Canonical has announced the availability of installing the Ubuntu 19.10 distribution using the ZFS file system on the root partition. This implementation is based on the ZFS on Linux project, which is provided as a module for the Linux kernel and has been included in the standard kernel package since Ubuntu 16.04. In Ubuntu 19.10, support for ZFS will be updated to version […]
At the recently held Black Hat USA conference in Las Vegas, the Pwnie Awards 2019 ceremony took place, which highlighted the most significant vulnerabilities and absurd failures in the field of computer security. The Pwnie Awards are considered the equivalent of the Oscars and Razzies in computer security and have been held annually since 2007. Major winners and nominations: Best Server […]
Today, after 4 years and 5 months of work, we are pleased to announce the release of Xfce 4.14, a new stable version that replaces Xfce 4.12. In this release, the main goal was to migrate all core components from Gtk2 to Gtk3, and from 'D-Bus GLib' to GDBus. Most components also gained support for GObject Introspection. Along the way, we completed work on […]
Hello everyone! A year ago, I wrote an article about how I organized a university course on signal processing. Judging by the feedback, there are many interesting ideas in the article, but it's large and difficult to read. I have long wanted to break it into smaller parts and write them more clearly. However, rewriting the same thing twice doesn't seem to work. Additionally, […]
Alan Kay is the Yoda for IT professionals. He was instrumental in the creation of the first personal computer (Xerox Alto), the SmallTalk language, and the concept of "object-oriented programming." He has often expressed his views on education in Computer Science and recommended books for those who want to deepen their knowledge: Alan Kay: how I would teach Computer Science 101 […]
Today's lesson will be dedicated to VLAN settings, meaning we'll try to implement everything we've discussed in previous lessons. We will address three questions: creating VLANs, assigning VLAN ports, and viewing the VLAN database. Let's open the Cisco Packet Tracer program window with the logical topology of our network that I have drawn. The first switch SW0 is connected to two computers PC0 and […]
Some time ago, I created a system for assessing the viability of office UPS. The evaluation is based on long-term monitoring. As a result of using it, I refined the system and learned a lot of interesting things, which I will share—welcome under the cut. Part One Overall, the idea turned out to be correct. From a one-time query to the UPS, you can only learn that life is pain. Part […]
Google may add support for a cross-platform clipboard in Chrome, allowing users to sync content across all platforms. In other words, this will enable copying a URL on one device and accessing it on another. This feature may be useful when transferring a link from a computer to a smartphone or vice versa. Of course, all of this works through the account […]
Jyske Bank, Denmark's third-largest bank, announced last week that its customers can now take out a 10-year mortgage with a fixed interest rate of -0.5%, meaning customers will repay less than they borrowed. In other words, if you bought a house for $1 million on credit and fully paid off the mortgage in 10 […]
After nearly a year and a half since the last release, the Nmap 7.80 network security scanner has been launched, designed for network auditing and identifying active network services. It includes 11 new NSE scripts for automating various tasks with Nmap. The signature databases for identifying network applications and operating systems have been updated. Recently, the main focus has been on […]
After more than four years of development, the release of the Xfce 4.14 desktop environment has been prepared, aimed at providing a classic desktop that requires minimal system resources to operate. Xfce consists of a number of interconnected components that can be used in other projects if desired. Among these components are: a window manager, an application launcher panel, a display manager, a session management manager, and control over […]
Stefan Sperling (stsp@), a participant in the OpenBSD project with a decade of experience and one of the main developers of Apache Subversion, is developing a new version control system called 'Game of Trees' (got). The new system prioritizes simplicity of design and ease of use over flexibility. Currently, Got is still in development; it is being developed exclusively on OpenBSD, and its target audience […]