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On March 21, the audio player Audacious 4.0 was released. Audacious is a player focused on low resource consumption, a fork of BMP, and a successor to XMMS. The new release defaults to using Qt 5. GTK 2 remains an option for building, but all new features will be added to the Qt interface. The WinAmp-like interface on Qt was not completed by the release […]
The Calico networking plugin provides a wide range of network policies with a unified syntax to protect hosts on physical machines, virtual machines, and pods. These policies can be applied within a namespace or be global network policies applicable to host endpoints (to protect applications running directly on the host — the host can be either a physical server or a virtual machine) or to workloads […]
The release of the distributed version control system Git 2.26.0 is now available. Git is one of the most popular, reliable, and high-performance version control systems, offering flexible means for nonlinear development based on branching and merging. To ensure the integrity of history and resilience against 'backdating' changes, implicit hashing of the entire previous history is used in each commit, and digital verification is also possible […]
Google has published new information about the suspension of Chrome's new releases due to the temporary transition of some employees to remote work as a result of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus pandemic. It has been decided to skip the release of Chrome 82 entirely and proceed directly to the formation of the Chrome 83 branch. The development of new features will be moved to the Chrome 83 branch. The trunk/master branch is planned to be maintained for the foreseeable future.
Ahead of the Build 2020 conference, a mention of the modular operating system Windows Core has appeared again in the Geekbench test package database, which was previously seen in leaks. Microsoft has not officially confirmed its existence, but unofficial data has leaked. It is expected that Windows Core OS will be able to run on laptops, ultrabooks, dual-screen devices, HoloLens holographic headsets, and so on.
Support for the classic version of Microsoft Edge officially ended earlier this year when the Redmond corporation transitioned its web browser to Chromium. Recently, developers have begun releasing new versions of Edge Dev and Edge Canary, which improve the scrolling of large web pages. This enhancement is expected to make scrolling more responsive. These updates are already included in the Chromium project and in the Chrome build.
The parole board has denied the request for the early conditional release of Hans Reiser, the creator of the ReiserFS file system. A new application can only be submitted in five years, in 2025. Hans's children are now 18 and 20 years old, and they refuse to contact him. Recall that in 2008, Hans was sentenced to life imprisonment.
We continue the series of articles on Check Point Maestro solutions. We have already published three introductory articles: Check Point Maestro Hyperscale Network Security Typical Use Cases for Check Point Maestro A Typical Deployment Scenario for Check Point Maestro Now is the right time to move on to load testing. In this article, we will attempt to show how load balancing occurs between nodes, as well as explore the process.
Note: American DevOps engineer Sid Palas used the recent announcement from Google Cloud as a news hook to compare the cost of the Managed Kubernetes service (in various configurations) from the leading global cloud providers. An additional benefit of his work is the publication of the corresponding Jupyter Notebook, which allows (with minimal knowledge of Python) to adjust the calculations to suit one’s needs. TL;DR: Azure and Digital Ocean do not charge […]
One of the features of Google Chrome is that the browser displays only part of the URL in the address bar, rather than the full URL. The complete version is only shown when clicking on the address. This opens up broad opportunities for phishing and other abuses, as attackers can spoof the website address so that the user does not notice it. In some cases […]
The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 3.17 has been announced, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. CMake is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. It is notable for providing a simple scripting language, extensibility via modules, and minimal dependencies (no binding to […]
The release of the composite server Wayfire 0.4 has occurred, utilizing Wayland and allowing the formation of resource-efficient user interfaces with 3D effects in the style of 3D plugins for Compiz (screen switching via a 3D cube, spatial window arrangement, morphing effects while working with windows, etc.). Wayfire supports extensibility through plugins and offers a flexible configuration system. The project code is written in C++ and […]