The release of the system programming language Rust 1.42, founded by the Mozilla project, has been published. The language focuses on safe memory management, provides automatic memory management, and provides the means to achieve high job parallelism while avoiding the use of a garbage collector and runtime. Rust's automatic memory management saves the developer from manipulating pointers and protects against issues that arise from […]
Quite a lot is already known about one of the most anticipated smartphones of this spring, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9. But there is one detail that haunts many fans of the Chinese brand - the processor of the new smartphone. According to the latest data, the device will receive a completely new processor manufactured by MediaTek. Previously, it was assumed that the smartphone would receive a Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G chipset, aimed at mid-range […]
Apple has indefinitely closed all of its 17 Apple Stores in Italy due to the ongoing spread of the coronavirus epidemic, Bloomberg reported, citing the company's Italian website. It should be noted that the closure of Apple stores was purely a formality, given that as of March 9, restrictive measures had already been taken in all regions of Italy. […]
The American aerospace company Blue Origin has completed construction of its own Mission Control Center at Cape Canaveral. It will be used by company engineers for future launches of the New Glenn rocket. In honor of this, Blue Origin's Twitter account posted a short video showing the interior of the Mission Control Center. In the video you can see a shiny space filled with rows of […]
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 [...]
