Author: Yuri Gagarin

A Beginner's Guide: Creating DevOps Chains Using Open Source Tools

Creating your first DevOps pipeline in five steps for beginners. DevOps has become a remedy for slow, fragmented, and various problematic development processes. However, basic knowledge of DevOps is necessary. This article will cover concepts like the DevOps pipeline and how to create it in five steps. It is not a complete guide, but a 'template' that can be expanded. Let's start with the history. […]

Today, many popular add-ons for Firefox have stopped working due to certificate issues

Hello, dear Habr users! I want to warn you that this is my first publication, so please let me know about any issues, typos, or anything else that you notice. This morning, as usual, I turned on my laptop and started leisurely surfing in my favorite Firefox (release 66.0.3 x64). Suddenly, the morning ceased to be leisurely—at one unfortunate moment, a message popped up stating […]

Google Chrome will change the behavior of the 'Back' button

As the world's number one browser, Chrome is constantly evolving, with Google always seeking ways to enhance the user experience. The security and performance levels of the application are also improving across all platforms. Recently, the company started working on a new feature that will prevent websites from blocking the 'Back' button. As is well known, there are pages that make it difficult to return in the browser […]

Code substitution in Picreel and Alpaca Forms projects led to the compromise of 4,684 websites

Security researcher Willem de Groot reported that in a recent infrastructure breach, attackers were able to inject malicious code into the web analytics system Picreel and the open platform for generating interactive web forms Alpaca Forms. The JavaScript code substitution led to the compromise of 4,684 websites using these systems on their pages (1,249 — Picreel and 3,435 — Alpaca Forms). The injected […]

Google has equipped Chromebooks with Linux support

At the recent Google I/O developer conference, Google announced that this year's Chromebooks will support the Linux operating system. This option existed before, but now the process is much simpler and available 'out of the box'. Last year, Google started providing the capability to run Linux on some laptops with […]

Cable TV networks for the little ones. Part 4: The digital signal component

We all know that the world of technology is digital or striving to be. Digital broadcasting is not a new phenomenon, but if you haven't been specifically interested in it, the technologies associated with it may come as a surprise. The content of the series of articles Part 1: General architecture of the CATV network Part 2: Composition and form of the signal Part 3: The analog component of the signal […]

Seven Unexpected Bash Variables

Continuing the series of notes on lesser-known bash functions, I will show you seven variables you might not be aware of. 1) PROMPT_COMMAND You may already know how to manipulate the prompt to display various useful information, but not everyone knows that each time the prompt is displayed, a shell command can be executed. In fact, many complex prompt manipulators […]

Russian Storage System AERODISK: load testing. We push the IOPS to the limit

Hello everyone! As promised, we are publishing the results of the load test for the domestically produced storage system – AERODISK ENGINE N2. In the previous article, we conducted crash tests on the storage system and the results were positive (meaning, we did not break the storage system). The crash test results can be found HERE. In the comments to the previous article, suggestions were made about […]

Intel will continue to use the 14nm process technology for desktop processors for several more years.

The current 14nm manufacturing process will remain in operation at least until 2021. In Intel's presentations about the transition to new technologies, any processors and products are mentioned, but not desktop ones. Mass production of Intel products based on 7nm technology will not begin before 2022. All engineering resources will be shifted from the 14nm process to the 7nm process, and the 10nm process will […]

OpenIndiana 2019.04 and OmniOS CE r151030 continue the development of OpenSolaris

The release of the free distribution of OpenIndiana 2019.04 is now available, which has replaced the binary distribution of OpenSolaris, whose development was discontinued by Oracle. OpenIndiana provides users with a working environment built on a fresh snapshot of the Illumos project codebase. The development of OpenSolaris technologies continues through the Illumos project, which enhances the kernel, network stack, file systems, drivers, as well as the basic set of user system utilities […]

Docker container for managing HP servers via ILO

You may be wondering — why use Docker here? What’s wrong with accessing the ILO web interface and configuring your server as needed? I thought the same when I was given a couple of old, unused servers that I needed to reinstall (what is called reprovisioning). The servers themselves are located across the ocean, and the only access is the web […]

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