Author: ProHoster

OpenIndiana 2019.04 and OmniOS CE r151030 continuing development of OpenSolaris

The release of the free distribution kit OpenIndiana 2019.04 is available, which replaced the binary distribution kit OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides the user with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The actual development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which develops the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, as well as a basic set of user system utilities […]

Toyota and Panasonic will collaborate on connected homes

Toyota Motor Corp and Panasonic Corp have announced plans to form a joint venture to develop connected services for use in homes and urban development. The joint venture will further strengthen the partnership between the companies, which in January announced plans to establish a joint venture to produce electric vehicle batteries in 2020, bringing together extensive capabilities in […]

Intel will continue to use the 14nm process for desktop processors for a few more years

The current 14nm process technology will remain in service until at least 2021 Intel's presentations about the transition to new technologies mention any kind of processors and products, but not desktops Mass production of Intel products using 7nm technology will be deployed no earlier than 2022 All engineering resources will be moved from 14nm to 7nm, and 10nm will […]

ASUS ROG Strix LC 120/240: processor coolers with Aura Sync RGB backlight

ASUS has introduced liquid cooling systems (LCS) in the ROG family of gaming products called the Strix LC 120 and Strix LC 240 all-in-one class. The new products include a water block with dimensions of 80 × 80 × 45 mm and an aluminum radiator. The length of the connecting pipes is 380 mm. The ROG Strix LC 120 has a 150 x 121 x 27mm heatsink that […]

Go there - I don't know where

One day I found a form for a phone number behind the windshield of my wife’s car, which you can see in the photo above. A question popped into my head: why is there a form, but not a phone number? To which a brilliant answer was received: so that no one finds out my number. Hmmm... “My phone is zero-zero-zero, and don’t think that’s the password.” […]

Release of KWin-lowlatency 5.15.5

A new version of the KWin-lowlatency composite manager for KDE Plasma has been released, which is supplemented with patches to increase the responsiveness of the interface. Changes in version 5.15.5: Added new settings (System Settings > Display and Monitor > Compositor) that allow you to choose a balance between responsiveness and functionality. Support for NVIDIA graphics cards. Disabled support for linear animation (can be returned in the settings). Using glXWaitVideoSync instead of DRM VBlank. […]

From €30: pre-orders for the Volkswagen ID.000 electric car have begun

A few months before the official premiere, Volkswagen announced the start of accepting pre-orders for an all-electric compact car called the ID.3. It is reported that the electric car will be offered with a battery pack in three capacities - 45 kWh, 58 kWh and 77 kWh. The power reserve on one charge will be up to 330 km, 420 km and […]

Enermax TBRGB AD.: quiet fan with original lighting

Enermax has announced the TBRGB AD. cooling fan designed for use in gaming-grade desktop systems. The novelty is an improved version of the TB RGB model, which debuted at the end of 2017. From the progenitor, the device inherited the original multi-color backlight in the form of four rings. At the same time, from now on, you can control the operation of the backlight through a motherboard with support for ASUS Aura Sync, […]

Docker container for managing HP servers via ILO

You may probably wonder - why is Docker here? What's the problem with accessing the ILO web interface and setting up your server properly? So I thought when they gave me a couple of old unnecessary servers that I had to reinstall (what is called reprovision). The servers themselves are overseas, the only thing available is the web [...]

QEMU.js: now in a serious way and with WASM

Once upon a time, for fun, I decided to prove the reversibility of the process and learn how to generate JavaScript (or rather, Asm.js) from machine code. QEMU was chosen for the experiment, some time later an article was written on Habr. In the comments, I was advised to remake the project on WebAssembly, and somehow I didn’t want to abandon the almost completed project myself ... The work was going on, but […]

What is "digital transformation" and "digital assets"?

Today I want to talk about what a "number" is. Digital transformation, digital assets, digital product... These words are heard everywhere today. In Russia, national programs are launched and even the ministry is renamed, but reading articles and reports one comes across all round phrases and slurred definitions. And recently, at work, I was at a "high-level" meeting where representatives of a respected […]

New version of Astra Linux Common Edition 2.12.13

A new version of the Russian distribution kit Astra Linux Common Edition (CE), release "Eagle" has been released. Astra Linux CE is positioned by the developer as a general-purpose OS. The distribution is based on Debian, and Fly's own development environment is used as a graphical environment. In addition, there are many graphical utilities to simplify system and hardware setup. The distribution is commercial, but the CE edition is available […]