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A significant new release of the image viewer program qView 2.0 is now available, featuring a Qt-based graphical interface designed for efficient screen space usage. The program supports all popular image formats and, despite its minimalist interface, offers advanced capabilities such as controlling the playback of animated images, accessing file operation history, preloading images in a multithreaded mode, and basic operations […]
Currently, Google supports only two operating systems: Android for mobile devices and Chrome OS for laptops. While they have much in common, they still do not form a unified ecosystem. The company is working to change this by first introducing the Play Store for Chrome OS and then adding support for Instant Tethering for many mobile devices and […]
As our colleagues from AnandTech have pointed out, one of the world's first developers of SoCs with an open RISC-V architecture, SiFive, has acquired a package of intellectual property consisting of USB 2.0 and USB 3.x interface IP blocks. The deal was made with Innovative Logic, a specialist in developing ready-to-integrate licensed blocks with interfaces. Previously, Innovative Logic had already been noted […]
Elasticsearch B.V has released new versions of the Elasticsearch search, analytics, and data storage platform: 6.8.0 and 7.1.0. These releases are notable for providing free access to security-related features. The following components are now available for free use: Traffic encryption components using the TLS protocol; User creation and management capabilities; Role-Based Access Control (RBAC) tools for selective access management based on roles, allowing […]
Hello, Habr! Articles often present colorful images instead of electrical diagrams, which leads to disputes in the comments. Because of this, I decided to write a brief educational article on the types of electrical diagrams classified in the Unified System of Design Documentation (ESKD). Throughout this article, I will rely on ESKD. Let's take a look at GOST 2.701-2008 Unified System of Design Documentation (ESKD). Diagrams. Types and […]
This article is written as a follow-up to the previous one at the request of the community. In this article, we will explore the magic of numbers in decimal numbering. We will review not only the numbering accepted in the Unified System of Design Documentation (ESKD) but also in the Unified System of Software Documentation (ESPD) and the Complex Standards for Automated Systems (KSAS), since the Hub mostly consists of IT […]
The transition to Windows 10 has allowed HP Inc. to increase revenue from computer sales in the corporate segment by 7 percent, and this factor will persist into the second half of the year. The shortage of Intel processors has hit the sales of low-cost laptops the hardest, but the company is now more focused on promoting premium products. The shortage of Intel processors may last until the end of July or September, […]
The Rust development team is pleased to announce a new version of its language: 1.35. Rust is a programming language that allows you to write reliable and efficient programs. If you already have Rust installed via rustup, you can update with the command: $ rustup update stable The main focus of this update is the implementation of the closure traits Fn, FnOnce, FnMut for Box, Box, Box, […]
A group of independent application developers for Linux wrote an open letter asking the Gnome community to stop using themes in their applications. The letter was addressed to the maintainers of distributions that embed their own GTK themes and icon sets, instead of the defaults. Many well-known distributions use their own themes and icon sets to give the system a cohesive style, highlight their brand, and provide users with a unique experience. […]
The Mozilla browser development team (Netscape Communicator 5.0) chose the GTK+ library as the primary development toolkit for XWindow, thus replacing the commercial Motif. The GTK+ library was created during the development of the GIMP graphics editor and is now used in the GNOME project (developing a free graphical environment for UNIX). Details at mozilla.org, MozillaZine. Source: linux.org.ru
A new ultra-fast magnetic levitation train, capable of reaching speeds up to 600 km/h, has moved a step closer to reality in China. On Thursday, the completion of the prototype assembly for the magnetic levitation vehicle was announced at a facility in Qingdao, a port city in Shandong province in eastern China. Created by the state-owned China Railway Rolling Stock Corporation (CRRC), the largest in the world […]
The corrective release of the Linux kernel 5.1.5 fixed a problem in the DM (Device Mapper) subsystem that could lead to data corruption on SSD drives. The problem emerged after a change was added to the kernel in January this year, affecting only the 5.1 branch and predominantly manifesting on systems with Samsung SSDs that use data encryption with […]