Blog Section
Radeon Open Compute is a free set of drivers, libraries, and utilities for implementing OpenCL and machine learning technologies for platforms based on AMD graphics cards. It is developed by AMD. The set includes the rock-dkms kernel module, HCC and HIP compilers, and the rocm-clang-ocl version, libraries to support OpenCL, as well as libraries and sample sets for implementing basic machine learning algorithms. In the new release: […]
A significant release of the specialized Tor Browser 10 has been formed, which transitions to the ESR branch of Firefox 78. The browser focuses on ensuring anonymity, security, and privacy, with all traffic redirected only through the Tor network. Direct access through the current system's standard network connection is impossible, which prevents tracking the user's actual IP address (in the event of a browser hack, attackers may gain access to […]
The release of Samba 4.13.0 has been presented, continuing the development of the Samba 4 branch with a fully implemented domain controller and Active Directory service, compatible with the Windows 2000 implementation and capable of servicing all supported Microsoft Windows client versions, including Windows 10. Samba 4 is a multifunctional server product that also provides an implementation of a file server, print service, and identity server (winbind). Key changes […]
The Wine project has released the vkd3d 1.2 package, which implements Direct3D 12 working through the translation of calls to the Vulkan graphics API. The package includes libvkd3d libraries implementing Direct3D 12, libvkd3d-shader with a translator for shader models 4 and 5, and libvkd3d-utils with functions to simplify the porting of Direct3D 12 applications, as well as a set of demonstration samples, including the glxgears port […]
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 […]