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Despite the evident difficulties in producing sufficient quantities of 14nm chips, Intel continues to steadily expand its lineup of ninth-generation Core processors, known by the codename Coffee Lake Refresh. However, this is achieved with mixed success. Formally, new products are indeed being added to the lineup, but they are quite reluctant to appear in retail, and […]
Last December, HPE announced the release of a modular computing platform for in-memory processing using in-memory technology with the widest scaling capabilities in the world — HPE Superdome Flex. This is a breakthrough in computing systems designed to support mission-critical applications, real-time analytics, and high-performance computing with intensive data processing. The HPE Superdome Flex platform […]
As it develops the Mission Critical server direction, Hewlett Packard Enterprise does not forget about the needs of small and medium-sized business customers. Often, although not always, the process of searching for computing power for new tasks within the small and medium-sized business (SMB) client is unpredictable and challenging: needs grow, new urgent tasks arise spontaneously, and all this is accompanied by attempts to understand […]
The developers of the Ruby programming language have announced the migration of the main repository from the centralized version control system Subversion to the distributed source code management system Git. Development of the new stable branch ruby_2_7 and the trunk branch has moved to Git, but the support for the branches ruby_2_4, ruby_2_5, and ruby_2_6 remains in SVN. A web interface based on […] has been proposed for navigating the code and changes in the main repository.
The first release of Termshark is now available, a console interface developed as an add-on to the ongoing Wireshark network protocol analyzer project TShark. The code is written in Go and is distributed under the MIT license. Ready builds are prepared for Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, and Windows. The Termshark interface stylistically resembles the standard graphical interface of Wireshark and provides familiar packet inspection functionalities for Wireshark users […]
The release of Windows 10 May 2019 Update is just around the corner. This version is expected to bring numerous innovations, including changes to the Start Menu. Reportedly, one of the updates will simplify the creation of a new user account during the initial setup. Additionally, the menu will have a lighter and simpler design, with a reduction in the number of tiles and other elements. However, visually […]
Microsoft is actively participating in the Chromium project, which forms the basis for browsers like Edge, Google Chrome, and many others. Currently, Chrome includes its own smooth scrolling feature, and the company from Redmond is working on enhancing this capability. In Chromium browsers, scrolling by clicking on the scrollbar can seem inconvenient. Microsoft aims to introduce classic smooth scrolling […]
Malware researcher Marcus Hutchins has pleaded guilty to two counts of creating and selling banking malware, bringing an end to his long and protracted battle with the U.S. prosecution. Hutchins, a British citizen and owner of the MalwareTech website and blog focused on malware and cybersecurity, was arrested in August 2017 while he was about to fly back […]
The Fermilab laboratory, which is responsible for developing the Scientific Linux distribution, has announced that it will cease the development of a new branch of the distribution. In the future, computer systems at Fermilab and other laboratories involved in the project will transition to the use of CentOS 8. A new branch of Scientific Linux 8, based on the package base of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8, will not be formed. Instead of maintaining its own distribution, the developers from Fermilab […]
Scientific Linux (SL) is a Linux operating system distribution created through the joint efforts of Fermilab and CERN, with support from various laboratories and universities around the world. It is built from the source code of Red Hat Enterprise Linux versions in accordance with the end-user license agreement. Recently, more and more users have been transitioning from using […]
Introduction to Operating Systems Hello, Habr! I would like to present to your attention a series of translated articles on literature that I find interesting — OSTEP. This material explores in depth the workings of Unix-like operating systems, specifically focusing on processes, various schedulers, memory, and other similar components that make up a modern OS. You can view the original materials here. […]
If you use a time series database (timeseries db, wiki) as the main storage for a site with statistics, you might end up with a lot of headaches instead of a solution. I am working on a project that uses such a database, and sometimes InfluxDB, which I will discuss, brought unexpected surprises. Disclaimer: the issues mentioned apply to version InfluxDB 1.7.4. Why time series? The project […]