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 […]
A new version of the turn-based strategy Hedgewars has been released (similar games: Worms, Warmux, Artillery, Scorched Earth). In this release: Campaigns take into account the settings of the playing team. Single-player missions can now be completed by any team with progress saved. The sizes of hand-drawn maps can be adjusted using the slider. Quick game mode provides a greater range of parameters. The bee can be used as a secondary weapon. […]
Among those reading this text, of course, there are many specialists. And, of course, everyone is well versed in their fields and has a good assessment of the prospects of various technologies and their development. At the same time, history (which “teaches that it teaches nothing”) knows many examples when experts confidently made various forecasts and missed oh-so-very much: “The phone has too many shortcomings for […]
After six months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.1, an open implementation of a client and server for working over the SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols, is presented. Special attention in the new release is the elimination of a vulnerability affecting ssh, sshd, ssh-add and ssh-keygen. The problem is present in the code for parsing private keys with the XMSS type and allows an attacker to trigger an integer overflow. The vulnerability is marked as exploitable, [...]
For top managers of the largest American supermarket chain, the introduction of the Auto-C automatic floor cleaner was seen as a logical development in retail sales. Two years ago they allocated several hundred million for it. Of course: such an assistant can eliminate human error, reduce costs, increase the speed/quality of cleaning and, in the future, lead a mini-revolution in American super stores. But among the workers at Walmart No. 937 in […]
The release of the Meson 0.52 build system has been published, which is used to build projects such as X.Org Server, Mesa, Lighttpd, systemd, GStreamer, Wayland, GNOME and GTK+. Meson's code is written in Python and is licensed under the Apache 2.0 license. The key goal of Meson development is to provide high speed of the assembly process combined with convenience and ease of use. Instead of the make utility [...]
RunaWFE Free is a free Russian system for managing business processes and administrative regulations. Written in Java, distributed under the LGPL open license. RunaWFE Free uses both its own solutions and some ideas from the JBoss jBPM and Activiti projects, and contains a large number of components whose task is to provide a convenient experience for the end user. Changes after version 4.3.0: Added global roles. Data sources have been added. […]
DrakonHub, an online editor of diagrams, mind maps and flowcharts in the DRAGON language, is open source. The code is open as public domain (Public Domain). The application is written in the DRAGON-JavaScript and DRAGON-Lua languages in the DRAKON Editor environment (most JavaScript and Lua files are generated from scripts in the DRAGON language). Let us recall that DRAGON is a simple visual language for describing algorithms and processes, optimized for […]
On June 3, in the openSUSE mailing list, a certain Stasiek Michalski began discussing the possibility of changing the logo and name of the project. Among the reasons he cited were: Logo: Similarity to the old version of the SUSE logo, which can be confusing. Also mentioned is the need to enter into an agreement between the future openSUSE Foundation and SUSE for the right to use the logo. The colors of the current logo are too bright and light […]
Microsoft and Xbox corporate vice president Mike Ybarra announced that the latter is leaving the corporation after 20 years of service. "After 20 years at Microsoft, it's time for my next adventure," Ibarra tweeted. “It's been a great ride with Xbox and the future is bright.” Thank you to everyone on the Xbox team, I'm incredibly proud to […]
Tuukka Turunen, Qt Development Director, announced that the license of some Qt modules has changed from LGPLv3/Commercial to GPLv3/Commercial. By the time Qt 5.14 is released, the license will change for the Qt Wayland Compositor, Qt Application Manager and Qt PDF modules. This means that to circumvent the GPL restrictions you will need to purchase a commercial license. Since January 2016, most additional […]
