On January 14, 2020, Microsoft will end support for Windows 7 and the mobile OS Windows 10 Mobile (1709). On the same day, support for tests 3DMark 11, PCMark 7, Powermark, 3DMark Cloud Gate, and 3DMark Ice Storm from UL Benchmarks is also expected to cease. In addition to the lack of new patches, the test packages will also become free, just like others […]
Earlier this year, LCG Entertainment resurrected the Telltale Games brand. Now that the studio's first project, AdHoc — The Wolf Among Us 2, has been unveiled, more details about the revival of the renowned developers have come to light. In an interview with IGN, LCG Entertainment CEO Jaimie Ottilie explained the differences between the old and new Telltale. According to him […]
Reatom 1.0.0 has been released, a state manager for web applications that operate under the flux model. The project can serve as an alternative to Redux. The code is written in JavaScript and is distributed under the MIT license. The project author is Artyom Arutyunyan. Key features include: Continuity of the Redux ecosystem; Type safety and good type inference; Optimized subscriber notifications; Ease of testing; Lazy computations (only when subscribers are present); […]
An update to the Windows EducationPack 19.11 has been prepared, which includes 70 open educational and scientific applications for the Windows operating system, as well as programs for organizing, managing, and controlling the educational process. The pack may be useful for schools (including elementary classes), lyceums, and higher education institutions. The pack is offered for free download in the form of images of three DVD discs. The new release […]
Quantum computers and quantum computing are new buzzwords that have entered our information space alongside artificial intelligence, machine learning, and other high-tech terms. However, I still haven't been able to find material on the internet that puts together the puzzle in my head titled 'how quantum computers work.' Yes, there are many great works in […]
Today, solutions for testing and benchmarking blockchains are tailored for specific blockchains or their forks. However, there are also some more general solutions with varying functionalities: some are open-source projects, while others are offered as SaaS, but most are internal solutions created by the blockchain development team. Nevertheless, all of them address similar challenges. This […]
When developing a network infrastructure, typically either local computing or cloud solutions are considered. However, these two options and their combinations are limited. For instance, what to do if cloud computing cannot be abandoned, yet bandwidth is lacking or traffic is too expensive? Introduce an intermediary link that performs part of the computations at the edge of the local network or production process. This peripheral concept […]
Occasionally, the developer needs to pass a set of parameters or even an entire selection into a request. Sometimes, very strange solutions to this task arise. Let's approach it "from the opposite" and see how not to do it, why, and how it can be done better. Direct "insertion" of values into the body of the request usually looks something like this: query = 'SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE […]'
Gentoo developers are discussing the provision of universal packages with the Linux kernel that do not require manual configuration of parameters during compilation and are similar to the kernel packages provided in traditional binary distributions. An example of a problem that arises from the manual tweaking of kernel parameters practiced in Gentoo is the lack of a unified set of default options that guarantees functionality after an update (when manually configured, […
An update to the Solaris 11.4 OS, SRU 16 (Support Repository Update), has been released, introducing a series of further fixes and improvements for the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the suggested fixes from the update, simply run the command ‘pkg update’. In the new release: Oracle VM Server for SPARC has been updated to version 3.6.2. The add-vsan-dev command has been enhanced with support for migrating domains with guest […
Andrey Shitov, a renowned Perl developer, has decided to try as many programming languages as possible this year and share his experiences with readers. Programming languages are delightful! You fall in love with a language as soon as you write a few test programs. The more you study, the better you feel the language and the ideas embedded in its foundation. In this year's advent calendar (from December 1 to […]
The GOG and ScummVM teams are excited to present you with a special release — the first digital edition of Blade Runner and the adaptation of the legendary adventure game for modern PCs. In its time, Blade Runner was an absolute hit and changed the gaming industry. The game offered an unimaginable gameplay and mechanics for that era (1997), and sold over 800,000 copies. […]