Huawei, Samsung and Qualcomm have already presented chipsets supporting 5G modems. Network sources say that MediaTek will soon follow suit. The Taiwanese company announced that a new single-chip system with 5G support will be presented in May 2019. This means that the manufacturer has only a few days left to present its development. […]
If you administer a virtual infrastructure based on VMware vSphere (or any other technology stack), you probably often hear complaints from users: “The virtual machine is slow!” In this series of articles I will analyze performance metrics and tell you what and why it slows down and how to make sure it doesn’t slow down. I will consider the following aspects of virtual machine performance: CPU, RAM, DISK, […]
In the near future, the Xbox Game Pass game library will be replenished with eight projects, some of which will appear on the service on release day. They will be the shooter Void Bastards and the space adventure Outer Wilds - some of the most interesting indie games of this year. Starting May 23, subscribers will be able to download Metal Gear Survive, a survival simulator and role-playing game with turn-based combat […]
An important day has come for Red Hat, the Russian open source community and everyone involved - Jim Whitehurst’s book “The Open Organization: Passion That Brings Fruit” has been published in Russian. She tells in detail and vividly how we at Red Hat give the best ideas and the most talented people the path, and also about how not to get lost in the chaos and […]
On May 16, after four years of development, a new stable version of OpenSCAD was released - 2019.05. OpenSCAD is a non-interactive 3D CAD, which is something like a 3D compiler that generates a model from a script in a special programming language. OpenSCAD is well suited for 3D printing, as well as for automatically generating a large number of similar models based on a given set of parameters. For full use it requires [...]
Codemasters has announced the development of a sequel to one of its most popular series, GRID. The new racing simulator will go on sale on September 13, 2019 on Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC. Although this will be the fourth part of the series, the authors abandoned the number in the title, calling the simulator simply GRID. “Expect intense racing competitions on the city streets […]
A new series of vulnerabilities have been discovered in Windows that allow access to the system. A user under the pseudonym SandBoxEscaper presented exploits for three flaws at once. The first allows you to increase user privileges in the system using the task scheduler. For an authorized user, it is possible to increase rights to system rights. The second flaw affects the Windows error reporting service. This allows attackers to use it […]
Disclaimer: This post is for entertainment purposes only. The specific density of useful information in it is small. It was written for myself. Lyrical introduction The file dump in our organization runs on a VMware ESXi 6 virtual machine running Windows Server 2016. And this is not just a dump. This is a file exchange server between structural divisions: there is collaboration, and project documentation, and […]
In the comments to a recent article, you asked a lot of questions about the new version of our Windows Terminal. Today we will try to answer some of them. Below the cut are some of the most frequently asked questions we've heard (and still hear), as well as the official answers, including replacements for PowerShell and how to […]
After 11 months of development, a new stable branch of the Perl programming language was released - 5.30. In preparing the new release, about 620 thousand lines of code were changed, the changes affected 1300 files, and 58 developers took part in the development. Branch 5.30 was released in accordance with the fixed development schedule approved six years ago, which implies the release of new stable branches every […]
The Python Project has published a proposal (PEP 594) for a major cleanup of the standard library. Both clearly outdated and highly specialized capabilities and components that have architectural problems and cannot be unified for all platforms are offered for removal from the Python standard library. For example, it is proposed to exclude modules such as crypt from the standard library (not available for Windows […]
According to Deadline, Constantin Film has received the film rights to the Just Cause video game series. The creator and screenwriter of the John Wick trilogy, Derek Kolstad, will be responsible for the plot of the film. The deal was concluded with Avalanche Studios and Square Enix, and the parties hope that the deal will not be limited to one film. The main character will again be the permanent Rico Rodriguez, […]
