This year, the Chinese company Huawei launched its own operating system, Harmony OS, which could replace Android if the manufacturer can no longer use Google's software platform in its devices. Notably, Harmony OS can be used not only in smartphones and tablets but also in other types of devices. Now, network sources report that […]
Speedrunning Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas has always required a lot of time. Even in the Any% category, where there are no additional conditions, the top position was held for five months by a player known as Ielreset, with a time of 3 hours and 52 minutes. However, his record was broken by speedrunner Powdinet, who completed GTA: San Andreas in just 25 minutes and 52 seconds. The enthusiast managed to […]
The studio Running With Scissors unexpectedly announced Postal 4: No Regerts. According to the description, Postal 4: No Regerts is a satirical and 'outrageously comedic' first-person shooter in an open world. The developer calls the game 'the true sequel to what was lovingly recognized as the “Worst Game of All Time,” Postal 2!'. The narrative takes place several years after the events of Postal 2. Only […]
The release of the PoCL 1.4 project (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) is now available, which develops the implementation of the OpenCL standard independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers and allows the use of various backends for executing OpenCL kernels on different types of graphics and central processors. The project's code is distributed under the MIT license. It supports operation on X86_64, MIPS32, ARM v7, AMD HSA APU, and various specialized TTA processors (Transport […]
The release of the GNU Binutils 2.33 system utility set has been presented, which includes programs like GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, and strip. In the new version: The assembler for ARM systems has added support for the SVE2 (Scalable Vector Extension 2), TME (Transactional Memory Extension), and MVE (Vector Extension) instruction sets. Support has been added for Arm Cortex-A76AE, Cortex-A77, Cortex-M35P processors, […]
After 6 months of development, a new version of the Zabbix monitoring system 4.4 is now available, distributed under the GPLv2 license. Zabbix consists of three basic components: a server to coordinate checks, generate check requests, and accumulate statistics; agents to perform checks on external hosts; and a frontend for managing the system. To reduce the load on the central server and create […]
Despite abandoning the Unity shell and switching to Gnome, Canonical continues to develop the Mir display server, with the release of version 1.5 occurring recently. Among the changes, the expansion of the MirAL (Mir Abstraction Layer), used to move away from direct interaction with the Mir server and abstracting access to the ABI through the libmiral library, can be noted. MirAL has added […]
Hello everyone. It has been six months since KnowledgeConf 2019, during which I have had the opportunity to speak at two more conferences and conduct lectures on knowledge management at two large IT companies. Talking with colleagues, I realized that in IT it is still possible to speak about knowledge management at a 'beginner' level, or rather, just to acknowledge that knowledge management is necessary for everyone […]
In this article, I will discuss the capabilities of the Cockpit tool. Cockpit was created to simplify the administration of Linux operating systems. In short, it allows performing the most common Linux administrator tasks through a pleasant web interface. Cockpit features: installation and verification of system updates and enabling automatic updates (patching process), user management (creating, deleting, changing passwords, blocking, granting superuser rights), disk management (creating, editing LVM, […]
Due to changes in legislation regarding trust services ("On Electronic Trust Services" Ukraine), there arose a need for several departments in the company to work with keys located on tokens (currently, the number of hardware keys is still under discussion). As a cost-effective tool (free of charge), the choice immediately fell on usbip. The server on Ubuntu 18.04 was launched thanks to the publication "Taming […]
There is often a need to connect a USB device to a remote PC over a local network. Below, I outline my search in this direction and the path to a ready solution based on the open-source project USB/IP, describing the various obstacles encountered along the way and how to circumvent them. Part one, historical. If the machine is virtual, this is not difficult. […]
In 1502, Sultan Bayezid II contemplated building a bridge across the Golden Horn to connect Istanbul and the neighboring city of Galata. Among the responses from leading engineers of that time, the project of the renowned Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci stood out for its originality. The traditional bridges of that time had a distinctly curved arch with spans. For the bridge […]