Author: ProHoster

You can now pin sites to the taskbar in the new Microsoft Edge

Microsoft has released a fresh update for Microsoft Edge Canary, which includes a new feature that allows you to pin websites to the taskbar. This feature was previously implemented in classic Microsoft Edge based on the EdgeHTML engine. Now it has been added to the Chromium build. This feature was introduced in Microsoft Edge Canary 77.0.197.0. To pin a site to the taskbar, you need to go [...]

Samsung will release not Intel processors, but something simpler

The assumptions of South Korean sources voiced the day before were refuted by colleagues from the Tom's Hardware website, who claim that Samsung will not produce 14 nm Rocket Lake processors ordered by Intel. Adapting design solutions to the specifics of Samsung's 14nm process technology in this case would require great expense and effort, rendering such production specialization meaningless. Instead, as Tom's Hardware explains […]

Support for 32-bit libraries in Ubuntu 19.10+ will be carried over from Ubuntu 18.04

Steve Langasek from Canonical announced his intention to provide users of future releases of Ubuntu with the ability to use libraries for the 32-bit x86 architecture by borrowing these libraries from Ubuntu 18.04. It is noted that support for i386 libraries will continue, but will be frozen at the Ubuntu 18.04 state. This way, Ubuntu 19.10 users will be able to install the libraries needed to run 32-bit […]

The source code for the V programming language is open

The compiler for the V language has been upgraded to open source. V is a statically typed machine-code language focused on solving the problems of simplifying development maintenance and providing very high compilation speed. The compiler code, libraries and related tools are open sourced under the MIT license. V's syntax is very similar to Go, borrowing some constructs […]

Valve is dropping support for Steam on Ubuntu 19.10 and newer versions

As you know, Ubuntu developers will soon stop creating 32-bit packages for the operating system. This will happen in the 19.10 release. However, at the same time, this approach will hit Steam and Wine within the distribution kit. One of the Valve employees reported that starting with this release, support for the game client will officially cease. The bottom line is that some games require […]

US robocall war - who's winning and why

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) continues to fine organizations for spam calls. Over the past few years, the total amount of fines has exceeded $200 million, but the violators have paid only $7. We are discussing why this happened and what the regulators are going to do. / Unsplash / Pavan Trikutam The scale of the problem Last year, there were 48 billion robo calls in the US. It's on […]

Choosing a video surveillance system: cloud vs local with the Internet

Video surveillance has become a commodity and has long been widely used in business and for personal purposes, however, customers often do not understand all the nuances of the industry, preferring to trust experts in installation organizations. The pain of the growing conflict between clients and specialists is manifested in the fact that the price of the solution has become the main criterion for choosing systems, and all other parameters have faded into the background, […]

Cable TV networks for the little ones. Part 10: Troubleshooting on the cable TV network

The final, most boring reference article. There is probably no point in reading it for general development, but when this happens, it will help you a lot. Contents of the series of articles Part 1: General architecture of a CATV network Part 2: Composition and shape of the signal Part 3: Analog component of the signal Part 4: Digital component of the signal Part 5: Coaxial distribution network Part 6: RF signal amplifiers […]

Digital events in Moscow from 24 to 30 June

A selection of events for the week. First sales abroad: hacks, cases and mistakes of founders June 25 (Tuesday) Myasnitskaya 13 page 18 Free On June 25, we’ll talk about how an IT startup can launch its first sales on the international market with minimal losses and attract investment abroad. Summer discussion about serious marketing in B2B June 25 (Tuesday) Zemlyanoy Val 8 rub. […]

Consequences of untimely removal of wisdom teeth

Hello again! Today I would like to write a mini post and answer the question - “Why remove wisdom teeth if they don’t bother you?”, and comment on the statement - “My relatives and friends, dad/mom/grandfather/granny/neighbor/cat had a tooth removed and that’s it went wrong. Absolutely everyone had complications and now there are no removals.” To begin with, I would like to say that complications [...]

Midnight Commander 4.8.23 file manager release

After six months of development, the console file manager Midnight Commander 4.8.23 has been released, distributed in source code under the GPLv3+ license. List of main changes: The deletion of large directories has been significantly accelerated (previously, recursive deletion of directories was significantly slower than “rm -rf” since each file was iterated and deleted separately); The layout of the dialog displayed when attempting to overwrite an existing file has been redesigned. Button […]