Category: Blog

AMD is able to get rid of the businessmen who make money by sorting processors for overclocking

The technology of mass production of processors previously provided great scope for those who wanted to get more performance for less money. Processor chips of different models of the same family were “cut” from common silicon wafers, their ability to operate at higher or lower frequencies was determined by testing and sorting. Overclocking made it possible to cover the difference in frequency between the younger and older models, since inexpensive processors are always […]

Convenient database management system

I would like to share my experience in the evolution of using database systems at the online language school GLASHA. The school was founded in 2012 and at the beginning of its work all 12 students studied there, so there were no problems with managing the schedule and payments. However, with the growth, development and emergence of new students, the question of choosing a base system [...]

Developer Tools Panel on InterSystems IRIS

A panel of additional tools for monitoring and investigating errors in applications and integration solutions on the InterSystems IRIS data platform, the Ensemble integration platform and the Caché DBMS, or the story of another bicycle. In this article I want to talk about the application that, along with standard administration tools, I use every day when monitoring applications and integration solutions on the InterSystems IRIS platform and […]

Getting rid of "vk.com/away.php" or following the links of a healthy person

By clicking on the links posted on VKontakte, you will notice that, as in other social networks, first there is a transition to a “safe” link, after which the social network decides whether the user should be allowed further or not. Most attentive people noticed the half-second appearance of “vk.com/away.php” in the address bar of the browser, but, of course, did not attach any importance to it. Background One day, a certain programmer, having completed [...]

Wolfram Mathematica in Geophysics

We thank the blog author Anton Ekimenko for his report Introduction This note was written in the wake of the Wolfram Russian Technology Conference and contains a summary of the report I gave. The event took place in June in St. Petersburg. Considering that I work a block from the conference site, I could not help but attend this event. In 2016 and […]

Tizen Studio 3.3 Development Environment Release

The release of the Tizen Studio 3.3 development environment is available, which replaced the Tizen SDK and provides a set of tools for creating, building, debugging and profiling mobile applications using the Web API and Tizen Native API. The environment is based on the latest release of the Eclipse platform, has a modular architecture and, at the installation stage or through a special package manager, allows […]

FreeBSD fixed 6 vulnerabilities

FreeBSD has fixed six vulnerabilities that could allow you to escalate your system privileges or gain access to kernel data. The problems are fixed in updates 12.0-RELEASE-p8, 11.2-RELEASE-p12 and 11.3-RELEASE-p1. CVE-2019-5606 - An error in the close call handler for file descriptors created through the posix_openpt system call can lead to writes to already freed areas of kernel memory (write-after-free). A local attacker could […]

Russians will be registered - it is planned to create a unified register of individuals

The Russian government introduced a bill to the State Duma providing for the creation of a unified information resource for data on individuals. It will contain all the information - full name, marital status, date and place of birth and death, gender, identity data, SNILS, Taxpayer Identification Number, health insurance information, registration with the employment service, presence of military duty, and so on. Allegedly, the operator of the system will be [...]

Blizzard character designer: Sigma is barefoot because that's how they keep patients in mental hospitals

Blizzard character designer Qiu Fang explained to fans an interesting detail about Sigma's appearance. Fen said bare feet are part of his background. Patients in psychiatric hospitals are not allowed shoes. “We decided to leave Sigma's feet bare to recreate the hospital look. In mental hospitals, patients are not allowed to wear shoes because they could injure themselves with the laces. Despite […]

Rumors about a remake of Red Dead Redemption and story DLC turned out to be false - they were invented for the sake of experiment

At the end of last week, rumors began to spread across the Internet that Rockstar Games was working on a remake of Red Dead Redemption and a story addition to Red Dead Redemption 2. Some details looked quite plausible and were supported by earlier information from other sources, but it turned out that gamers were deceived . The user who published this information admitted that he made it up for the sake of an experiment. User […]