International Data Corporation (IDC) has seen significant growth in demand for tablet PCs globally after several quarters of declining sales. In the second quarter of this year, tablet shipments worldwide reached 38,6 million units. This is an 18,6% increase compared to the same period in 2019, when deliveries amounted to 32,6 million units. This sharp increase is explained […]
In the last century, Matrox was famous for its proprietary GPUs, but this decade has already changed the supplier of these critical components twice: first to AMD and then to NVIDIA. Introduced in January, the Matrox D1450 four-port HDMI boards are now available to order. Matrox's product specialization these days is limited to components for creating multi-monitor configurations […]
In June, the mid-range smartphone OPPO Reno 4 Pro debuted in the Chinese market with a Snapdragon 765G processor providing 5G support. Now an international version of this device has been announced, which has received a different computing platform. In particular, the Snapdragon 720G chip is used: this product contains eight Kryo 465 computing cores with a clock speed of up to 2,3 GHz and an Adreno 618 graphics accelerator. […]
After 7 months of active development, the release of the program for organizing and processing digital photos Darktable 3.0 is available. Darktable acts as a free alternative to Adobe Lightroom and specializes in non-destructive work with raw images. Darktable provides a large selection of modules for performing all kinds of photo processing operations, allows you to maintain a database of source photos, visually navigate through existing images and […]
The Wayland developers have announced the first release of a new package, wayland-utils, which will provide Wayland-related utilities, similar to how the wayland-protocols package provides additional protocols and extensions. Currently, only one utility is included, wayland-info, designed to display information about the Wayland protocols supported by the current composite server. The utility is a separate [...]
Two vulnerabilities have been identified in X.Org Server and libX11: CVE-2020-14347 - failure to initialize memory when allocating buffers for pixmaps using the AllocatePixmap() call can lead to the X client leaking memory contents from the heap when the X server is running with elevated privileges. This leak can be used to bypass Address Space Randomization (ASLR) technology. When combined with other vulnerabilities, the problem […]
TL;DR: An overview article - a guide to comparing environments for running applications in containers. The possibilities of Docker and other similar systems will be considered. A bit of history, where it all came from History The first well-known way to isolate an application is chroot. The system call of the same name provides a change to the root directory - thus providing access to the program that called it, access only to files inside this directory. But […]
Today is not just Friday, but the last Friday of July, which means that in the late afternoon, small groups in subnet masks with patch cord whips and cats under their arms will rush to pester citizens with questions: “Did you write on Powershell?”, “And you Did you pull the optics? and shout "For the LAN!". But this is in a parallel universe, and on the planet […]
So the last Friday of July has come - System Administrator Day. Of course, there is a small amount of sarcasm in the fact that it takes place on Friday - the day when, in the evening, all the funniest things like a server crash, mail crash, failure of the entire network, and so on mysteriously happen. Nevertheless, the holiday will be, despite the workload of the period of general udalenka, […]
The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Thursday gave Internet company Amazon permission to implement Project Kuiper, which will launch 3236 satellites into orbit to create a global satellite network to provide broadband Internet access to residents of remote regions of the Earth. With this, Amazon intends to join the race with SpaceX to become the first […]
Every year on the last Friday of July, the world celebrates International System Administrator Day - a professional holiday of all those on whom the reliable and uninterrupted operation of servers, corporate networks and workstations, multi-user computer systems, databases and other network services depends. This tradition was started by American IT specialist Ted Kekatos, who considered it unfair that […]
The moderator of the YouTube channel GTA Series Videos and a “former insider” under the pseudonym Yan2295 commented on recent rumors on his microblog about the upcoming update of GTA Online and the location of GTA VI. Let us remind you that the other day gaming portals drew attention to a publication three months ago from a Reddit user with the nickname markothemexicam, who called himself the roommate of a former Rockstar North programmer. According to markothemexicam, […]
