When you want to submit your research paper to a journal. You must select a target journal for your field of study and the journal must be indexed in any of the major indexing databases such as ISI, Scopus, SCI, SCI-E or ESCI. But identifying a target journal with a good citation record is not so easy. In this article, the publishing house […]
With the latest patch, Zimbra Collaboration Suite Open-Source Edition 8.8.15 LTS has added full support for the long-term release of the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS operating system. Thanks to this, system administrators can create server infrastructures with Zimbra OSE that will be supported and receive security updates until the end of 2022. The opportunity to implement a collaboration system at your enterprise that will […]
In a new report released last week, analytics firm Edison Trends showed the results of a sample of "anonymous and aggregated electronic cash receipts from millions of consumers in the United States" to assess sales trends for the most popular online games, mostly in the battle royale genre. According to the analysis, Fortnite sales have declined significantly (52%) since the second quarter of 2018. PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, with […]
This complements the topic of the “Golden Ratio” in economics - what is it?”, raised in the previous publication. Let us approach the problem of preferential distribution of resources from an angle that has not yet been touched upon. Let's take the simplest model of event generation: tossing a coin and the probability of getting heads or tails. At the same time, it is postulated that: The loss of “heads” or “tails” with each individual throw is equally probable – 50 […]
We received a detailed review from one of our OS users that we would like to share with you. Astra Linux is a Debian derivative that was created as part of the Russian initiative to switch to open source software. There are several versions of Astra Linux, one of which is intended for general, everyday use - Astra Linux "Eagle" Common Edition. Russian operating system for everyone - [...]
NASA's Curiosity rover, while exploring Gale Crater, a vast dry ancient lake bed with a hill in the center, discovered sediments containing sulfate salts in its soil. The presence of such salts indicates that there were once salt lakes here. Sulfate salts have been found in sedimentary rocks formed between 3,3 and 3,7 billion years ago. Curiosity analyzed other […]
Richard Stallman's response to the GNU Project Joint Statement. As the director of GNU, I would like to assure the community that there will be no radical changes to the GNU Project, its goals, principles and policies. I would like to make consistent changes in decision-making processes because I won't be here forever and we need to prepare others to make decisions […]
Sometime in 2014, in the BSD 3 source tree dumps, I found a file /etc/passwd with the passwords of all the veterans such as Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, Brian W. Kernighan, Steve Bourne and Bill Joy. These hashes used the DES-based crypt(3) algorithm - known to be weak (and with a maximum password length of 8 characters). So I thought that […]
Analysts from Digitimes Research believe that global shipments of tablet computers will decline sharply this year amid declining demand for branded and educational devices in this category. According to experts, by the end of next year the total number of tablet computers supplied to the world market will not exceed 130 million units. In the future, supplies will be reduced by 2–3 […]
The Gentoo Linux distribution is 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the gentoo.org domain and began developing a new distribution, into which, together with Bob Mutch, he tried to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project, combining them with the Enoch Linux distribution that had been developing for about a year , in which experiments were conducted on building a distribution compiled from […]
Having come across a video on one of the information portals with the approximate title “The speed of Internet access in Madagascar is higher than in France, Canada and the UK,” I was sincerely surprised. One has only to recall that the island state of Madagascar, unlike the above-mentioned northern countries, is geographically located on the very outskirts of the not very prosperous continent - Africa. IN […]
Acer presented the ConceptD 7 laptop in Russia, designed for specialists in the field of 3D graphics, design and photography. The new product is equipped with a 15,6-inch IPS screen with UHD 4K resolution (3840 × 2160 pixels), with factory color calibration (Delta E<2) and 100% coverage of the Adobe RGB color space. The Pantone Validated Grade certificate guarantees high-quality color rendering of the image. In the maximum configuration, the laptop […]
