Yesterday, May 27, publisher Bandai Namco and studio Slightly Mad presented a gameplay trailer for Fast & Furious Crossroads, a race based on the Fast and Furious films. The video showed missions, battles with opponents and tracks, but users drew attention to another aspect. They noticed how outdated the graphics in the project looked and started joking about it. Per day […]
A new leak reports that the iPhone 12 series smartphones will be the last Apple phones with a Lightning connector. As a user under the pseudonym Fudge, who previously published high-quality renders of the iPhone 12, reports on his Twitter account, in 2021 the Californian tech giant will release smartphones that will use the new Smart Connector. In addition, the insider claims that Apple tested iPhone 12 series smartphones with […]
More recently, it became known that AMD is preparing to release updated versions of some of its Ryzen 3000 series processors. And now the first test results of representatives of the fresh Matisse Refresh family have appeared on the Web - the older Ryzen 9 3900XT, the average Ryzen 7 3800XT and the affordable Ryzen 5 3600XT. The source of the leak is the notorious Chinese forum Chiphell, which […]
AMD is making little effort to hide its intentions to launch Zen 3 (Vermeer) desktop processors this year. All other plans for the company's consumer-grade processors are obscure, but some online sources are already ready to look into 2022 to describe AMD processors of the corresponding period. Firstly, a popular […]
The Chrome OS 83 operating system was released, based on the Linux kernel, the upstart system manager, the ebuild / portage assembly toolkit, open components and the Chrome 83 web browser. The Chrome OS user environment is limited to a web browser, and web applications are used instead of standard programs, however, Chrome OS includes a full multi-window interface, desktop and taskbar. Build Chrome OS 83 […]
The release of the free implementation of the OpenGL API and Vulkan - Mesa 20.1.0 is presented. The first release of the Mesa 20.1.0 branch has an experimental status - after the final stabilization of the code, a stable version 20.1.1 will be released. Mesa 20.1 brings full OpenGL 4.6 support for Intel (i965, iris drivers) and AMD (radeonsi) GPUs, OpenGL 4.5 support for AMD (r600) GPUs and […]
The UDisks 2.9.0 package has been released, which includes a system background process, libraries and tools for accessing and managing disks, storage devices and related technologies. UDisks provides a D-Bus API for working with disk partitions, setting up MD RAID, working with block devices in a file (loop-mount), manipulating file systems, etc. Additionally, modules are supplied for monitoring […]
Another major version of the popular free sound editor has been released. And a quick fix to her. Made a number of changes to the interface and fixed bugs. New since 2.3.*: Moved the current time to a separate panel. You can move it anywhere and change the size (double by default). The time format is independent of the format in the selection bar. Audio tracks can show […]
On May 22, 2020, the popular cross-platform free BitTorrent client Transmission was released, which, in addition to the standard graphical interface, supports control via cli and the web and is characterized by speed and low resource consumption. The following changes are implemented in the new version: General changes on all platforms: RPC servers are now able to accept connections over IPv6 SSL certificate verification is enabled by default, […]
A new version of Ardour, a free digital recording station, has been released. The main changes since version 5.12 are mostly architectural and not always visible to the end user. In general, the application has become more convenient and stable than ever. Main innovations: End-to-end delay compensation. New high quality resampling engine for varispeed playback. Ability to monitor input and playback simultaneously (cue […]
Hello, I recently came across an interesting task to set up a storage for backup of a large number of block devices. Every week we back up all the virtual machines in our cloud, so you need to be able to serve thousands of backups and do it as quickly and efficiently as possible. Unfortunately, the standard RAID5, RAID6 configurations in this case will not suit us […]
Introduction “You have to run as fast as you can just to stay where you are, and to get somewhere you have to run at least twice as fast!” (c) Alice in Wonderland Some time ago I was asked to give a lecture to the analysts of our company on the topic of designing data models, because sitting on projects for a long time (sometimes for several years) we lose sight […]
