Author: ProHoster

Baidu joins initiative to protect Linux from patent claims

The Chinese company Baidu, one of the world's largest manufacturers of Internet services (the Baidu search engine ranks 6th in the Alexa ranking) and products related to artificial intelligence, became one of the participants in the Open Invention Network (OIN), which protects the Linux ecosystem from patents. claims. OIN participants agree not to assert patent claims and will freely permit the use of patented technologies in […]

Pitfalls when switching to VDI: what to test in advance so that it is not excruciatingly painful

Ever wondered what a scanner does with a VDI station? At first, everything looks good: it is forwarded as a normal USB device and is "transparently" visible from the virtual machine. Then the user gives a command to scan, and everything goes to hell. In the best case - the scanner driver, worse - in a couple of minutes the scanner software, then it can affect other users of the cluster. Why? Because […]

Hide RDP and quickly help users

Dear reader! We can't wait to introduce you to one unique and useful feature of our IT infrastructure management system, which makes hardworking users happy, and lazy and truant miserable. For details, we invite under cat. We have already talked in detail about the development features (1, 2), the main functionality of Veliam and separately about monitoring in previous articles, […]

About how many wonderful discoveries Parallels is preparing for us here

About how many wonderful discoveries Parallels is preparing for us here And Citrix, the careless ignorer, will disappear for a moment all of a sudden. This article is a logical continuation of "Comparison of VDI and VPN" and is dedicated to my deeper acquaintance with Parallels companies, primarily with their Parallels RAS product. I recommend reading the previous article to fully understand my position. It is possible that some read […]

Xiaomi Xiaoxun Children's Drawing Tablet has a diagonal of 16 inches

The Xiaomi Youpin crowdfunding platform presents the Xiaoxun Color LCD Tablet, designed for creating drawings and notes. The gadget is available for order at an estimated price of $30. The device is aimed primarily at children, but in fact it may also be of interest to users whose work involves creativity and drawing. These could be, for example, artists or [...]

Shotcut 20.06 Video Editor Release

The release of the Shotcut 20.06 video editor has been published, which is developed by the author of the MLT project and uses this framework to organize video editing. Support for video and audio formats is implemented through FFmpeg. It is possible to use plugins with the implementation of video and audio effects compatible with Frei0r and LADSPA. Among the features of Shotcut, one can note the possibility of multi-track editing with the layout of video from fragments in […]

Release of Tails 4.8 distribution and Tor Browser 9.5.1

A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 4.8 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in the user data saving mode between launches, […]

Frida Dynamic Application Tracing Framework Release 12.10

The release of the dynamic tracing and application analysis platform Frida 12.10 is presented, which can be considered as an analogue of Greasemonkey for native programs, allowing you to control the operation of the program during its execution in the same way that Greasemonkey makes it possible to control the processing of web pages. Program tracing is supported on Linux, Windows, macOS, Android, iOS and QNX platforms. The source code for all project components is distributed under free […]

CudaText editor release 1.106.0

CudaText is a free, cross-platform code editor written in Lazarus. The editor supports Python extensions, and has several features borrowed from Sublime Text, although Goto Anything is missing. On the project's Wiki page https://wiki.freepascal.org/CudaText#Advantages_over_Sublime_Text_3 the author lists the advantages over Sublime Text. The editor is suitable for advanced users and programmers (more than 200 syntactic lexers are available). Limited IDE features are available […]

Comparison of VDI and VPN - parallel reality of Parallels?

In this article, I will try to compare two completely different VDI technologies with VPN. I have no doubt that in connection with the pandemic that unexpectedly fell on all of us in March of this year, namely the forced work from home, you and your company have long made your choice on how to optimally provide comfortable conditions for […]