Author: ProHoster

Curiosity finds possible signs of life on Mars

Experts analyzing information from the Mars rover Curiosity announced an important discovery: a high content of methane was recorded in the atmosphere near the surface of the Red Planet. In the Martian atmosphere, methane molecules, if they appear, should be destroyed by solar ultraviolet radiation within two to three centuries. Thus, the detection of methane molecules could indicate recent biological or volcanic activity. In other words, molecules […]

New US sanctions: AMD joint ventures in China doomed

The other day it became known that the US Department of Commerce added five new Chinese companies and organizations to the list of unreliable ones from the point of view of national security interests, and all American companies will now have to stop cooperation and interaction with the listed persons on the list. The reason for such actions was the recognition by the Chinese manufacturer of supercomputers and server equipment Sugon of using specialized […]

Solaris 11.4 SRU 10 Update

An update to the Solaris 11.4 SRU 10 operating system has been published, which offers a series of regular fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes offered in the update, just run the 'pkg update' command. In the new release: Added PHP 7.3.2 package with xdebug 2.7.0; The composition includes the SCAT (Solaris Crash Analysis Tool) version 5.5.1; Updated software versions: […]

Release of nginx 1.17.1 and njs 0.3.3

The release of the main nginx 1.17.1 branch is available, within which the development of new features continues (in the parallel supported stable branch 1.16, only changes are made related to the elimination of serious errors and vulnerabilities. Main changes: The limit_req_dry_run directive has been added, which activates the dry run mode, in which no restrictions are applied on the intensity of request processing (without rate limit), but the accounting of output […]

The Steam Summer Sale has started with the opportunity to get the desired games

Valve has launched a summer sale on Steam. As part of the sale, there is a Steam Grand Prix event with various rewards. The Steam Grand Prix will run from June 25 to July 7. As part of the event, you can team up with friends to complete a task and earn rewards. Random Steam Grand Prix participants of the top three teams will receive their most desired games, so it's worth updating […]

Video: Horror Close to the Sun coming to Nintendo Switch this year

There are many projects available for adult audiences on Nintendo Switch. Publisher Wired Productions and Italian studio Storm in a Teacup announced that by the end of the year the first-person horror game Close to the Sun, previously released on PC (on the Epic Games Store), will appear on the console. To mark the occasion, a trailer was unveiled, taking players onto Nikola's eerie ship […]

When you want to quit

I constantly see young developers who, after taking programming courses, lose faith in themselves and think that this job is not for them. When I first started my journey, I thought about changing my profession several times, but, fortunately, I never did. You shouldn't give up either. When you're a beginner, every task seems difficult, and programming […]

Catch Me If You Can. Prophet Version

I am not the Prophet you might be thinking about. I am that prophet who is not in his own country. I don't play the popular game "catch me if you can". You don’t need to catch me, I’m always at hand. I'm always busy. I don’t just work, carry out duties and follow directions like most people, but I try to improve at least [...]

VCV Rack 1.0

A stable version of the free modular synthesizer VCV Rack has been released. Main changes: polyphony up to 16 voices; accelerated engine with multithreading support; new modules CV-GATE (for drum machines), CV-MIDI (for synthesizers) and CV-CC (for Eurorack); fast and simple MIDI mapping; MIDI Polyphonic Expression support; new visual browser by modules (the old one with text search is still available); cancellation and return of actions; pop-up […]

nftables 0.9.1 packet filter release

After a year of development, the release of the packet filter nftables 0.9.1 is presented, developing as a replacement for iptables, ip6table, arptables and ebtables by unifying packet filtering interfaces for IPv4, IPv6, ARP and network bridges. The nftables package includes packet filter components that run in user space, while the kernel-level work is provided by the nf_tables subsystem, which is part of […]

Futurology Congress: a selection of accounts of evangelists of the future

In ancient times, one person could see no more than 1000 people in his entire life, and communicated with only a dozen fellow tribesmen. Today, we are forced to keep in mind information about a large number of acquaintances who may be offended if you do not greet them by name when you meet. The number of incoming information flows has increased significantly. For example, everyone we know constantly generates […]