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Friday evening is a great opportunity to reminisce about the golden childhood. I recently spoke with an acquaintance who is a game developer, and he seriously convinced me that the main reason for the current crisis in the gaming industry is the lack of memorable images. In the past, good games had characters that stuck in the user's memory — even visually. But now all games are faceless, indistinguishable, [...]
Fifteen years ago, on October 20, 2004, the first version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution - 4.10 'Warty Warthog' - was released. The project was founded by Mark Shuttleworth, a millionaire from South Africa, who participated in the development of Debian Linux and was inspired by the idea of creating a user-friendly desktop distribution with a predictable fixed development cycle. Several developers from the project were involved […]
A new release of the documentation assembler PzdcDoc 1.7 has been published, which comes as a Java Maven library and allows for easy integration into the development process for generating HTML5 documentation from a hierarchy of files in AsciiDoc format. The project is a fork of the AsciiDoctorJ toolkit, written in Java and distributed under the MIT license. Compared to the original AsciiDoctor, the following changes are noted: All necessary files […]
A vulnerability (CVE-2019-16278) has been discovered in the Nostromo HTTP server (nhttpd), allowing an attacker to remotely execute their code on the server by sending a specially crafted HTTP request. The issue will be fixed in release 1.9.7 (yet to be published). According to information from the Shodan search engine, the Nostromo HTTP server is used on approximately 2000 publicly accessible hosts. The vulnerability is caused by an error in the http_verify function, which bypasses access to the content […]
You requested real examples of using our enterprise SSDs and professional tests. We present to you a detailed review of our Kingston DC500R and DC500M SSDs from our partner Truesystems. The experts at Truesystems built a real server and emulated the truly real tasks faced by all enterprise-grade solid-state drives. Let's take a look at what they found! Kingston's 2019 model line […]
Plesk is a powerful and convenient universal tool for quickly and efficiently performing all daily operations for managing websites and web applications or web hosting. "6% of websites in the world are managed through the Plesk panel," says the platform's developer in their corporate blog on Habr. We present to you a brief overview of this convenient and probably the most popular hosting platform, the license for […]
In 2016, we published a translated article titled "The Complete Guide to Web Control Panels 2016: cPanel, Plesk, ISPmanager, and others." It is time to update the information about these 17 control panels. Read short descriptions of the panels themselves and their new features. cPanel The most popular multifunctional web console in the world, an industry standard. It is used by both website owners (as a control panel) and hosting providers […]
We discuss who is waiting abroad and answer uncomfortable questions about the relocation of IT specialists to England and Germany. At Nitro, we often receive resumes. Each one is carefully translated and sent to the client. And we mentally wish good luck to the person who has decided to change something in their life. Changes are always for the better, aren't they? 😉 Would you like to know who is waiting [...]
Referring to discrete graphics solutions from the Xe family as the first for Intel is somewhat misleading, as the company has previously attempted to establish itself in the discrete graphics market. In the 1990s, it launched gaming graphics cards with varying success, and in the early 2000s, it tried to re-enter this market segment, ultimately transforming the 'Larrabee project' into Xeon computing accelerators […]
A corrective release of Python 2.7.17 is now available, reflecting bug fixes made since March of this year. This new version also addresses three vulnerabilities in expat, httplib.InvalidURL, and urllib.urlopen. Python 2.7.17 is the second-to-last release in the Python 2.7 branch, which will reach its end of support in early 2020. Source: opennet.ru
The first stable release of the Pwnagotchi project, which develops a tool for hacking wireless networks presented as an electronic pet reminiscent of a Tamagotchi toy, has been announced. The primary prototype of the device is built on the Raspberry Pi Zero W board (firmware is available for download from an SD card), but it can also be used on other Raspberry Pi boards and in any Linux environment that includes […]
The developers of the Xfce desktop have announced the completion of the planning phase and dependency freeze, transitioning the project to the development stage of the new 4.16 branch. Development is expected to conclude in the middle of next year, after which three preliminary releases will be prepared before the final release. Notable upcoming changes include the discontinuation of optional GTK2 support and a user interface overhaul. If the version preparation […]