At the beginning of October, the Wi-Fi Alliance announced a new version of the Wi-Fi standard – Wi-Fi 6. Its release is scheduled for the end of 2019. The developers changed their naming approach — replacing familiar constructs like 802.11ax with single digits. Let's take a look at what else is new. / Wikimedia / yonolatengo / CC Why the name change According to the developers of the standard, the new approach to […]
More specifically, the Vidalia onion. This variety of onion is considered sweet: thanks to its mild flavor and aroma, people eat it just like apples. At least, that's what most of my customers do. During a phone order — in the 2018 season, if I remember correctly — one of them shared a story with me about how […]
Hello! We are starting the publication of reports from QIWI Kitchen, and the first one will be Absamat's presentation about his subscription art service. Over to the speaker. My name is Absamat, I am a partner at the service design agency Useful, and I am also simultaneously creating the DaiDa service, which allows people to rent art objects, namely — paintings from various artists. In this post, I will share […]
The QEMU 4.0 project release has been created. As an emulator, QEMU allows you to run a program compiled for one hardware platform on a system with a completely different architecture, for example, executing an ARM application on an x86-compatible PC. In virtualization mode, QEMU's code execution performance in an isolated environment is close to that of a native system by directly executing instructions on the CPU and utilizing […]
Cloud gaming is referred to as one of the key technologies to watch right now. In six years, this market is expected to grow tenfold – from $45 million in 2018 to $450 million by 2024. Tech giants are already rushing to conquer this niche: Google and Nvidia have launched beta versions of their cloud gaming services, with others preparing to enter the arena […]
Before the release of the fresh Windows 10 May 2019 Update, Microsoft traditionally updated the page with processor requirements. Now it features Windows 10 1903, also known as the May update. In terms of hardware, nothing has changed. The operating system still supports Intel processors up to the ninth generation, Intel Xeon E-21xx, Atom J4xxx/J5xxx, Atom N4xxx/N5xxx, Celeron, Pentium, processors […]
KlusterKit: an open-source toolkit for simplifying Kubernetes deployments and operations in physically isolated local environments. Today, we are excited to announce that Platform9 is open-sourcing Klusterkit, a set of three tools, under the Apache v2.0 license on GitHub. Our customers deploy software in private data centers, which are often not connected to the internet (for security reasons […]
I'm back to talking about data leaks, but this time I'll share a bit about the afterlife of IT projects through two recent discoveries. During database security audits, it's often the case that you find servers (I wrote about how to search for databases in my blog) belonging to projects that have long (or not so long) left our world. Such projects even continue to mimic […]
The client wanted VDI. They were very interested in the SimpliVity + Citrix Virtual Desktop combination. For all operators, office employees across the cities, and so on. There are five thousand users just in the first wave of migration, so they insisted on load testing. VDI can start to lag or could run smoothly — and this doesn't always happen due to problems with […]
The 'picture-in-picture' feature appeared in Chromium browsers last month. Now Google is actively enhancing it. The latest improvement includes support for 'silent videos' in this mode. In other words, it means muting the sound in the video shown in a separate window. The new feature allows you to mute the sound of the video when selecting 'Picture in Picture' […]
Google has released version 74 of the Chrome web browser. At the same time, a stable release of the open-source project Chromium, which serves as the basis for Chrome, is available. The Chrome browser features the use of Google logos, the ability to download the Flash module on demand, a notification system in case of crashes, modules for playing protected video content, an automatic update installation system, and the transmission of RLZ parameters during searches. The next release, Chrome 75, is planned […]
This is the new stable release of NetworkManager. Notable changes include: Support for routing rule policies, which are necessary for the WireGuard VPN, support for which was added in the previous stable release. VLAN filtering support for network bridges has been introduced. Support for ieee-802-1 and ieee-802-3 LLDP (Link Layer Discovery Protocol) TLV has been added. MTU job size limits for profiles have been increased […]