Author: ProHoster

Microsoft introduced an updated package manager for Windows 10

Microsoft today announced the release of a new package manager for the Windows 10 operating system that will make it easier for developers to customize their workspace. In the past, Windows developers needed to manually download and install all the necessary programs and tools, but thanks to the Package Manager, this process has become much easier. The new version of Windows Package Manager will give developers the ability to customize their development environments using command […]

According to the canons of "South Park": a blogger pumped in WoW Classic to the maximum level on some boars

In 2006, an episode of the animated series “South Park” dedicated to World of Warcraft was released. He demonstrated how the main characters of the film, led by Cartman, leveled up to level 60 in the famous MMORPG, killing exclusively wild boars. The author of the YouTube channel DrFive decided to repeat this “feat” in WoW Classic and successfully completed the task. The classic version of World of Warcraft is best […]

Xiaomi spoke in detail about MIUI 12: Mi 9 smartphones will receive the first shell in June

In April, Xiaomi officially presented its new MIUI 12 shell in China, and now it has talked about it in more detail and published a launch schedule for the new mobile platform. MIUI 12 received new security features, an updated user interface design, carefully designed animation, simplified access to frequently used functions and a number of other innovations. The first wave of updates will take place in […]

Under the technological blockade, Huawei will not be able to count on SMIC

According to the new initiative of the American authorities, companies cooperating with Huawei have one hundred and twenty days to obtain a special license that allows them to continue this activity in the technological field. After this, it is expected that TSMC will not be able to supply Huawei with processors custom-made by its subsidiary HiSilicon. Naturally, while Huawei is trying to reassure customers with reports of the availability of significant stocks of components for basic […]

Dyson's stillborn electric car could be a technology donor

Some time ago, many companies tried to challenge Tesla by starting to develop their own electric vehicles. The British manufacturer of household appliances Dyson was among them. After spending £500m developing an electric car, the company ultimately refused to release it, but the project could be useful to competitors. From the idea of ​​mass production of an electric car coded N526, the British company […]

ReduxBuds wireless in-ear headphones promise up to 100 hours of battery life

An interesting new product has been presented on the Kickstarter collective funding platform - completely wireless in-immersive headphones called ReduxBuds. The in-ear modules are equipped with high-quality 7mm drivers. The design provides for a rather long “leg”. Bluetooth 5.0 connection is used to exchange data with a mobile device. The headphones have an intelligent active noise reduction system with high efficiency. You can disable this feature completely or use […]

Microsoft implements graphics server and GPU acceleration in WSL

Microsoft has announced significant improvements to the WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) subsystem that allows running Linux executables on Windows: Added support for running Linux GUI applications, eliminating the need to use third-party X servers. Support is implemented through GPU access virtualization. An open source dxgkrnl driver has been prepared for the Linux kernel, providing the /dev/dxg device with […]

BIAS is a new attack on Bluetooth that allows you to fake a paired device

Researchers from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have identified a vulnerability in the pairing methods of devices that comply with the Bluetooth Classic (Bluetooth BR/EDR) standard. The vulnerability is codenamed BIAS (PDF). The problem allows an attacker to organize the connection of his fake device instead of a previously connected user device, and successfully complete the authentication procedure without knowing the link key generated during the initial pairing of devices and […]

Microsoft President Admits He Was Wrong About Open Source

Brad Smith, president and chief legal officer of Microsoft, acknowledged at a meeting at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology that his views on the open source software movement have changed dramatically in recent years. According to Smith, Microsoft was on the wrong side of history during the expansion of open source software at the beginning of the century and he shared this attitude, but […]

Iosevka 3.0.0

Version 3.0.0 of the best font for terminal emulators and text editors with a graphical user interface has been released. Over the course of five alpha and three beta versions, as well as eight release candidates, a number of new glyphs and ligatures have been added, individual character styles have been improved, and many other corrections have been made (see Details). In addition, starting from this version the names of the packages have been changed: Iosevka Term […]

Orchestrator for MySQL: why you can't build a fault-tolerant project without it

Any large project started with a couple of servers. At first there was one DB server, then slaves were added to it to scale reading. And then - stop! One master, but many slaves; if one of the slaves leaves, then everything will be fine, and if the master leaves, it will be bad: downtime, admins in the soap raise the server. What to do? Reserve master. My […]

Orchestrator and VIP as HA Solution for MySQL Cluster

At Citymobil, we use a MySQL database as our main persistent data store. We have several database clusters for various services and purposes. The constant availability of the wizard is a critical indicator of the health of the entire system and its individual parts. Automatic cluster recovery in the event of a master failure greatly reduces incident response time and system downtime. […]