Author: ProHoster

"Golden section" in the economy - what is it?

A few words about the “golden ratio” in the traditional sense. It is believed that if a segment is divided into parts in such a way that the smaller part is related to the larger one, as the larger part is to the whole segment, then such a division gives a proportion of 1/1,618, which the ancient Greeks, having borrowed it from even more ancient Egyptians, they called it the “golden ratio”. And that many architectural structures […]

Release of the distributed source control system Git 2.23

The release of the distributed source control system Git 2.23.0 has been announced. Git is one of the most popular, reliable and high-performance version control systems, providing flexible non-linear development tools based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resistance to retroactive changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history in each commit is used, and digital authentication is also possible […]

Wine 4.14 release

An experimental release of an open implementation of the Win32 API is available - Wine 4.14. Since the release of version 4.13, 18 bug reports have been closed and 255 changes have been made. The most important changes: The Mono engine has been updated to version 4.9.2, which has eliminated problems when launching DARK and DLC quests; DLLs in PE (Portable Executable) format are no longer tied to […]

US regulator bans recalled MacBook Pros from flying due to battery fire risk

The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) said it would ban airline passengers from taking certain Apple MacBook Pro laptop models on flights after the company recalled a number of devices due to the risk of battery fires. “The FAA is aware of a recall of batteries used in certain Apple MacBook Pro notebook computers,” an agency spokesperson said Monday in an email […]

ESA explained the reason for the second failure with testing of ExoMars-2020 parachutes

The European Space Agency (ESA) has confirmed earlier rumors, saying another test of parachutes to be used on the Russian-European ExoMars 2020 mission ended in failure last week, jeopardizing its schedule. missions. As part of the tests planned before the mission's launch, several tests of the lander's parachutes were carried out at the Esrange test site of the Swedish Space Corporation (SSC). First […]

Simplifying the migration from OpenShift 3 to OpenShift 4

So, the official launch of the Red Hat OpenShift 4 platform has taken place. Today we will tell you how to switch to it from OpenShift Container Platform 3 as quickly and easily as possible. For the purposes of this article, we are primarily interested in the new OpenShift 4 clusters, which take advantage of the capabilities of a smart and immutable infrastructure based on RHEL CoreOS and […]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 17. CCNA course summary and roadmap

Today we will summarize our training and look at what we will study in the remaining series of video lessons. Since we are using Cisco training materials, we will visit the company website located at www.cisco.com to see how much we have learned and how much is left to complete the course. Translator's note: since the posting of this video on November 28.11.2015, XNUMX, the Cisco website design and content […]

Slurm DevOps: why we will not discuss the philosophy of DevOps and what will happen instead

Today at Southbridge we discussed turquoise management at a planning meeting. There were those who proposed moving from top to bottom, from idea to practice. Like, let's implement the turquoise management philosophy: find a standard, make a decision on how roles should be divided, how communication should be built, and start moving along this path. There were those (myself included) who wanted to move […]

AMD Stops Advertising Linux RdRand Support for Bulldozer and Jaguar CPUs

Some time ago, it became known that on computers with AMD Zen 2 processors, the game Destiny 2 may not launch, and the latest Linux distributions may not load. The problem was related to the instruction for generating the random number RdRand. And although the BIOS update solved the problem for the latest “red” chips, the company decided not to take risks and no longer plans […]

The creation of the Skyblivion mod that brings The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to the Skyrim engine is almost complete

Enthusiasts from the TES Renewal team continue to work on a creation called Skyblivion. This modification is being created with the goal of transferring The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion to the Skyrim engine, and soon everyone will be able to evaluate the work. The authors released a new trailer for the mod and reported that the work is nearing completion. The first frames of the trailer show colorful natural landscapes and the hero running […]

Epic Games Store adds support for cloud saves

The Epic Games Store has launched support for a cloud save system. This is reported in the service blog. Currently, 15 projects support the function, and the company wants to expand this list in the future. It is also noted that future games of the store will already be released with this function. List of games that currently support cloud saves: Alan Wake; Close to the Sun; […]

GlobalFoundries again seen in the "squandering" of the legacy of IBM

Since the beginning of this year, GlobalFoundries has been actively selling off assets and certain areas of its chip design and production business. This even gave rise to rumors about preparations for the sale of GlobalFoundries itself. The company traditionally denies everything and talks about optimizing its activities. Yesterday, this optimization reached the important business of the manufacturer, part of which was founded by the company […]