It’s rare when an author concedes that a change made by an adaptation has improved on their work. And George R.R. Martin has all the more reason to be cagey after some questionable decisions made during the final seasons of Game of Thrones—back when that series ran out of books to adapt. Nonetheless, Martin has been effusive in his praise for Thrones’ new prequel series, House of the Dragon. Admittedly, the author had a hand in turning his fictional history of the Targaryen family, Fire & Blood, into the television show, which he co-created with writer Ryan Condal....

“Well, they have to be fun,” says Greg Nicotero, special effects legend, co-executive producer of The Walking Dead, and showrunner of Shudder’s Creepshow series. “My criteria is, when the episode is over, I want the viewer to be like, ‘Oh my God, that was so much fun. I didn’t expect that. I didn’t see it coming, but I had a great time.’” Fortunately for Creepshow fans everywhere, that is exactly what the first season of Shudder’s revival offered....

As far as Syfy titles go, Z Nation was a remarkable hit. The show did well enough to make it five seasons, morphing from something that straddled the line between campy fun and a character study with surprising depth considering its origins. Z Nation was never going to reach the ratings heights of The Walking Dead, but unlike the series it effectively mockbusted, it was fun, inventive, and never afraid of being funny in between ominous mentions of the events of the “Black Summer”....

Thus far, the actor has chosen mostly supporting roles in period pieces, and has seemingly made sure to pick parts that are challenges commensurate with his experience. The result has been an early acting career of choice films under talented directors that build a solid foundation for a bright film future. For absolutely no reason at all, let’s talk about what Styles’ burgeoning film career has looked like so far, and what it will look like moving forward....

After 2017’s It became the highest opening horror movie of all time two Septembers ago, it was a forgone conclusion that we would soon be watching an It Chapter Two. And unlike most sequels, it made creative sense. By adapting Stephen King’s ponderous tome about the childhood terrors and traumas we suppress, director Andy Muschietti wisely cut the nearly 1,200-page book in half. Presented in print as a back-and-forth dialogue between childhood and adulthood, Muschietti opted to tell the story (mostly) chronologically and focus simply on childhood in 2017....

Benchley, who had always had an interest in the water and in sharks, came up with the idea for Jaws when he read about a fisherman who caught a 4,500-pound great white off the coast of Long Island in 1964. Benchley had written one book, a travel memoir called Time and a Ticket, but had spent most of the ’60s as a reporter and editor for outlets like The Washington Post and Newsweek before taking a job as a speechwriter for President Lyndon B....

“Lots of directors, they adapt stage plays into movies,” Anderson says. “But I don’t go to the live theater very much. I play video games…so I always imagined that I would do other video game adaptations.” There was a time when Anderson’s desire to adapt video games felt like little more than wishful thinking. While it currently feels like every video game franchise is scheduled to be adapted into a movie or TV series, that wasn’t always the case....

Nativity! is the story of a primary school teacher (Freeman) who tries to put on a Hollywood-worthy nativity play with help from his young-at-heart teaching assistant (Wootton). Confetti, which stars a host of British comedy talent including Julia Davis, Jessica Stevenson, Olivia Colman and Robert Webb (those last two’s nude scenes proved controversial, as Webb describes from 03:25 in this Graham Norton interview), is a wedding competition in which Freeman played one of three grooms competing with their bride to win a house....

For Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City director Johannes Roberts, the chance to reboot this franchise is less about correcting past mistakes than making the most out of the opportunity to explore what makes the games different. “I had a great time with those movies,” Roberts says of the Resident Evil live-action films. “But as I’ve got older, I’m much more of a gamer than I’ve ever been…I approached this film from a gaming perspective....

