A new release of the APT package manager has been released, number 2.0. Changes: Commands that accept package names now support wildcards. Their syntax is aptitude-like. Attention! Masks and regular expressions are no longer supported! Templates are used instead. New "apt satisfy" and "apt-get satisfy" commands to satisfy dependencies that have been specified. Pins could be specified by source packages by adding src: […]
On March 12, it was announced the release of a new version of the Tails 4.4 distribution, based on Debian GNU/Linux. Tails is distributed as a live image for USB flash drives and DVDs. The distribution aims to maintain privacy and anonymity when using the Internet by redirecting traffic through Tor, leaves no traces on the computer unless otherwise specified, and allows the use of the latest cryptographic utilities. […]
ALT Linux developers have announced the release of quarterly “starter builds” of the distribution. “Starter builds” are small live builds with various graphical environments, plus server, rescue and cloud; available for free download and unlimited use under GPL terms, easy to customize and generally intended for experienced users; the kit is updated quarterly. They do not pretend to have complete solutions, [...]
The fourth version of OpenShift was released relatively recently. The current version 4.3 has been available since the end of January and all the changes in it are either something completely new that was not in the third version, or a major update of what appeared in version 4.1. Everything that we will tell you now needs to be known, understood and taken into account by those who work [...]
In the previous post about PDUs, we said that some racks have an ATS installed - automatic transfer of reserve. But in fact, in a data center, ATSs are placed not only in the rack, but along the entire electrical path. In different places they solve different problems: in the main distribution boards (MSB) the AVR switches the load between input from the city and […]
One of the internal virtualization racks. We got confused with the color indication of the cables: orange means odd power input, green means even. Here we most often talk about “large equipment” - chillers, diesel generator sets, main switchboards. Today we will talk about “little things” - sockets in racks, also known as Power Distribution Unit (PDU). Our data centers have more than 4 thousand racks filled with IT equipment, so […]
The EGX Rezzed event, dedicated to indie games, has been postponed to the summer due to the COVID-2019 pandemic. According to ReedPop, new dates and locations for the EGX Rezzed show, which has been set for March 26-28 at Tobacco Dock in London, will be announced soon. “Having constantly monitored the situation surrounding COVID-19 over the past few weeks and after many hours of internal […]
The Yandex company, according to RBC, distributed a letter among its employees with a proposal to switch to remote work from home. The reason is the spread of a new coronavirus, which has already infected about 140 thousand people around the world. “We recommend that all office employees who can work remotely work from home from Monday. Offices will be open, but we advise you to come to the office [...]
The annual conference for programmers and developers, Microsoft Build, fell victim to the coronavirus: the event will not be held in its traditional format this year. The first Microsoft Build conference was organized in 2011. Since then, the event has been held annually in various cities in the United States, including San Francisco (California) and Seattle (Washington). The conference was traditionally attended by thousands [...]
The studio inXile Entertainment from the Wasteland 3 page on the Fig crowdfunding service website announced the imminent start of beta testing of the game, in which only investors will be able to take part. Tests will begin on March 17 at 19:00 Moscow time. Everyone who donated at least $3 to the creation of Wasteland 25 will receive an email with a Steam code to the beta client (alpha participants will be allowed […]
Experts from Kaspersky Lab, which works in the field of information security, have identified two new malicious programs that, acting in pairs, can steal cookies stored in mobile versions of browsers and social networking applications. Cookie theft allows attackers to take control of victims' social media accounts in order to send messages on their behalf. The first malware is a Trojan program […]
The NGINX Unit 1.16 application server was released, within which a solution is being developed to ensure the launch of web applications in various programming languages (Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Go, JavaScript/Node.js and Java). NGINX Unit can simultaneously run multiple applications in different programming languages, the launch parameters of which can be changed dynamically without the need to edit configuration files and restart. Code […]
