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If you have already familiarized yourself with the previous three articles in this series, then you already know how to write full-fledged Telegram bots with a keyboard. In this article, we will learn to write a bot that will support a sequential dialogue. That is, the bot will ask you questions and wait for you to input any information. Depending on the data you provide, the bot […]
Get the current date in any programming language; this operation is equivalent to «Hello world!». The R language is no exception. In this article, we will explore how to work with dates using the basic syntax of R, as well as look at several useful packages that enhance its capabilities when dealing with dates: lubridate — a package that allows you to perform arithmetic calculations between dates; […]
Migrating from IBM Notes to Microsoft Exchange or Office 365 offers a significant number of benefits for an organization, but the migration project itself can seem daunting and it's not always clear where to start. Exchange does not include its own tools for complete migration or to establish coexistence between Notes and Exchange. In fact, carrying out certain migration and coexistence tasks is impossible without […]
The release of the web browser Firefox 81 has taken place. Additionally, an update for the 78.3.0 long-term support branch has been created. The formation of updates for Firefox 68.x has been discontinued, and users of this branch will be offered an automatic update to version 78.3. The Firefox 82 branch has entered beta testing, with a release scheduled for October 20. Key innovations include a new print preview interface that is noteworthy […]
The release of the lightweight Linux distribution Puppy 9.5 (FossaPup) has been announced, aimed at functioning on outdated hardware. The bootable ISO image is 409 MB (x86_64). The distribution is built using the package base of Ubuntu 20.04 and its own build toolset Woof-CE, which allows the use of package bases from other distributions as a foundation. Utilizing binary packages from Ubuntu significantly reduces the time required for release preparation and testing, and […]
Firefox 81 is now available. In Linux, issues with DMABuf and hardware acceleration of video playback have been resolved, while macOS has implemented hardware acceleration for VP9 format video. On devices with Adreno 5xx GPUs (except 505 and 506), WebRender has been enabled. Support for multimedia keys (hardware playback control buttons on keyboards and headsets) is now active, even when the browser window is not in […]
Instances where an inventor creates a complex electrical device from scratch, relying solely on their own research, are extremely rare. Typically, devices are born at the intersection of several technologies and standards developed by different people at different times. For example, consider a simple flash drive. This portable data storage device is based on non-volatile NAND memory and equipped with […]
The release of Sysmon version 12 was announced on September 17 on the Sysinternals page. In fact, new versions of Process Monitor and ProcDump were also released on that day. In this article, I will discuss a key and somewhat controversial addition in Sysmon version 12 — the event type with Event ID 24, which logs clipboard activity. Information from this […]
In their work, computer forensics experts frequently encounter cases where they need to quickly unlock a smartphone. For example, data from the phone is needed by investigators to understand the reasons behind a teenager's suicide. In another case, it may help track down a criminal group attacking long-haul drivers. Of course, there are also lighter stories — parents forgetting the password to a device, which has a video of […]
The SeaMonkey 2.53.4 internet application suite has been released, which combines a web browser, email client, RSS/Atom feed aggregation system, and WYSIWYG HTML page editor Composer within a single product. The pre-installed add-ons include the IRC client Chatzilla, a set of developer tools DOM Inspector, and the calendar-planner Lightning. The new release incorporates fixes and changes from the current Firefox codebase (SeaMonkey 2.53 is based on […]
The UBports project, which has taken over the development of the mobile platform Ubuntu Touch after it was abandoned by Canonical, has released the OTA-13 (over-the-air) firmware update for all officially supported smartphones and tablets that were equipped with Ubuntu-based firmware. The update has been prepared for smartphones including OnePlus One, Fairphone 2, Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 7 2013, and Meizu […]
Hello everyone. This article is written for those who are still torn between choosing virtualization platforms and after reading the article from the series ‘We installed Proxmox and everything is great, 6 years uptime without a single downtime’. But after installing one or another boxed solution, the question arises: how can we tweak this and that so that monitoring is more […]