Author: ProHoster

The creation of a Russian reusable rocket has begun

The Scientific and Technical Council of the Foundation for Advanced Research (APF), according to RIA Novosti, decided to begin development of a flight demonstrator of the first Russian reusable launch vehicle. We are talking about the Krylo-SV project. It is a carrier approximately 6 meters long and approximately 0,8 meters in diameter. The rocket will receive a reusable liquid jet engine. The Krylo-SV carrier will belong to the light class. The dimensions of the demonstrator will be approximately [...]

Tim Cook: Apple resumes production as China gets coronavirus under control

Apple CEO Tim Cook told Fox Business that its Chinese suppliers are resuming production as "China gets the coronavirus under control." Technically, Cook is right—the growth in new coronavirus cases in China is actually slowing down, according to Chinese authorities. But new outbreaks of the epidemic are emerging in other regions of the world, including South Korea, Italy […]

iPad Pro could get Surface Type Cover-style trackpad keyboard

Recent rumors indicate that the accessory keyboard for the new iPad Pro may have a touchpad and will be generally similar to Microsoft's original Surface Type Cover. It seems that not only Apple’s design solutions are greedily copied by competitors, but the Cupertino company itself is ready to honestly recognize the successful solutions of its rivals, if the existence of such in the tablet market can still be […]

System Rescue Cd 6.1.0

On February 29, SystemRescueCd 6.1.0 was released, a popular live distribution based on Arch Linux for data recovery and working with partitions. Changes: The kernel has been updated to version 5.4.22 LTS. Tools for working with file systems btrfs-progs 5.4.1, xfsprogs 5.4.0 and xfsdump 3.1.9 have been updated. Keyboard layout settings have been fixed. Added kernel module and tools for Wireguard. Download (692 MiB) Source: […]

Introducing Kubernetes CCM (Cloud Controller Manager) for Yandex.Cloud

In continuation of the recent release of the CSI driver for Yandex.Cloud, we are publishing another Open Source project for this cloud - Cloud Controller Manager. CCM is required not only for the cluster as a whole, but also for the CSI driver itself. Details about its purpose and some implementation features are under the cut. Introduction Why is this? The motives that prompted us to develop CCM for Yandex.Cloud […]

DNS Lookup in Kubernetes

Note transl.: The DNS problem in Kubernetes, or more precisely the settings of the ndots parameter, is surprisingly popular, and has been for several years now. In another note on this topic, its author, a DevOps engineer from a large brokerage company in India, talks in a very simple and concise manner about what is useful for colleagues operating Kubernetes to know. One of the main […]

New storage technologies: will we have a breakthrough in 2020?

For several decades, progress in storage technology has been measured primarily in terms of storage capacity and data read/write speed. Over time, these evaluation parameters have been supplemented by technologies and methodologies that make HDD and SSD drives smarter, more flexible and easier to manage. Every year, drive manufacturers traditionally hint that the big data market will change, […]

FBI: Ransomware Victims Paid Over $140 Million to Attackers

At the recent international information security conference RSA 2020, among other things, representatives of the Federal Bureau of Investigation spoke. In their report, they said that over the past 6 years, victims of ransomware have paid over $140 million to attackers. According to the FBI, between October 2013 and November 2019, $144 was paid to attackers […]

Dark mode support added to the Play Store app

According to online sources, Google plans to add the ability to enable dark mode in the Play Store digital content store. Currently, this feature is available to a limited number of smartphone users running Android 10. Previously, Google implemented a system-wide dark mode in the Android 10 mobile OS. After enabling it in the device settings, applications and services such as […]