For 20 years now, on the last Friday of July, it has been a tradition, established on July 28, 1999 by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator from Chicago, to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day. From the author of this news: I sincerely want to congratulate those who support phone and computer networks, administer servers and workstations. Here's to a stable connection, with no glitches […]
Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. The improvements are as follows: Templates: The Merge function has been added. The interface has expanded. The ability to convert numeric values to float64 and compare them has been implemented. Greater error detail in Where. An error message is returned for incorrect input in In. Core: A symdiff test has been added. The test file has been added to .gitignore. The possibility of parallel […]
In December 2018, my wife and I moved from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki. There are already quite a few articles and (video) blogs about what life is like in Finland and whether it's worth moving here. Instead, I would like to share the part of the story related to the move itself. We had to tackle a plethora of issues of varying importance, many of which arose […]
The last few years have been marked not only by the rapid development of internet technologies and the penetration of the internet into regions of the planet where even ordinary mobile communication is difficult. Tools for internet censorship have been developed and adopted by officials, including bans on websites and services, monitoring user messages in email and chat services, DPI packet filtering, and much more. Journalists from well-known […]
Once users deploy a video surveillance system and subsequently scale it, they often become 'hostages' of the established hardware. Transitioning from one hardware and services provider to another can be costly. Many manufacturers in the market create their own services, adding another pet to the large zoo of solutions. 'Friendship' among various hardware in a single project is challenging, but we have figured out how to achieve it. Today we will tell […]
TL:DR; A newcomer tried Haiku for the first time and decided it’s amazing. Especially compared to the work environments available on Linux. I've already shared my thoughts (as well as frustrations) regarding #LinuxUsability (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6). In this review, I will describe my first impressions of Haiku, the operating system […]
The VAIO brand has announced the ThinBoot ZERO Type V portable computer, built on Intel hardware and the Microsoft operating system. The new model is positioned as a mobile thin client. It can connect to a computer network using either a wired or wireless connection. In the first case, data transmission is handled by a Gigabit Ethernet controller, while in the second — by a Wi-Fi adapter IEEE802.11a/b/g/n/ac. Additionally, it is possible to […]
This week, Grand Theft Auto Online received an update that added a new attraction — the Diamond casino hotel. However, it later turned out that not all users can experience it: it is unavailable in more than fifty countries due to local gambling laws. One Reddit user shared that when attempting to purchase chips for gambling, they received […]
Microsoft has released an internal test build of Windows 10, numbered 18947. However, it was mistakenly made available to Windows Insider participants, regardless of whether they were on the Fast or Slow Ring. This build, as it turns out, features a new Start menu design that does away with the characteristic tiles. The 'leaked' build was created […]
The release of XCP-NG 8.0 has been published, which serves as a free and open-source alternative to the proprietary XenServer 8.0 platform for deploying and managing cloud infrastructure. XCP-NG recreates the functionality that Citrix removed from the free version of Citrix Xen Server starting with version 7.3. XCP-NG 8.0 is positioned as a stable release suitable for widespread use. The update from XenServer is supported […]
Jolla has released the Sailfish OS 3.1. The builds are prepared for devices such as Jolla 1, Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, Gemini, and are already available as an OTA update. Sailfish uses a graphical stack based on Wayland and Qt5 libraries, with the system environment built on Mer, which has been developed as part of Sailfish since April, and the Nemo package from the Mer distribution. The user experience […]
Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + import. Changes: The old literal syntax for Optional is no longer supported. Surrogate pairs and non-characters are prohibited. A new keyword toMap has been added for creating homogeneous associative lists from records. Beta normalization: record field sorting has been improved. What's new: Path imports have been implemented as a location – […]