In the experimental branch of the Xfce 4.15 desktop currently in development, which will form the basis for the stable release 4.16, the interface has been translated to use the GtkHeaderBar widget, enabling client-side decoration (CSD), where the title and window frames are rendered by the application itself rather than the window manager. The use of CSD has drawn parallels with GNOME […]
The Khronos Consortium, which is responsible for developing graphics standards, has published the Vulkan 1.2 specification, defining the API for accessing the graphics and computational capabilities of GPUs. The new specification incorporates corrections and expansions accumulated over the past two years. Drivers supporting the new version of Vulkan have already been released by companies such as Intel, AMD, ARM, Imagination Technologies, and NVIDIA. Vulkan 1.2 support has been proposed in Mesa for […]
August 2005 Thirty years ago, you had to climb the corporate ladder. Now that's no longer the rule. Our generation wants to earn money in cutting-edge positions. Instead of developing a product for some large company while waiting for a job guarantee, we are creating products in startups and selling them to large companies. At least […]
February 2009 Hacker News celebrated its second anniversary last week. It was originally intended as a parallel project — an app for refining Arc and a place for current and future Y Combinator founders to share news. It grew larger and required more time than I expected, but I don’t regret it because I learned a lot while working […]
Readers are invited to familiarize themselves with the principles of building a fault-tolerant infrastructure for a small enterprise within a single data center, which will be discussed in detail in a series of articles. Introduction Under a Data Center (DC), it can be understood: a dedicated rack in its own 'server room' on company premises, meeting minimum requirements for power supply and equipment cooling, and also having access to […]
Hello everyone. We are actively getting to work and already preparing many powerful launches in January. Among other things, we are announcing the enrollment for a new cohort of the popular ‘Linux Administrator’ course. In anticipation of the launch, we traditionally share a translation of useful material. File permissions provide a secure alternative to SUID executable files, but they may seem a bit confusing at first glance. We all know that […]
Hello! On Thursday, January 23, we will hold our first meetup about Apache Kafka. We will discuss integration, source connectors, and launching scalable applications in Kubernetes. Engineers from Booking.com, Confluent, and Avito will give presentations. We’ll meet at 6:00 PM. Register yourself and invite your colleagues. Below are the announcements of the talks, registration link, and video livestream of the meetup. Presentations Connectors: Why Are There So Many of You — Anatoly […]
The premiere of the second season of the series 'The Mandalorian' from Disney+ is scheduled for the end of this year. Already, rumors are circulating that a popular character from 'Star Wars', who first appeared in a game created under the new canon of the popular universe, may make an appearance. In one of the Twitter messages, a fan asked actress Janina Gavankar if she plans to […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for its virtualization system VirtualBox 6.1.2, which addresses 16 issues. Concurrently, corrective updates for VirtualBox 6.0.16 and 5.2.36 have also been released. The main changes in version 6.1.2: 18 vulnerabilities were fixed, 6 of which have a high severity level (CVSS Score 8.2 and 7.5). Details are not disclosed, but judging by the CVSS level, some issues may allow […]
I have several topics in store that I could write about endlessly. One of them is 'idols'. Of course, this is not a list of the most respected people in the world. I think that such a list would be difficult for anyone to compile, even with a strong desire to do so. For instance, Einstein is not on my list, but he certainly deserves […]
Vasya Pupkin is currently writing: expressing his stream of thoughts in a notebook. But Vasya encountered a problem: the page has ended. And it happened on the right side of the spread, which is very inconvenient. This means that if Vasya needs to write the next batch of his thoughts while having the previous step in front of him, he will have to scroll the sheet of paper […]
Unfortunately, this term does not have a good English equivalent. Wikipedia translates it as 'multitenancy'. Sometimes it is referred to as 'multiple ownership'. These terms can be somewhat misleading, as the subject is not fundamentally related to rental or ownership. It is primarily a matter of software architecture and the organization of its operation. The latter is equally important. We began […]