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A recent Gallup study indicates that over the past 11 years, the number of Russians wishing to move to another country has tripled. Most of these individuals (44%) are under 29 years old. Also, statistics show that the most desired country for immigration among Russians remains the USA. Therefore, I decided to compile data on visa types in one material […]
After a year of development, a new stable branch of the high-performance HTTP server and multiprotocol proxy server nginx 1.16.0 has been released, which incorporates changes accumulated in the main branch 1.15.x. Going forward, all changes in the stable branch 1.16 will relate to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities. Soon, the main branch nginx 1.17 will be formed, under which further […]
A popular Android app for finding Wi-Fi access points has exposed the passwords of over 2 million wireless networks. The program, used by thousands of people, is applied to search for Wi-Fi networks within the device's range. Additionally, users can upload passwords from known access points, allowing others to connect to these networks. It turned out that the database, […]
We developed DevOps as best we could. There were 8 of us, and Vasya was the best at Windows. Suddenly, Vasya left, and I was tasked with rolling out a new project that delivers Windows development. When I laid out the entire stack of Windows development on the table, I realized that the situation was painful… This is how Alexander Sinchinov's story at DevOpsConf begins. When the leading Windows specialist left the company, Alexander wondered what to do next. Switch to Linux, […]
The State Corporation for Space Activities Roscosmos and the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (FIAN) presented the project "Music of Pulsars." Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars of extremely high density. They have a rotation period and a specific modulation of the radiation coming to Earth. Pulsar signals can be used as time references and guides for satellites, and by converting their frequency into sound waves, one can […]
It was 2013. I started working at a software development company focused on private users. I heard various things, but the last thing I expected to see was what I came across: 32 unresolved virtual machines on a still outrageously expensive VDS, three 'free' Photoshop licenses, 2 Corel, paid and unused IP telephony capacity, and other minor details. At first […]
SQLite version 3.28.0 has been released, a lightweight database management system implemented as a shared library. The SQLite code is released into the public domain, meaning it can be used freely and without restrictions for any purpose. Financial support for SQLite developers is provided by a specially created consortium, which includes companies such as Adobe, Oracle, Mozilla, Bentley, and Bloomberg. Key changes: Window functions have been extended (window functions […]
One of the most anticipated features in Windows 10 has been and continues to be support for tabs in File Explorer. After many years of ignoring user requests for this, Microsoft appears to have decided to add this capability to the operating system. However, reports suggest that these won't just be tabs like in a browser. They will be entire sets of features that will add support […]
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.