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The FreeBSD developers announced the plan to remove GCC 4.2.1 from the source code of the FreeBSD base system. GCC components will be removed by the time the FreeBSD 13 branch is created, which will include only the Clang compiler. GCC can still be installed from the ports, where GCC 9, 7, and 8 are available, as well as already deprecated releases of GCC […]
Oracle has announced its efforts to port DTrace-related changes upstream and plans to implement dynamic debugging technology DTrace over the standard Linux kernel infrastructure, specifically using subsystems like eBPF. Initially, the main issue with using DTrace on Linux was licensing incompatibility, but in 2018, Oracle relicensed the code […]
Bandai Namco Entertainment has released another trailer for its psychological thriller The Dark Pictures: Man of Medan. Back in July, the developers announced that the upcoming game would feature two multiplayer modes. A week ago, they released a trailer dedicated to the two-player gameplay mode called 'Shared Story'. Now, they have released a video that discusses 'Movie Night'. Supermassive Games noted that […]
Updates for the stable branch of OpenBSD have been announced. Previously, using the '-stable' branch only allowed for binary updates to the base system through syspatch. Packages were built once for the release branch and were no longer updated. Now, however, three branches are planned to be supported: '-release': a frozen branch, from which packages are built once for release and no longer […]
A corrective update for Firefox 68.0.2 has been released, addressing several issues: A vulnerability (CVE-2019-11733) allowing saved passwords to be copied without entering the master password has been fixed. When using the 'copy password' option provided in the context menu while in the Saved Logins dialog ('Page Info / Security / View Saved Password'), copying to the clipboard is performed without the need to enter a password (the password input dialog appears, but the data is copied […]
The EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) project, which maintains a repository of additional packages for RHEL and CentOS, has announced that the EPEL 8 repository is ready for release. The repository was created two weeks ago and is now deemed ready for integration. Through EPEL, users of distributions compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are offered an additional set of packages from Fedora Linux, supported by communities […]
Wine is a program for running Windows applications on Unix-based computers. Running Wine on Windows has been the dream of fans who answer the call of their hearts: 'We do what we must because we are not obligated to do it,' at least since 2004 when someone attempted to compile Wine in Cygwin and broke the host system registry. The justification: 'What about old applications, […]
Even though it's August, we are not taking it easy and continue to prepare for the new business season. Introducing 3CX v16 Update 3 Alpha! This release adds automatic configuration of SIP trunks based on information received from DNS, automatic reconnection of mobile clients for Android and iOS, audio recognition, and drag-and-drop of attachments into the web client chat window. The new release features […]
At times, a technical support engineer faces a tough choice: to adopt a dialogue model of 'We are committed to high service culture!' or 'Click the button — get the result'? ...With a wing made of cotton broken, We'll lie in the clouds like in tombs. We poets are rarely saints, We poets are often blind. (Oleg Ladyzhensky) Working in Technical Support is not just about funny stories about self-jumping […]
Researchers from Boston University have developed an attack method (CVE-2019-11728) that allows scanning of IP addresses and open network ports in a user's internal network, separated from the external network by a firewall, or on the current system (localhost). The attack can be executed by opening a specially crafted page in a browser. The proposed technique is based on the use of the HTTP header Alt-Svc (HTTP Alternate Services, RFC-7838). The issue manifests itself […]
Over many years, the Linux operating system has become just as high-quality and reliable as Windows and macOS. However, it still has a fundamental drawback related to the inability to handle data correctly when there is insufficient RAM. On systems with limited RAM, it's common to encounter situations where the OS freezes and does not respond to commands. At the same time, it is impossible […]
In this article, we will discuss how we addressed the issue of insufficient storage space in the warehouse and the development of a discrete optimization algorithm to solve this problem. We will explain how we "built" the mathematical model for the optimization task and the unexpected challenges we faced when processing the input data for the algorithm. If you are interested in the applications of mathematics in business and […]