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In 2019, it will be 100 years since our compatriot filed a patent application for the jetpack. Today, September 11, is the inventor's birthday. "With the device, aerial reconnaissance can be conducted with greater safety than on an airplane... entire military units, equipped with these devices (which will be several times more expensive when produced in a factory) […]
As published on the Oracle Solaris Blog, on May 29, 2019, an update for the Solaris 11.4 OS SRU 9 was released, offering a series of further fixes and improvements to the Solaris 11.4 branch. To install the fixes proposed in the update, users only need to execute the command 'pkg update'. What's new and what has been updated: The Hardware Management Pack has been updated to version 2.4.6 […]
Canonical has released a new version of the display server Mir 1.2. Key changes include: a new package libmirwayland-dev, which is the first iteration of the API for enabling shells based on Mir (to support custom Wayland extensions), several related additions for the MirAL API, support for registering custom Wayland extensions added to WaylandExtensions, and a new class MinimalWindowManager providing default window management settings. Continued […]
A new version of the cross-platform image viewer qView 2.0 has been released. The main feature of the program is its efficient use of screen space. All core functionality is hidden in context menus, with no unnecessary panels or buttons on the screen. The interface can be customized if desired. Key new features include: caching and preloading of images, multi-threaded image loading, a redesigned settings window, and an option for the window […]
I frequently encounter developers who have not heard of the SOLID principles (we discussed them in detail here. — Editor) or object-oriented programming (OOP), or who have heard of them but do not implement them in practice. This article describes the advantages of OOP principles that assist developers in their daily work. Some are well-known, while others are less so, and […]
From the translator: We have published an article by Severin Perez on using SOLID principles in programming. The information in the article will be useful for both beginners and experienced programmers. If you are involved in development, you have likely heard of the SOLID principles. They allow programmers to write clean, well-structured, and easily maintainable code. It is worth noting that in programming there are […]
The developers of the Unity game engine have introduced an experimental Unity Editor for Linux. Currently, this pertains to versions for Ubuntu and CentOS, but in the future, the list of distributions is expected to expand. They have stated that they offered an unofficial experimental editor for many years, but now it is about an official product. A preview version is currently available, and the creators are gathering […]
Like many other large and small Taiwanese companies, E Ink Holdings, the producer of "paper-like" displays, made its presence known with a booth at Computex 2019. Unfortunately for the company and fans of E Ink displays, the era of e-readers appears to be waning. A new growth area that E Ink is optimistic about is electronic notebooks (e-notebooks). However, the topic of dual-screen solutions in […]
I have always believed that a lazy programmer is a good programmer. Why? Because if you ask a hard-working person to do something, they will go ahead and do it. A lazy programmer will spend 2-3 times longer, but will write a script that will do it for them. Perhaps the first time it will take an unjustifiably long time, but with repeated […]
The release of the free cryptographic library Sodium 1.0.18 is now available. It is API compatible with the NaCl (Networking and Cryptography library) and provides functions for secure network communication, hashing, random number generation, digital signatures, and encryption using authenticated public and symmetric (shared-key) keys. The Sodium API emphasizes simplicity and defaults to the most secure options, […]
Several new releases of open media servers designed for online streaming are now available: The first release, Roc, is a toolkit for real-time audio streaming over the network, featuring guaranteed latency times and CD-quality assurance. It takes into account the time drift between the clocks of the sender and receiver. Support for lost packet recovery is included with […]
Your deeds are wondrous, Lord. I recently expressed this at a conference dedicated to the theory of generations X, Y, Z. It so happened that all this generational hype passed me by. Therefore, when they started telling me that managing teams requires considering their affiliation to a certain letter of the Latin alphabet, I was a bit puzzled ('surprised', 'astonished', 'dumbfounded', […]