TCL, as part of the IFA 2020 electronics exhibition, which takes place from September 3 to 5 in Berlin (the capital of Germany), announced tablet computers 10 Tabmax and 10 Tabmid, which will go on sale in the fourth quarter of this year. The gadgets received a display with NxtVision technology, which provides high brightness and contrast, as well as excellent color rendition when viewing […]
The international payment system Visa has launched payment for purchases using voice. This service is implemented using the Alice voice assistant from Yandex and is already available in 32 cafes and restaurants in the capital. Bartello, a food and drink ordering service, took part in the implementation of the project. Using the service developed on the Yandex.Dialogues platform, you can contactlessly order food and drinks, […]
CD Projekt and CD Projekt RED have announced that an improved version of the action role-playing game The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt will be released on next-generation consoles - PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X. The next-generation version was developed taking into account the advantages of the upcoming consoles. The new edition will include a number of visual and technical improvements, including […]
The release of the Portage 3.0 package management system used in the Gentoo Linux distribution has been stabilized. The presented thread summarized the long-term work on the transition to Python 3 and the end of support for Python 2.7. In addition to the end of support for Python 2.7, another important change was the inclusion of optimizations that allowed for 50-60% faster calculations associated with determining dependencies. Interestingly, some developers suggested rewriting the code […]
The release of the Hotspot 1.3.0 application has been introduced, providing a graphical interface for visually examining reports in the process of profiling and performance analysis using the perf kernel subsystem. The program code is written in C++ using the Qt and KDE Frameworks 5 libraries, and is distributed under the GPL v2+ license. Hotspot can act as a transparent replacement for the "perf report" command when parsing files […]
As part of the Free Heroes of Might and Magic II (fheroes2) project, a group of enthusiasts tried to recreate the original game from scratch. This project existed for some time as an open source product, however, work on it was suspended many years ago. A year ago, a completely new team began to form, which continued the development of the project, with the goal of bringing it to its logical […]
I present to your attention the first public version of my development - a transparent HTTP/HTTPS proxy that allows you to redirect traffic to selected domains through the TOR server. The project was created to improve the comfort of access from the home local network to sites, which may be limited for various reasons. For example, homedepot.com is not geographically accessible. Features: Works exclusively in transparent mode, configuration is required only on the router; […]
CCZE is a utility for colorizing logs. The original project ceased development in 2003. In 2013, I compiled the program for personal use, but it turned out that it worked quite slowly due to a suboptimal algorithm. I fixed the most obvious performance issues and then used it successfully for 7 years, but was too lazy to release it. So, […]
Hello colleagues, welcome to the tutorial on migrating Check Point R77.30 to R80.10 databases. When using Check Point products, sooner or later the task of migrating existing rules and the object database arises for the following reasons: When buying a new device, you need to migrate the database from the old device to the new device (to the current version of GAIA OS or […]
The next release of the Gaia R80.40 operating system is approaching. A few weeks ago, the Early Access program was launched, through which you can get access to test the distribution. We, as usual, publish information about what will be new, as well as highlight the moments that are most interesting from our point of view. Looking ahead, I can say that the innovations are truly significant. Therefore, it is worth preparing for [...]
How about we break something? And then we build and build, repair and repair. Boredom is deadly. Let's break it so that nothing happens to us for it - not only will we be praised for this disgrace. And then we’ll build everything again - so much so that it will be an order of magnitude better, more fault-tolerant and faster. And we break again. […]
Bethesda has released updates for the first two DOOM titles on Steam. Now service users will be able to run modernized versions on the Unity engine, which were previously only available through the Bethesda launcher and on mobile platforms. Despite the update, players will be able to switch to the original DOS versions if they wish, but upon purchase the shooter will run on Unity by default. Besides, […]