Like with the game’s Skyrim-based Greymoor chapter, nostalgia permeates every aspect of Blackwood, including the setup of its story. Mehrunes Dagon, Oblivion‘s diabolical antagonist, takes center stage once again as the chapter’s main villain, but things aren’t as they seem. “The story is about a deal with a devil,” ESO creative director Rich Lambert explains. “When you first arrive in Leyawiin, you’re asked to investigate a threat to a number of Imperial counselors who used to council the Longhouse Emperors....

Even so, Netflix is now banking on recapturing that singular spirit with an upcoming live-action adaptation. However, Cowboy Bebop’s iconic status is not lost on showrunner André Nemec, who was introduced to the anime when, on a family visit, his brother sat him down and had him watch the episodes, all of which he had saved to DVR. “I was hooked,” Nemec says. “It’s poetic, it’s beautiful, it’s artful, it’s funny, it’s violent at times....

Significant growth has been visible in the last decade when it comes to online learning and certifications. Due to the pandemic, people were forced to improve their skills through online media. Even before the pandemic, the markets for online education were forecasted to reach $350 billion by 2025. It is noteworthy that skills are more valuable than degrees. But a certification from a trusted authority will put you in a better place....

Why Jenkins Pipeline? Continuous Delivery (CD) is an essential part of DevOps Lifecycle. It makes sure that the software/application developers are creating is always production-ready. For this to happen, whenever the code gets updated, it needs to be built, tested, and deployed continuously. This is where Jenkins Pipeline comes into the picture. In DevOps, Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) is achieved through Jenkins Pipeline. Using Jenkins Pipeline for CD helps to deliver the software with faster and frequent releases....

Hosts files act as the local DNS servers. But before going further, let’s check out this incident involving Jack. Jack was a website admin at a regional eCommerce store in Toronto, Canada. He was asked to ensure the transfer to a different web host goes smoothly. He did it perfectly, and the site was live soon after DNS changes were made. The only issue was missing images from a significant number of products....

IPv6 has a performance advantage over IPv4. It can help to decrease the page load time from 25ms to 300ms. An interesting report by SUCURI shows 16% of the top 1000 sites in the world support IPv6 and 7% of the top 1 million sites. If not already, it would be good to enable on your site. Pre-requisite – you have to ensure IPv6 is enabled on the OS level....

Chef is a configuration management tool based on ruby. It is used to automate the management of configurations across all the nodes in the cluster and maintain consistency. There are three major components of Chef. Chef server Workstation Nodes All the configurations are managed from workstations and later pushed on to the chef-server. Chef server is the centralized store of all the infrastructure configurations. Knife is a command-line tool present on a workstation that is used to interact with Chef Server....

Changing WebLogic domain name is possible with modifying certain files under your domain. This, I tested in a development environment and worked well for me. In this exercise – I have renamed from base_domain to new_domain Take complete backup of your domain Copy old domain name folder to new domain name Search all files which contain base_domain in newly copied folder Modify base_domain to new_domain in all above files. You can use sed to modify or manually you can do one by one....

Learn how to safeguard yours. Let’s face it: when it comes to the topic of web security, most of us prefer to live in denial. “I’m too small to be hacked,” “I know I’m not that unlucky,” “We’ll see about it when I have more time” — there’s no end to the excuses we can cook up to evade the drudged, tedious toil of hardening your website security. Yes, even the thought of creating backups is enough to send us to sleep....

If your home or office’s ISP has slow nameservers or your server is performing lots of lookups, then you need a local caching DNS server. How will a caching DNS server help me? A caching DNS server works by performing all the DNS queries that your system makes and then saving, or caching, the results in memory. Once that the results are cached in memory any time that you make a duplicate request for a domain, the result will get served almost instantaneously from memory....

The battle for major Smartphone OSes has almost settled with the two prime candidates, Android & iOS: While the second half of 2021 had started to witness a gradual shift in favor of the Cupertino giant, a majority is nowhere on the horizon. iOS is still miles behind Android. And that will be the case for many years to come. In addition, it would be interesting to know that over 20% of iPhone users are planning a switch to Android....