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A project decision or startup funding can depend on just one presentation. This is especially catchy when a professional has to speak, who could spend this time on development. If your company does not have separate managers who are involved in marketing and sales, you can master the speech pyramid, the method of non-directive influence on the audience, and the rules for developing business presentations in just an hour. […]
In the previous article: Yealink Meeting Server - a comprehensive solution for video conferencing, we described the functionality of the first version of Yealink Meeting Server (hereinafter referred to as YMS), its capabilities and structure. As a result, we received many requests from you to test this product, some of which have grown into complex projects to create or upgrade video conferencing infrastructure. The most common scenario was to replace the old […]
After the publication of previous articles, and especially “Wisdom teeth - they cannot be removed,” I received several comments with the question - “And if the 7th tooth was once removed, will the 8th one take its place?” or “Is it possible to pull out the 8th (horizontal) tooth and put it in the place of the 7th, which is missing?” So, do it the way you imagine [...]
This article is a continuation of a series of publications dedicated to the Yealink Meeting Server (YMS) video conferencing solution. In the previous Yealink Meeting Server 2.0 article - new video conferencing capabilities, we described a significant breakthrough in the functionality of the solution: we added our own conference recording service integrated into YMS a new type of license - Broadcast, which allows you to optimize the cost of asymmetric conferences, integration with […]
The 53rd edition of the ranking of the 500 most high-performance computers in the world has been presented. In the new release, the top ten remained unchanged, with the exception of the promotion to fifth place in the ranking of the new Frontera cluster, produced by Dell for the Texas Computer Center. The cluster runs CentOS Linux 7 and includes more than 448 thousand cores based on a Xeon Platinum 8280 28C 2.7GHz. Total […]
*The Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, or the Frequency Illusion, is a cognitive distortion in which recently learned information, reappearing after a short period of time, is perceived as unusually frequently repeated. There are “bugs” all around... The “software” of each of us is crammed with “bugs” - cognitive distortions. The question arises: how can a person perceive reality without them? Can human consciousness, in principle, be free from [...]
This year will mark the first graduation of students from the corporate master's program of JetBrains and ITMO University. At the beginning of June, the defense of master's diplomas took place. All students successfully presented the results of their work and received a master's degree. To learn how to report on the results of their master’s thesis, each student went through 5-6 pre-defenses: first, they had to learn how to talk about the results in 30 minutes, […]
After six months of development, the release of the cross-platform framework Qt 5.13 has been prepared. The source code for Qt components is licensed under LGPLv3 and GPLv2, Qt developer tools such as Qt Creator and qmake, and some modules are licensed under GPLv3. Main innovations: Full support for the “Qt for WebAssembly” module (previously experimental) has been provided, which allows you to compile graphical applications […]
A new, significant release of the SVG rasterization library - resvg - has been released. Main changes: Completely new implementation of text rendering: Almost the entire stack from character to Bezier curve is now implemented in Rust: font matching and fallback, TrueType parsing, arrangement of glyph clusters according to SVG rules (SVG text layout). The exception is text shaping, for which HarfBuzz is used. […]
Greetings! I am adding a short article on the topic of choosing an entry-level compact home oscilloscope for work and hobbies. Why will we talk about pocket and compact ones - because these are the most budget options. Desktop oscilloscopes are more bulky, functional devices, and, as a rule, quite expensive models ($200-400 or more) with 4 channels with many functions. And here […]
After a year of development and six preliminary releases, the first stable release of the new branch of the MariaDB 10.4 DBMS has been prepared, within which a branch of MySQL is being developed that maintains backward compatibility and is distinguished by the integration of additional storage engines and advanced capabilities. Support for the new branch will be provided for 5 years, until June 2024. The development of MariaDB is overseen by the independent MariaDB Foundation in accordance with […]
Gabor Nagy works modestly and quietly on his original brainchild, he doesn’t often please with releases, but this is exactly what I want to share with you (the highlight is at the end). EQUINOX-3D is a modest, minimalistic 3D modeling, animation, photorealistic rendering package that runs on Linux, Mac OS X and even SGI IRIX. In the new version v0.9.9 EQUINOX-3D: Binary file format […]
