be considered a very lively dynamic. Note that AMD did not release any massive new graphics solutions during these periods […]
Acer at IFA 2019 in Berlin introduced the new PL1 series laser projectors (PL1520i/PL1320W/PL1220), designed for exhibition venues, various events and medium-sized conference rooms. The devices are specially designed for business use. They are designed for 30/000 operation with minimal maintenance. The service life of the laser module reaches 4000 hours. Brightness is XNUMX […]
ASUS is one of the first to bring high refresh rate displays to the gaming laptop market. So, it was the first to release laptops with a frequency of 120 Hz in 2016, the first to release a mobile PC with a monitor with a frequency of 144 Hz, and then the first to release a laptop with a frequency of 240 Hz this year. At the IFA exhibition the company for the first time […]
In the environment of SRE/DevOps engineers, it will not surprise anyone that one day a client (or a monitoring system) appears and reports that “everything is lost”: the site does not work, payments do not go through, life is decaying... No matter how much you would like to help in such a situation , it can be very difficult to do this without a simple and understandable tool. Often the problem is hidden in the code of the application itself—you just need to [...]
A message appeared on the website of the non-profit organization Wikimedia Foundation, which supports the infrastructure of several crowdsourcing wiki projects, including Wikipedia, saying that the failure of the Internet encyclopedia was due to a targeted hacker attack. Earlier it became known that in a number of countries Wikipedia temporarily switched to offline operation. According to available data, access to […]
During the EVO 2019 event, Tekken 7 director Katsuhiro Harada announced the third season of the game. Now the company has presented a detailed trailer dedicated to the new season of the fighting game, and announced that the subscription will go on sale on September 10 in versions for PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC. It will include four characters, an arena and many other new features […]
