Heading: Blog

Safe update of Zimbra Collaboration Suite

It just so happened that system administrators are always suspicious of everything new. Literally everything, from new server platforms to software updates, is perceived with caution, exactly as long as there is no first practical experience of use and positive feedback from colleagues from other enterprises. It is understandable, because when literally […]

How "correct" answers of respondents can distort the results of the survey beyond recognition

When conducting research, much attention is paid to collecting data, so when respondents’ answers are collected, they are a priori accepted as correct, and the report based on such answers is considered objective. However, situations often arise when a more detailed examination of individual responses reveals clear misunderstandings by respondents of the wording of the survey or the instructions for the questions. 1. Misunderstanding of professional terms or certain words. […]

ISPsystem, forgive and farewell! Why and how we wrote our server control panel

Hello! We are "Hosting Technologies" and 5 years ago we launched VDSina - the first vds hosting created specifically for developers. We strive to make it convenient, like DigitalOcean, but with Russian support, payment methods and servers in Russia. But DigitalOcean is not only reliability and price, it is also a service. Software from ISPsystem turned out to be a rope that tied us […]

Microsoft opened the Quantum Development Kit code for the development of quantum algorithms

Microsoft has announced the open source of the Quantum Development Kit (QDK), aimed at developing applications for quantum computers. In addition to previously published examples of quantum applications and libraries, the source code for the compiler for the Q# language, runtime components, a quantum simulator, a LanguageServer handler for integration with integrated development environments, as well as additions to the Visual Studio […]

Epic Games donates $1.2 million to Blender and develops products for Linux

Epic Games, which develops the Unreal Engine game engine, donated $1.2 million to the development of the free 3D modeling system Blender. Funds will be allocated in stages over three years. The money is planned to be spent on expanding the staff of developers, attracting new participants, improving coordination of work in the project and improving the quality of the code. The donation is part of the Epic MegaGrants program, which […]

As it seemed

The director silently rustled his papers, as if he was looking for something. Sergei looked at him indifferently, narrowing his eyes slightly, and thought only about ending this meaningless conversation as quickly as possible. The strange tradition of exit interviews was invented by HR people, who, as part of the currently fashionable benchmarking, observed such a technique at some particularly effective company, in their opinion. The settlement has already been received, a few things […]

Q4OS 3.8 distribution release

Q4OS 3.8 is now available, based on the Debian package base and shipped with the KDE Plasma 5 and Trinity desktops. The distribution is positioned as undemanding in terms of hardware resources and offering a classic desktop design. The boot image size is 669 MB (x86_64, i386). Q4OS 3.8 is classified as a long-term support release, for which updates will be […]

Unofficial Telegram client MobonoGram 2019 turned out to be a Trojan

The MobonoGram 2019 application, positioned as an unofficial alternative client of the Telegram messenger and with more than 100 thousand installations, has been removed from the Google Play catalog. The reason for the removal was the discovery that the program contained Trojan code Android.Fakeyouwon, which carried out malicious actions. The program provides basic messaging functionality, but also silently runs several automatically running background services on the device that […]

Implantation in the complete absence of teeth, as a result of an untimely visit to the dentist

Dear friends, I am glad to welcome you again! We have already discussed a lot on the topic of wisdom teeth, what types there are, how they are removed, if it doesn’t hurt, it doesn’t mean that everything is fine, there’s nothing to do in the maxillofacial area, much less “pull them out.” I am very pleased that many of you liked the articles, but today I will continue the topic of implantation. All […]

In Cyberpunk 2077 it is forbidden to kill children and story NPCs

A Reddit forum user under the nickname masoncool4566 posted a screenshot of correspondence with the official Cyberpunk 2077 Twitter account. A player asked a question regarding the freedom to commit violence in the upcoming CD Projekt RED project. Representatives of the studio explained who cannot be killed during the passage. The screenshot shows the following response from the developers: “Greetings, in Cyberpunk 2077 you cannot attack children and non-player characters, […]

PowerDNS Recursor 4.2 release and DNS flag day 2020 initiative

After a year and a half of development, the release of the caching DNS server PowerDNS Recursor 4.2, which is responsible for recursive name resolution, was presented. PowerDNS Recursor is built on the same code base as PowerDNS Authoritative Server, but PowerDNS recursive and authoritative DNS servers are developed through different development cycles and are released as separate products. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The new version eliminates [...]

How to buy an air ticket as cheaply as possible or hit the monitoring on dynamic pricing

How to buy an air ticket at the most profit? Any more or less advanced Internet user knows such options as buying in advance, searching for routes with transfers hidden-city ticketing, monitoring charter flights, searching in incognito browser mode, using airline mileage cards, all sorts of bonuses and promo codes. A complete list of life hacks was once made by Tinkoff Magazine , I will not repeat myself. Now answer the question - how often [...]