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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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
'One of the reasons to actually attend university is to move beyond simple vocational training and instead grasp deeper ideas.' Let's ponder this question a bit. A few years ago, computer science departments invited me to give lectures at several universities. Almost by chance, I asked my first audience, which consisted of seniors, […]
The occurrence of the word 'first' in the article is overwhelming. The first program 'Hello, World', the first game MUD, the first shooter, the first deathmatch, the first graphical user interface, the first 'desktop', the first Ethernet, the first three-button mouse, the first ball mouse, the first optical mouse, the first full-page-sized monitor, the first multiplayer game… the first personal computer. The year is 1973 in Palo Alto, at the legendary R&D lab […]
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 […]
The Gentoo project announced the stabilization of a profile for the AArch64 (ARM64) architecture, which has been promoted to the primary architecture category, now receiving full support and vulnerability updates. Supported ARM64 platforms include Raspberry Pi 3 (Model B), Odroid C2, Pine (A64+, Pinebook, Rock64, Sopine64, RockPro64), DragonBoard 410c, and Firefly AIO-3399J. Source: opennet.ru
In the nightly builds of Firefox that will form the basis for the release of Firefox 70, support for a strict page isolation mode, developed under the code name Fission, has been added. When this new mode is activated, pages from different sites will always be placed in the memory of different processes, each applying its own sandbox. The separation by processes will be done not by tabs, but by […]
Canonical has released an update for the Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS distribution, which includes several enhancements for improved performance. The build features updates to the Linux kernel, graphic stack, and several hundred packages. Errors in the installer and bootloader have also been fixed. Updates are available for all distributions: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Kubuntu 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu Budgie 18.04.3 LTS, Ubuntu MATE 18.04.3 LTS, […]