Quorum is an Ethereum-based blockchain developed by JPMorgan and most recently the first distributed ledger platform offered by Microsoft Azure. Quorum supports private and public transactions and has many commercial use cases. In this article, we will analyze one of these scenarios - deploying a distributed ledger network between a supermarket and a warehouse owner to provide up-to-date […]
But what is strange, what is most incomprehensible of all, is how authors can take such plots, I confess, this is completely incomprehensible, that’s for sure ... no, no, I don’t understand at all. NV Gogol By the will of fate, I became a participant in the grandiose LANIT project - the modernization of the meteorological network of Roshydromet. Virtually nowhere in the civilized world do observers rush around the site to take […]
Bitch is back (Sir Elton John) Friends, as I promised, I am back with another story about our participation in the next round of the modernization of the Roshydromet weather network. You can read about the first part of our adventures here. Well, now - the long-awaited sequel. In short, LANIT specialists delivered and installed 28 automated weather complexes (AMK), 73 automatic weather stations (AMS), 3 […]
Earlier this month, information appeared that the closed beta version of the Telegram messenger for the iOS mobile platform was testing a chat function with people nearby. Now network sources report that Telegram developers are finishing testing the new feature and it will soon become available to users of the standard version of the popular messenger. In addition to being able to write to people […]
The most ardent opponent of technology companies in the United States has become the youngest member of the Republican Party in the history of American politics, Senator from Missouri Joshua David Hawley. He became a senator at the age of 39. Obviously, he understands the issue and knows how modern technologies infringe on citizens and society. Hawley's new project was a bill to end support for the […]
The name Counter-Strike is probably known to anyone who has any interest in games. It is curious that the release of the first version in the form of Counter-Strike 1.0 Beta, which was a custom modification for the original Half-Life, took place exactly two decades ago. Surely many people feel older now. The ideological masterminds and first developers of Counter-Strike were Minh Lê, also known under the pseudonym Gooseman, […]
The Overwatch developers are trying to develop the universe of their competitive action game by releasing short cartoons, comics, creating thematic levels and various seasonal tasks. They recently presented a new story, “Your Trail,” dedicated to one of the new heroes, Baptiste. Blizzard's Alyssa Wong spent a lot of time on the story, and the team had fun working on it. According to the plot, after leaving the “Claw”, Jean-Baptiste […]
GIGABYTE has announced Aorus NVMe Gen4 SSDs, designed for use in gaming-grade desktop computers. The basis is 3D TLC Toshiba BiCS4 flash memory microchips: the technology provides for storing three bits of information in one cell. The devices are made in the M.2 2280 form factor. The PCI Express 4.0 x4 interface (NVMe 1.3 specification) is used, which ensures high performance. In particular, the stated [...]
On June 18, the control panel for VPS/VDS servers HestiaCP 1.00.0-190618 was released. This panel is an improved fork of VestaCP and is developed only for Debian-based distributions Debian 8, 9 Ubuntu 16.04 18.04 LTS. Just like the parent project, it is named after the goddess of the hearth Hestia, only the ancient Greek, not the Roman. Among the advantages of our project over VestaCP, the following can be noted: Numerous […]
A release of the package management toolkit Apt 1.9 (Advanced Package Tool), developed by the Debian project, has been prepared. In addition to Debian and its derivative distributions, Apt is also used in some distributions based on the rpm package manager, such as PCLinuxOS and ALT Linux. The new release will soon be integrated into the Debian Unstable branch and into the Ubuntu 19.10 package base. […]
New models of Lenovo's ThinkPad P series laptops will optionally come with Ubuntu pre-installed. The official press release does not say a word about Linux; Ubuntu 18.04 appeared in the list of possible systems for pre-installation on the specifications page for new laptops. It also announced certification for use on Red Hat Enterprise Linux devices. An optional Ubuntu preinstallation is available […]
The release of the video editor Shotcut 19.06 has been prepared, which is developed by the author of the MLT project and uses this framework to organize video editing. Support for video and audio formats is implemented through FFmpeg. It is possible to use plugins with the implementation of video and audio effects compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA. Among the features of Shotcut, we can note the possibility of multi-track editing with video composition from fragments in different […]
