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I’ll tell you about a funny situation that happened to me, and how to become a contributor to a famous project. Not long ago I was tinkering with an idea: booting Linux directly from UEFI... The idea is not new and there are a number of manuals on this topic. One of them can be viewed here Actually, my long-standing attempts to resolve this issue resulted in [...]
On the website of the South Korean Intellectual Property Office (KIPO), according to network sources, Samsung's patent documentation for the next smartphone has been published. This time we are talking about a device in a classic monoblock case without a flexible display. A feature of the device should be a triple front camera. Judging by the patent illustrations, it will be located in an oblong hole in […]
On October 12, the Free Software Foundation, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Creative Commons, Document Foundation and other human rights organizations are celebrating an international day against technological copyright protection (DRM) that restricts user freedom. According to supporters of the action, the user should be able to fully control their devices, from cars and medical devices to phones and computers. This year the creators of the event […]
Hello, Khabro residents! We decided that it was right not only to sell books, but also to share with them. A review of the books themselves was here. In the post itself there is an excerpt from “Attention Deficit Disorder in Geeks” and the book itself. The main idea of the book "Weapons of the South" is extremely simple and at the same time very strange. What would have happened if during the Civil War the North had […]
Four out of five QA applicants want to learn how to work with automated tests. Not all companies can fulfill such desires of manual testers during working hours. Wrike held an automation school for employees and realized this desire for many. I participated in this school precisely as a QA student. I learned how to work with Selenium and now independently support a certain number of autotests with virtually no […]
Larry Wall, the creator of Perl and the project's "benevolent dictator for life," has approved a request to rename Perl 6 Raku, ending the renaming controversy. The name Raku was chosen as a derivative of Rakudo, the name of the Perl 6 compiler. It is already familiar to developers and does not overlap with other projects in search engines. In his commentary, Larry quoted a phrase from […]
The Manjaro community has released a new major version of the Pamac package manager, developed specifically for this distribution. Pamac includes the libpamac library for working with main repositories, AURs and local packages, console utilities with “human syntax” like pamac install and pamac update, the main Gtk frontend and an additional Qt frontend, which, however, is not yet fully ported on the Pamac API […]
Whatever you say, knowledge management (KM) still remains such a strange animal among IT specialists: It seems clear that knowledge is power (c), but usually this means some kind of personal knowledge, one’s own experience, completed trainings, pumped up skills. Enterprise-wide knowledge management systems are rarely thought about, sluggishly, and, basically, they do not understand what value [...]
Raymond Hill, the author of the uBlock Origin and uMatrix systems for blocking unwanted content, was faced with the impossibility of publishing the next test release (1.22.5rc1) of the uBlock Origin ad blocker in the Chrome Web Store catalog. The publication was rejected, citing as a reason the inclusion in the catalog of “multi-purpose add-ons” that include functions unrelated to the main stated purpose. According […]
Eric Shander has been fired as Red Hat's chief financial officer without paying the $4 million bonus set before IBM acquired Red Hat. The decision was made by the Red Hat board of directors and approved by IBM. Violation of Red Hat operating standards is cited as a reason for dismissal without pay. For more detailed information about the reasons for dismissal, the press secretary […]
Hi all. Six months have passed since KnowledgeConf 2019, during which time I managed to speak at two more conferences and give lectures on the topic of knowledge management in two large IT companies. Communicating with colleagues, I realized that in IT it is still possible to talk about knowledge management at the “beginner” level, or rather, just to realize that knowledge management is necessary for anyone [...]
A week after the end of IgroMir 2019, the French publisher Ubisoft decided to share its impressions of this event. The event featured a lot of cosplay, energetic Just Dance, screenings of Ghost Recon: Breakpoint and Watch Dogs: Legion, as well as other activities that were designed to give visitors a lot of bright and warm emotions. The video begins by showing various cosplayers who were photographed and […]
