Weeks after reopening a number of Apple retail stores in the United States that had been closed since March due to the coronavirus pandemic, the company closed most of them again over the weekend. As reported by 9to5Mac, Apple has temporarily closed most of its retail stores in the United States due to concerns for the safety of its employees and customers as protests sparked by the death of an African-American […]
The campaign, which was launched about two years ago by the developers of the Atari VCS retro console on the Indiegogo crowdfunding platform, has reached the home stretch. It was announced that the first customers to pre-order will receive the console by the middle of this month. According to available data, the first 500 copies of Atari VCS will roll off the assembly line by mid-June and go to customers. There was a delay in production […]
The developers of the Linux Mint distribution have announced that the upcoming release of Linux Mint 20 will not ship snap packages and snapd. Moreover, automatic installation of snapd along with other packages installed via APT will be prohibited. If desired, the user will be able to install snapd manually, but adding it with other packages without the user's knowledge will be prohibited. The crux of the problem is that [...]
Introduced the release of Devuan 3.0 "Beowulf", a fork of Debian GNU/Linux that ships without the systemd system manager. The new branch is notable for its transition to the Debian 10 “Buster” package base. Live assemblies and installation iso images for AMD64, i386 and ARM architectures (armel, armhf and arm64) have been prepared for download. Devuan-specific packages can be downloaded from the packages.devuan.org repository. Within the framework of the project, branches [...]
The Wine Launcher project develops a container for Windows games based on Wine. Among the features that stand out are the modern style of the launcher, isolation and independence from the system, as well as the provision of separate Wine and Prefix for each game, which ensures that the game will not break when updating Wine on the system and will always work. Features: Separate Wine and Prefix for each […]
Distance learning is now becoming more popular for all of us for obvious reasons. And if many readers of Habr know about various kinds of courses in digital specialties - software development, design, product management, etc., then the situation is a little different with lessons for the younger generation. There are many services for online lessons, but what to choose? In February, I was evaluating different platforms, and […]
Kubernetes is a great tool for running Docker containers in a clustered production environment. However, there are tasks that Kubernetes cannot solve. With frequent production deployments, we need a fully automated Blue/Green deployment to avoid downtime in this process, which also needs to process external HTTP requests and perform SSL offloading. This requires integration […]
When creating my own backup management technique on many MS-SQL servers, I spent a lot of time studying the mechanism for passing values \u0b\uXNUMXbto powershell during remote calls, so I am writing a memo to myself, in case it is useful to someone else. So let's take the simplest script first and run it locally: $exitcode = $args[XNUMX] Write-Host 'Out to host.' Write-Output 'Out to […]
Not long ago, OtherSide Entertainment announced that Tencent would be taking the "System Shock franchise into the future." The wording apparently means that the Chinese conglomerate has become the publisher of the third part, since Nightdive Studios owns the rights to the brand. As for OtherSide, the studio is still involved in developing a sequel to the series. The team spoke about this in a new statement. […]
Riot Games has released a cinematic trailer for “Duelists” and a gameplay video for “Episode 1: Ignition” in honor of the release of the online shareware shooter Valorant on PC. Let us remind you that it became available in Russia today at 8:00 Moscow time. In the cinematic trailer for The Duelists, Phoenix and Jett attempt to grab an important bag and engage each other in battle with unique abilities. […]
Creative Assembly studio has announced release details for Total War Saga: Troy. The strategy will be released on the Epic Games Store on August 13 and will become an annual store exclusive. This is reported on the game website. On the first day, platform users will be able to receive the project for free, and a year later it will be released on Steam. The developers emphasized that the decision to make the release exclusive to EGS was […]
For those who are still running Windows 7 and don't want to upgrade to Windows 10, it might be worth taking a closer look at the open source operating system camp. After all, the other day there was a release of the Linux Lite 5.0 distribution kit, designed to work with outdated equipment and also intended to introduce Windows users to Linux. Linux Lite 5.0 […]
