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, […]
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 […]
The developers from The Farm 51 studio have announced a free Steam weekend in the multiplayer military first-person shooter World War 3. The promotion starts on June 20 and ends on June 23. According to the authors, the event is timed to coincide with the update of the Polyarny map, which “has been seriously optimized and redesigned to provide players with the best military experience.” As usual, you will receive the full version of the game […]
Alan Kay recommends this book. He often says the phrase "The computer revolution has not happened yet." But the computer revolution has begun. More precisely, it was started. It was started by certain people, with certain values, and they had a vision, ideas, a plan. Based on what premises did the revolutionaries create their plan? For what reasons? Where did they plan to lead humanity? At what stage are we […]
Prologue Boys from Missouri Joseph Carl Robert Licklider made a strong impression on people. Even in his early years, before he got involved with computers, he had a way of making anything clear to people. “Lick was perhaps the most intuitive genius I have ever known,” William McGill later declared in an interview that was […]
They call me the King. If you use the labels you are used to, then I am a consultant. More precisely, the owner of a new type of consulting company. I came up with a scheme in which my company is guaranteed to earn very decent money, while, oddly enough, benefiting the client. What do you think is the essence of my business scheme? You'll never guess. I sell factories their own programmers, and […]
A vulnerability CVE-2019-11707 was discovered in the Firefox browser, which, according to some reports, allows an attacker to remotely execute arbitrary code using JavaScript. Mozilla says the vulnerability is already being exploited by attackers. The problem lies in the implementation of the Array.pop method. Details have not yet been revealed. The vulnerability is fixed in Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1. Based on this, we can confidently say that all versions […]
The release of GNU nano 4.3 has been announced. Changes in the new version: The ability to read and write to the FIFO has been restored. Startup times are reduced by allowing full parsing to occur only when necessary. Accessing help (^G) when using the –operatingdir switch no longer causes a crash. Reading a large or slow file can now be stopped using […]
An automated medical center uses many different devices, the operation of which must be controlled by a medical information system (MIS), as well as devices that do not accept commands, but must transmit the results of their work to the MIS. However, all devices have different connection options (USB, RS-232, Ethernet, etc.) and ways to interact with them. It is almost impossible to support them all in MIS, [...]
