Author: ProHoster

NVIDIA accelerators will receive a direct channel of interaction with NVMe drives

NVIDIA has introduced GPUDirect Storage, a new capability that allows GPUs to interface directly with NVMe storage. The technology uses RDMA GPUDirect to transfer data to local GPU memory without the need to use the CPU and system memory. The move is part of the company's strategy to expand its reach into data analytics and machine learning applications. Previously, NVIDIA released […]

What is wrong with IT education in Russia

Hi all. Today I want to tell you what exactly is wrong with IT education in Russia and what, in my opinion, should be done, and I will also give advice to those who are just enrolling yes, I know that it is already a little late. Better late than never. At the same time, I’ll find out your opinion, and maybe I’ll learn something new for myself. Please immediately [...]

I wrote this article without ever looking at the keyboard

At the beginning of the year, I felt like I had hit a ceiling as an engineer. It seems like you read thick books, solve complex problems at work, speak at conferences. But that’s not the case. Therefore, I decided to return to the roots and, one by one, cover the skills that I once considered as a child to be basic for a programmer. First on the list was touch printing, which had long been [...]

DUMP Kazan - Tatarstan Developers Conference: CFP and tickets at the starting price

On November 8, Kazan will host the Tatarstan developer conference - DUMP What will happen: 4 streams: Backend, Frontend, DevOps, Management Master classes and discussions Speakers of top IT conferences: HolyJS, HighLoad, DevOops, PyCon Russia, etc. 400+ participants Entertainment from conference partners and after-party Conference reports are designed for middle/middle+ level of developers Applications for reports are accepted until September 15 Until 1 […]

The OpenBSD project begins publishing package updates to the stable branch

The publication of package updates for the stable branch of OpenBSD has been announced. Previously, when using the "-stable" branch, it was only possible to receive binary updates to the base system via syspatch. The packages were built once for the release branch and were no longer updated. Now it is planned to support three branches: “-release”: a frozen branch, packages from which are collected once for release and no longer […]

GCC will be removed from the FreeBSD core

The FreeBSD developers have presented a plan to remove GCC 4.2.1 from the FreeBSD base system source code. GCC components will be removed before the FreeBSD 13 branch is forked, which will only include the Clang compiler. GCC can, if desired, be delivered from ports that offer GCC 9, 7 and 8, as well as already deprecated GCC releases […]

Enthusiasts built the city of the future in No Man's Sky with the help of bugs

Since 2016, No Man's Sky has changed a lot and even regained the respect of the audience. But multiple updates to the project did not eliminate all the bugs, which fans took advantage of. Users ERBurroughs and JC Hysteria have built an entire futuristic city on one of the planets in No Man's Sky. The settlement looks amazing and conveys the spirit of cyberpunk. The buildings have an unusual design, many [...]

Fedora Developers Get Involved in Solving the Problem of Linux Hanging on Low RAM

Over the years, the Linux operating system has become no less high-quality and reliable than Windows and macOS. However, it still has a fundamental flaw associated with the inability to correctly process data when there is insufficient RAM. On systems with a limited amount of RAM, a situation is often observed where the OS freezes and does not respond to commands. However, you cannot [...]

Netflix has released a Russian-language teaser trailer for The Witcher

Online cinema Netflix has released a Russian-language teaser trailer for The Witcher. It was released almost a month after the English version of the video was shown. Previously, fans of the game franchise assumed that Vsevolod Kuznetsov, who became his voice in video games, would voice Geralt, but he denied his participation in the project. As DTF found out, the main character will speak in the voice of Sergei Ponomarev. The actor noted that he does not experience [...]

Borderlands 3 can't be preloaded on the Epic Games Store

Borderlands 3 won't be getting preload functionality on the Epic Games Store. Epic CEO Tim Sweeney announced this on Twitter. In response to a question from a fan, Sweeney said that the store already has a preload function, but it is only available for certain projects. He noted that he was not sure about the need to add it to “such […]

Overwatch has a new hero and role-playing in the main modes

After testing for several weeks, Overwatch offered two interesting additions on all platforms. The first is the new hero Sigma, who has become another “tank,” and the second is a role-playing game. As explained earlier, now in all matches in normal and ranked modes the team will be divided into three components: two “tanks”, two medics and […]