Author: ProHoster

Firefox 76 release

The Firefox 76 web browser was released, as well as the mobile version of Firefox 68.8 for the Android platform. In addition, an update to the long-term support branch 68.8.0 has been created. In the near future, the Firefox 77 branch will enter the beta testing stage, the release of which is scheduled for June 2. Main innovations: The capabilities of the Lockwise system add-on included in the browser have been expanded, offering the “about:logins” interface for […]

Demonstrated running MS Office on Linux

On Twitter, a Canonical employee promoting Ubuntu in WSL and Hyper-V posted a video of Microsoft Word and Excel running in Ubuntu 20.04 without Wine and WSL. Launching MS Word is described as “The program runs quite quickly on a system with an Intel Core i5 6300U processor with integrated graphics. This is not running through Wine, this is not a remote worker […]

Release of the vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.0

After several years of development, the free vector graphics editor Inkscape 1.0 was released. The editor provides flexible drawing tools and provides support for reading and saving images in SVG, OpenDocument Drawing, DXF, WMF, EMF, sk1, PDF, EPS, PostScript and PNG formats. Ready-made builds of Inkscape are prepared for Linux (AppImage, Snap, Flatpak), macOS and Windows. Among those added in the thread […]

Parser game "ARCHIVE" on the free engine INSTEAD

A new game "ARCHIVE" was created using the free INSTEAD engine. The game is made in the genre of interactive literature with text control. Contains illustrations, music and sound effects. The game source code (Lua) is distributed under the CC-BY 3.0 license. Builds have been prepared for Linux and Windows OS. For other OSes, you can download the INSTEAD interpreter and the archive with the game separately, or try running […]

ns-3 network simulator tutorial. Chapter 3

chapters 1,2 3 Getting Started 3.1 Overview 3.2 Prerequisites 3.2.1 Downloading the ns-3 release as a source archive 3.3 Downloading ns-3 with Git 3.3.1 Downloading ns-3 with Bake 3.4 Building ns-3 3.4.1. 3.4.2 Building with build.py 3.4.3 Building with Bake 3.5 Building with Waf 3 Testing ns-3.6 3.6.1 Running the script XNUMX Arguments […]

ns-3 network simulator tutorial. Chapter 4

Chapters 1,2 Chapter 3 4 Concept Overview 4.1 Key Abstractions 4.1.1 Node 4.1.2 Application 4.1.3 Channel 4.1.4 Net Device 4.1.5 Topology Helpers 4.2 First Script ns-3 4.2.1 Boilerplate code 4.2.2 Plugins 4.2.3 ns3 namespace 4.2.4 Logging 4.2.5 Main function 4.2.6 Using topology helpers 4.2.7 Using Application 4.2.8 Simulator […]

ns-3 network simulator tutorial. Chapter 5

chapters 1,2 chapter 3 chapter 4 5 Configuration 5.1 Using the logging module 5.1.1 Overview of logging 5.1.2 Enabling logging 5.1.3 Adding logging to your code 5.2 Using command line arguments 5.2.1 Overriding default attribute values ​​5.2.2 Capturing your own commands 5.3 Using the tracing system 5.3.1 ASCII Tracing Parsing ASCII traces 5.3.2 PCAP tracing Chapter 5 […]

Apple: WWDC 2020 will start on June 22 and will be held online

Apple today officially announced that the series of online events as part of the WWDC 2020 conference will begin on June 22. It will be available in the Apple Developer application and on the website of the same name, and moreover, the cycle will be free for all developers. The main event is expected to take place on June 22 and will open WWDC. “WWDC20 will be our biggest effort yet, bringing together our global developer community, […]

Firefox browser now warns the user about a password leak

Mozilla today released a stable version of the Firefox 76 browser for desktop Windows, macOS and Linux. The new release comes with bug fixes, security patches and new features, the most interesting of which is the improved Firefox Lockwise password manager. The highlight of Firefox 76 is the new additions to the built-in Firefox Lockwise password manager (available at about:logins). Firstly, […]

Microsoft denies reports of a drop in Windows market share

It was previously reported that Microsoft has lost about one percent of Windows users over the past month. However, the software giant denies the accuracy of this data, claiming that Windows usage is only growing and has increased by 75% compared to the same period last year. According to the company, the total time spent using Windows is four trillion minutes per month, or 7 […]

New Tony Hawk's Pro Skater Coming in 2020 According to Pro Skateboarder

Nibel insider posted a video on his Twitter account featuring professional skateboarder Jason Dill. In the video, the athlete says that the new part of the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series will be released in 2020. According to the Wccftech resource, this is the second leak recently related to the mentioned franchise. Not long ago, in one of the German gaming […]

Microsoft will talk about news from the world of Xbox every month until the end of the year

Microsoft's gaming division is set to livestream its Inside Xbox event on May 7th. It will talk about new games for the future Xbox Series X console. This event will be dedicated to games from third-party teams, and not internal studios Xbox Game Studios. It will definitely show game footage of the recently announced action game Assassin's Creed Valhalla from Ubisoft. Beginning with […]