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E-books and their formats: DjVu - its history, pros, cons and features

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In the early 70s, American writer Michael Hart managed to gain unlimited access to a Xerox Sigma 5 computer installed at the University of Illinois. To make good use of the machine's resources, he decided to create the first electronic book, reprinting the US Declaration of Independence. Today, digital literature has become widespread, largely thanks to the development of portable devices (smartphones, e-readers, laptops). This […]

E-books and their formats: talking about EPUB - its history, pros and cons

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Earlier in the blog we wrote about how the DjVu and FB2 e-book formats appeared. The topic of today's article is EPUB. Image: Nathan Oakley / CC BY History of the format In the 90s, the e-book market was dominated by proprietary solutions. And many e-reader manufacturers had their own format. For example, NuvoMedia used files with the .rb extension. This […]

5 Great Ways to Animate React Apps in 2019

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Animation in React applications is a popular and discussed topic. The fact is that there are a lot of ways to create it. Some developers use CSS by adding tags to HTML classes. An excellent method, worth using. But if you want to work with complex types of animations, it's worth taking the time to learn GreenSock, it's a popular and powerful platform. There is also […]

Stellarium 0.19.1

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On June 22, the first corrective release of branch 0.19 of the popular free planetarium Stellarium was released, visualizing a realistic night sky, as if you were looking at it with the naked eye, or through binoculars or a telescope. In total, the list of changes from the previous version occupies almost 50 positions. Source: linux.org.ru

Protection against side-channel attacks added to OpenSSH

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Damien Miller (djm@) has added an enhancement to OpenSSH that should help protect against various side channel attacks such as Specter, Meltdown, RowHammer and RAMBleed. The added protection is designed to prevent the recovery of a private key located in RAM using data leaks through third-party channels. The essence of the protection is that private keys, when not in use, […]

Samsung is designing a smartphone with a rear display

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Documentation describing a Samsung smartphone with a new design has been published on the websites of the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), according to the LetsGoDigital resource. We are talking about a device with two displays. In the front part there is a screen with narrow side frames. This panel does not have a cutout or hole for […]

The official image of Huawei Nova 5 Pro shows the smartphone in coral orange

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On June 21, the Chinese company Huawei will officially present new Nova series smartphones. Not long ago, the top model of the Nova 5 Pro series was spotted in the Geekbench database, and today Huawei released an official image in order to stir up interest in the device. The said image shows the Nova 5 Pro in Coral Orange color and also reveals that the smartphone […]

From UI-kit to design system

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The experience of the Ivy online cinema When at the beginning of 2017 we first thought about creating our own design-to-code delivery system, many people already talked about this and some even did it. However, little is known about the experience of building cross-platform design systems to this day, and clear and proven recipes that describe technologies and methods for such a transformation of the […]

Why is the Internet still online?

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The Internet seems to be a strong, independent and indestructible structure. In theory, the strength of the network is enough to survive a nuclear explosion. In reality, the Internet can drop one small router. All due to the fact that the Internet is a pile of contradictions, vulnerabilities, mistakes and videos about cats. The basis of the Internet - the BGP protocol - contains a lot of problems. It's amazing he's still breathing. In addition to errors on the Internet itself, it is also broken by everyone […]

Overconfident NAS

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The fairy tale was quickly told, but the deed was done for a long time. More than a year and a half ago, I wanted to build my own NAS, and the beginning, for collecting NAS, was putting things in order in the server room. When dismantling cables, cases, as well as moving a 24-inch lamp monitor from HP to a landfill, and other things, a cooler from Noctua was found. From which, through incredible efforts, […]

Dark theme coming to Gmail for Android

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This year, mobile operating system developers are making more and more changes to their solutions. Official dark themes will be available to owners of Android and iOS devices. It is worth noting that enabling night mode will affect the entire OS, and not individual sections or menus. Moreover, Google, Apple, as well as many third-party mobile content developers are actively […]

Video: BioShock, AC: Brotherhood and other games look new thanks to ray tracing

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Zetman's YouTube channel has posted several videos showcasing Alien: Isolation, Bioshock Remastered, Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood, Nier: Automata and Dragon Age Origins using graphics programmer Pascal Gilcher's Reshade mod. This mod allows you to add real-time ray tracing effects to older games using post-processing. It is worth understanding that this [...]

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