Author: ProHoster

Generals on cards: Creative Assembly announced TCG Total War: Elysium

Creative Assembly studio and publisher SEGA have announced Total War: Elysium, a collectible card game that will be distributed as a free-to-play game. The project involves forming decks from different historical figures and units, and all events take place in the fictional city of Elysium. As PCGamesN reports with reference to the official press release, the project is similar to other representatives of the genre and […]

Android 11 Public Beta Coming June 3rd

As tech companies experiment with different ways to launch products in the age of social distancing, Google announced that the first public beta of the Android 11 platform will be revealed on June 3 via a livestream on YouTube. The company released a promotional video dedicated to the online event The Beta Launch Show, scheduled for the mentioned date. It is expected that this event will be [...]

ASUS Tinker Edge R Single Board Computer Designed for AI Applications

ASUS has announced a new single-board computer: a product called Tinker Edge R, created specifically for the implementation of various projects in the field of machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI). The new product is based on the Rockchip RK3399Pro processor with an integrated NPU module designed to speed up AI-related operations. The chip contains two Cortex-A72 and four Cortex-A53 cores, […]

MSI Updates MEG Trident X Compact Gaming Computer

MSI has announced an improved version of the MEG Trident X small form factor desktop computer: the device uses the Intel Comet Lake hardware platform - a tenth generation Core processor. The desktop is housed in a case with dimensions of 396 × 383 × 130 mm. The front part has multi-color backlighting, and the side panel is made of tempered glass. “Customize the look of your Trident X computer with […]

Origin PC EVO15-S Gaming Laptop Carries Intel Comet Lake Chip

Origin PC has announced the next-generation EVO15-S laptop: a laptop designed for gaming fans, now available to order on this page. The laptop is equipped with a 15,6-inch display. A 4K OLED panel (3840 × 2160 pixels) with a 60 Hz refresh rate or a Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels) panel with a 240 Hz refresh rate can be installed. The computing load is placed on the Intel Core i7-10875H processor […]

Free book about Wayland published

Drew DeVault, author of the Sway user environment built using the Wayland protocol, announced the opening of unlimited access to his book “The Wayland Protocol,” which details the Wayland protocol and the features of its use in practice. The book may be useful for understanding the concepts, architecture and implementation of Wayland, as well as as a guide to writing your own client […]

OpenIndiana 2020.04 and OmniOS CE r151034 available, continuing development of OpenSolaris

The release of the free distribution kit OpenIndiana 2020.04 took place, replacing the binary distribution kit OpenSolaris, the development of which was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides the user with a working environment built on a fresh slice of the Illumos project codebase. The actual development of OpenSolaris technologies continues with the Illumos project, which develops the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, as well as a basic set of user system utilities […]

Release of Tails 4.6 distribution and Tor Browser 9.0.10

A release of a specialized distribution kit, Tails 4.6 (The Amnesic Incognito Live System), based on the Debian package base and designed to provide anonymous access to the network, has been created. Anonymous access to Tails is provided by the Tor system. All connections other than traffic through the Tor network are blocked by the packet filter by default. To store user data in the user data saving mode between launches, […]

Firefox 76

Firefox 76 is available. Password Manager: From now on, warns that the login and password saved for a resource were revealed in a leak that occurred from this resource, and also that the saved password was seen in a leak from another resource (therefore it is worth using unique passwords) . The leak check does not reveal user logins and passwords to the remote server: login and […]

SFTP and FTPS protocols

Preface Just a week ago I wrote an essay on the topic indicated in the title and faced the fact that, let's say, there is not so much cognitive information on the network. Mostly dry facts and setup instructions. Therefore, I decided to slightly correct the text and post it as an article. What is FTP FTP (File Transfer Protocol) – […]

Cutting the threads: moving from Puppet Enterprise to Ansible Tower. Part 1

The National Environmental Satellite Data Information Service (NESDIS) reduced its Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) configuration management costs by 35% by moving from Puppet Enterprise to Ansible Tower. In this "how we did it" video, Systems Engineer Michael Rau explains the rationale for doing this migration, shares useful tips and lessons learned from migrating from […]

Problems of autonomous access control systems - Where they did not expect

Good day to all. I'll start with the background, about what prompted me to conduct this study, but before that, I'll warn you: all practical actions were carried out with the consent of the governing structures. Any attempt to use this material to enter a closed area without the right to be there is a criminal offense. It all started with the fact that cleaning the table, I […]