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Samsung Electronics has introduced new semiconductor products designed for use in self-driving and electric vehicles. The solutions were demonstrated as part of the Samsung Foundry Forum (SFF) 2019 event in Munich (Germany). The new chips are designed for the automotive industry in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Samsung, in particular, showed innovative platforms that combine key technical […]
Zabbix is a monitoring system. Like any other system, it faces three main problems of all monitoring systems: collecting and processing data, storing history, and cleaning it. The stages of receiving, processing and recording data take time. Not much, but for a large system this can result in large delays. The storage problem is a data access issue. They […]
This article will reveal some non-obvious things related to the use of wildcards when copying, the ambiguous behavior of the cp command when copying, as well as ways to correctly copy a huge number of files without skipping or crashing. Let's say we need to copy everything from the /source folder to the /target folder. The first thing that comes to mind is: cp /source/* /target Let’s fix it right away […]
Creating a backup application that works on any distribution is no easy task. To ensure Veeam Agent for Linux works on distributions from Red Hat 6 and Debian 6, to OpenSUSE 15.1 and Ubuntu 19.04, you have to solve a range of problems, especially considering that the software product includes a kernel module. The article was created based on materials from a speech at [...]
Hello, Habr, would you like a little Sunday relaxation? Read my poems, they will cheer you up, and some will make you think. Modern programmer I am a programmer who has barely realized the whole essence of programming offices. I am a middle again at twenty-two, And at twenty-one I was a senior. Addition The work is going on, and, no matter how you look at it, I will be initiated into the craft. On […]
Usually I write about IT - on various, more or less, highly specialized topics like SAN/storage systems or FreeBSD, but now I’m trying to speak on someone else’s field, so to many readers my further reasoning will seem quite controversial or even naive. However, this is how it is, and therefore I am not offended. However, as a direct consumer of knowledge […]
I would like, without going into technical details, to touch a little on the question of whether neural networks can achieve anything significant in art, literature, and whether this is creativity. Technical information is easy to find, and there are well-known applications as examples. Here is only an attempt to understand the very essence of the phenomenon; everything that is written here is far from […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
It looks like Quake 2 RTX won't be the only re-release to which NVIDIA will add real-time ray tracing effects. According to the job listing, the company is hiring for a studio that will specialize in adding RTX effects to re-releases of other classic computer games. As follows from the job description spotted by journalists, NVIDIA has launched a promising new program for re-releasing old games: “We […]