Author: ProHoster

Microsoft adds FPS and achievements widgets to Xbox Game Bar on PC

Microsoft has made a number of changes to the PC version of the Xbox Game Bar. The developers added an in-game frame rate counter to the panel and allowed users to customize the overlay in more detail. Users can now adjust transparency and other appearance elements. The frame rate counter has been added to the rest of the system indicators that were previously available. The player can also enable or disable it […]

Smartphone Samsung Galaxy A51 appeared in the benchmark with an Exynos 9611 chip

Information has appeared in the Geekbench database about a new mid-level Samsung smartphone - a device coded SM-A515F. This device is expected to be released on the commercial market under the name Galaxy A51. The test data states that the smartphone will come with Android 10 operating system out of the box. The proprietary Exynos 9611 processor is used. It contains eight computing cores […]

Fear, pain and hate technical support

Habr is not a book of complaints. This article is about Nirsoft's free tools for Windows system administrators. When contacting technical support, people often feel stressed. Some people worry that they won't be able to explain the problem and will look stupid. Some people are overwhelmed with emotions and it is difficult to contain their indignation about the quality of the service - after all, there was nothing […]

The new Honor 20 Lite smartphone received a 48-megapixel camera and an in-screen fingerprint scanner

The new Honor 20 Lite (Youth Edition) smartphone debuted, equipped with a 6,3-inch Full HD+ display with a resolution of 2400 × 1080 pixels. There is a small cutout at the top of the screen: a 16-megapixel selfie camera with artificial intelligence functions is installed here. A fingerprint scanner is integrated directly into the display area. The rear camera has a three-module configuration. The main unit contains a 48-megapixel sensor. It is complemented by sensors with 8 […]

DevOps and Chaos: software delivery in a decentralized world

The founder and director of Otomato Software, one of the initiators and instructors of the first DevOps certification in Israel, Anton Weiss, spoke at last year’s DevOpsDays Moscow about chaos theory and the main principles of chaos engineering, and also explained how the ideal DevOps organization of the future works. We have prepared a text version of the report. Good morning! DevOpsDays in Moscow for the second year in a row, this is my second time at this […]

Semantic browser or life without websites

I expressed the idea of ​​the inevitability of the transition of the global network from a site-centric structure to a user-centric one back in 2012 (Philosophy of Evolution and the Evolution of the Internet or WEB 3.0 in abbreviated form. From site-centrism to user-centrism). This year I tried to develop the theme of the new Internet in the text WEB 3.0 - the second approach to the projectile. Now I’m posting the second part of the article [...]

What's new in Zabbix 4.4

The Zabbix team is pleased to announce the release of Zabbix 4.4. The latest version comes with a new Zabbix agent written in Go, sets standards for Zabbix templates and provides advanced visualization capabilities. Let's take a look at the most important features included in Zabbix 4.4. Next generation Zabbix agent Zabbix 4.4 introduces a new agent type, zabbix_agent2, which offers a wide range of new […]

"TechnoText", episode II. We tell how the authors of Habr live and work on articles

We invite habra authors to participate in the competition. The most important thing in Habr is its readers, who are also authors. Without them, Habr would not exist. Therefore, we are always interested in how they are doing. On the eve of the second TechnoText, we decided to talk with the winners of the last competition and a top habraauthor about their difficult life as a writer. We hope their answers will help someone […]

Two "Comrades", or Phlogiston of the Civil War

Above the fat man on the left - who stands next to Simonov and one across from Mikhalkov - Soviet writers constantly made fun of him. Mainly because of his resemblance to Khrushchev. Daniil Granin recalled this in his memoirs about him (the fat man’s name, by the way, was Alexander Prokofiev): “At a meeting of Soviet writers with N. S. Khrushchev, the poet S. V. Smirnov said: “You [...]

Open meetings with Petr Zaitsev (CEO, Percona) will be held in Ryazan and Nizhny Novgorod on November 5 and 9

Percona will organize two open events in Russia in early November. On November 5 and 9, meetings will be held in Ryazan and Nizhny Novgorod with Peter Zaitsev, CEO of Percona, co-author of the book “MySQL to the Maximum”, former head of the performance optimization group at MySQL AB. The program of meetings in both cities is the same. Peter's reports: - “What [...]

The personal hell of the writer Fraerman, or the Tale of first love

As a child, I was probably an anti-Semite. And all because of him. Here he is. He always annoyed me. I simply adored Paustovsky’s magnificent series of stories about a thief cat, a rubber boat, etc. And only he spoiled everything. For a long time I could not understand why Paustovsky was hanging out with this Fraerman? Some cartoonish Jew with a stupid name […]

WEB 3.0 - the second approach to the projectile

First, a little history. Web 1.0 is a network for accessing content that was posted on sites by their owners. Static html pages, read-only access to information, the main joy is hyperlinks leading to the pages of this and other sites. The typical format of a site is an information resource. The era of transferring offline content to the network: digitizing books, scanning pictures (digital cameras were […]