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The publicly available dumps of historical slices containing BSD 3 code include the /etc/passwd file with password hashes of the Unix founders. Since the passwords are hashed using the DES method, which poses no challenges for modern computing technology in terms of cracking, enthusiasts have attempted to recover the passwords used by the Unix founders. Nearly all of the founders' passwords were cracked almost […]
The release of the NixOS 19.09 distribution has been presented, based on the Nix package manager and providing a number of proprietary developments that simplify the configuration and maintenance of the system. For example, NixOS uses a single system configuration file (configuration.nix), allows for quick rollbacks of updates, supports switching between different system states, enables individual users to install specific packages (a package is installed in the home directory), and allows simultaneous installation […]
Upon encountering a video on one of the information portals with a headline roughly stating, "Internet access speed in Madagascar is higher than in France, Canada, and the UK," I must admit I was genuinely surprised. It is worth noting that the island nation of Madagascar, unlike the aforementioned northern countries, is geographically located at the far end of a rather underprivileged continent — Africa. In […]
According to VideoCardz.com, XFX has prepared to launch the Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC III Ultra graphics card for gaming desktops. Let's recall the key specifications of the AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT series. It features 2560 stream processors and 8 GB of GDDR6 memory with a 256-bit bus. For the reference models, the base clock is 1605 MHz, with a boost clock of […]
The Gentoo Linux distribution has turned 20 years old. On October 4, 1999, Daniel Robbins registered the domain gentoo.org and began developing a new distribution, attempting to transfer some ideas from the FreeBSD project together with Bob Mutch, merging them with the Linux distribution Enoch, which had been under development for about a year, experimenting with building a distribution assembled from […]
After six months of development, the release of OpenSSH 8.1 has been presented, which is an open implementation of a client and server for working with SSH 2.0 and SFTP protocols. The new release particularly addresses a vulnerability affecting ssh, sshd, ssh-add, and ssh-keygen. The issue is present in the code for parsing private keys of type XMSS, allowing an attacker to initiate an integer overflow. This vulnerability is marked as exploitable, […]
The source texts of DrakonHub, an online diagram editor, mind maps, and block diagrams in the DRAGON language, have been made public. The code is open as public domain. The application is written in DRAGON-JavaScript and DRAGON-Lua within the DRAKON Editor environment (most JavaScript and Lua files are generated from scripts written in the DRAGON language). It is worth noting that DRAGON is a simple visual language for describing algorithms and processes, optimized for […]
1. The day turned out to be unfortunate. It started with me waking up in new clothes. I mean, they were old, of course, but now they weren’t mine. The red arrow in the corner of the interface was blinking, signaling a completed move. "Damn it!" To become a displaced person for the second time in a year is quite too much. It’s just bad luck. However, there’s nothing to be done: it was time to […]
When you want to submit your research article to a journal, you must choose a target journal relevant to your field of study, and it should be indexed in one of the major indexing databases, such as ISI, Scopus, SCI, SCI-E, or ESCI. However, identifying a target journal with a good citation report isn't straightforward. In this article, the publisher […]
This further explores the topic of the "Golden Ratio" in economics—what is it? Let’s approach the issue of preferred resource allocation from a perspective that hasn’t been discussed yet. We will take the simplest model of event generation: flipping a coin and the probability of getting heads or tails. It is postulated that: The outcome of heads or tails is equally likely with each individual flip – 50 […]
Richard Stallman's response to the joint statement regarding the GNU project. As the head of GNU, I want to assure the community that there will be no radical changes in the GNU project, its goals, principles, and policies. I intend to gradually introduce changes to the decision-making processes because I will not be here forever, and we need to prepare others to make decisions […]
The LibreOffice development community — The Document Foundation has announced the translation of the getting started guide for LibreOffice 6 into Russian. The guide was translated by Valery Goncharuk, Alexander Denkin, and Roman Kuznetsov. The PDF document contains 470 pages and is distributed under the licenses GPLv3+ and Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (CC BY). You can download the guide here. Source: […]