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Corrective updates have been released for all supported branches of PostgreSQL: 11.3, 10.8, 9.6.13, 9.5.17, and 9.4.22, which include a number of bug fixes. The release of updates for the 9.4 branch will continue until December 2019, 9.5 until January 2021, 9.6 until September 2021, 10 until October 2022, and 11 until November 2023. In the new […]
Today we launch a new section where we will discuss the most popular and accessible services, libraries, and utilities for students, researchers, and professionals. In the first issue, we will talk about basic approaches that can help improve efficiency, along with relevant SaaS services. Additionally, we will share tools for data visualization. Chris Liverani / Unsplash The "Pomodoro" Method. This is a time management technique. […]
Start on this site via the link. The most convenient option for capturing information about the starter activation turned out to be the one using the optocoupler PC817. The schematic plates contain three identical circuits, all housed in ABS plastic boxes measuring 100x100 mm. Photos of the optocouplers. When connected to semiconductor relay starters, their leakage current is sufficient to trigger the PC817 […]
Enthusiast Alfonso Torres, known by the nickname We1etu1n, posted a photo on Reddit showing a Nintendo Switch running Windows XP. The operating system, now 18 years old, took 6 hours to install, but Pinball 3D was able to run at full speed. It is reported that an L4T Ubuntu operating system and a QEMU virtual machine, enabling emulation of various architectures, were used for this […]
Typically, techniques aimed at replacing negative emotions with positive ones are used for psychological relief. Meditation is widely utilized for this purpose, although watching a good family movie can also help. In psychotherapy, there is also treatment through catharsis techniques, which involve processing past negative experiences. This includes the 'poisoned pen therapy,' where the patient writes letters to express their grievances […]
The release of Linux kernel version 5.1 has occurred. Significant new features include: io_uring — a new interface for asynchronous input/output. It supports polling, input/output buffering, and much more. The ability to choose the compression level for the zstd algorithm in the Btrfs file system has been added. Support for TLS 1.3 has been introduced. The Intel Fastboot mode is enabled by default for Skylake series processors and newer. Support for new hardware: GPU Vega10/20, a multitude of […]
Security researchers from Cisco have revealed details about a vulnerability (CVE-2019-5021) in the Alpine distribution builds for the Docker container isolation system. The essence of the identified issue is that a blank password was set by default for the root user, allowing direct login as root without restriction. Recall that Alpine is used to create official images from the Docker project (previously, official builds were based on […]
The release of the Trident 19.04 operating system is now available, built on FreeBSD technologies by the TrueOS project, which is developing a ready-to-use graphical user distribution reminiscent of older releases of PC-BSD and TrueOS. The size of the installation ISO image is 3 GB (AMD64). The Trident project is also now developing the Lumina graphical environment and all graphical tools previously available in PC-BSD, such as […]
At the Google I/O 2019 conference, Google announced in a blog for developers that Kotlin is now the preferred programming language for developing applications for its mobile operating system, which means primary support from the company in all tools, components, and APIs compared to other languages. 'Android development will […]
Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS) has announced a new small form factor computer — the Liva Z2A device built on the Intel hardware platform. The nettop fits in the palm of your hand: its dimensions are only 132 × 118 × 56.4 mm. The novelty features a fanless design, making it completely silent during operation. It utilizes the Intel Celeron N3350 processor from the Apollo Lake generation. This chip contains two computing cores and a graphics […]
Fresh statistics have been released regarding the distribution of various versions of the Android operating system in the global market. It is noted that the data is as of May 7, 2019. Versions of the Android software platform with a share of less than 0.1% are not considered. So, it is reported that the most widespread version of Android currently is Oreo (versions 8.0 and 8.1) with a result of […]
The UBports project, which took over the development of the Ubuntu Touch mobile platform after Canonical stepped back, has released the OTA-9 (over-the-air) firmware update for all officially supported smartphones and tablets that were equipped with Ubuntu-based firmware. The update has been crafted for smartphones such as OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, Meizu […]