Good day, dear reader. I will share my nightmare that I experienced while migrating CA from Windows 2008R2 to Windows 2012 R2. There are many articles about this online, and there should have been no issues. Unfortunately — I am not much of a Windows Admin; I am more of a *nix admin, but I was tasked with the migration […]
Funcom continues to develop the survival simulator Conan Exiles. The developers have introduced a new seasonal subscription: Conan Exiles – Year 2 Season Pass. This includes four downloadable expansions: 'Treasures of Turan', 'Horsemen of Hyboria', 'Blood and Sand', and 'Secrets of Acheron', with the first one already available. The subscription costs 899 rubles on Steam. 'By purchasing the season pass, you save 25% […]
Ubuntu is an amazing operating system; I hadn't worked with Ubuntu server for a long time, and it didn't make sense to update my Desktop from the stable version. Recently, I encountered the fresh release of Ubuntu server 18.04, and I was astonished to realize how far behind I had fallen and that I couldn't configure the network because the good old system […]
A comparison of two approaches to structuring the Activity diagram (inspired by 'The Squirrel'). In the first part of the article 'From Process Modeling to the Design of Automated Systems', we modeled processes from a 'fairy tale' subject area — lines about the squirrel from A.S. Pushkin's 'The Tale of Tsar Saltan, His Glorious and Mighty Son Prince Guidon Saltanovich and the Beautiful Swan Princess'. And we began with […]
The release of the main branch nginx 1.15.12 is available, which continues to develop new features (the parallel stable branch 1.14 only receives changes related to fixing serious bugs and vulnerabilities). In version 1.15.12, a crash (segmentation fault) of the worker process has been fixed that could occur if variables were used in the ssl_certificate or ssl_certificate_key directives and the OCSP stapling mechanism was enabled, […]
Google has finally implemented the tab scrolling feature, which has long been present in Firefox. It allows for not 'packing' dozens of tabs across the width of the screen, but only showing part of them. This feature can be disabled. Currently, it is only available in the test version of the Chrome Canary program. To enable it, you need to go to the flags section and activate it — chrome://flags/#scrollable-tabstrip. […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is developing its own secure communication platform. The project is called RACE and aims to create a distributed anonymous system for communication. RACE is based on requirements for network resilience and the privacy of all its participants. Thus, DARPA places security at the forefront. Although technical […]
On April 13, the American daily newspaper The New York Times published an article on its website discussing how the U.S. police turn to Google for assistance in investigating crimes when no other means are available to search for witnesses and suspects. The article tells the story of Jorge Molina — a simple warehouseman accused of murder committed in December […]
Hello, Habr! Recently I watched a downloaded version of the programming stream 'How to Create Your Web Application on Flask'. I decided to solidify my knowledge with some project. I wasn't sure what to write for a long time, and then the idea struck me: 'Why not create a mini backdoor on Flask?'. The first implementation options and possibilities for the backdoor immediately came to mind. But I decided […]
Introduction 'Generating random numbers is too important to leave to chance' Robert Coveyou, 1970 This article is dedicated to the practical application of solutions that utilize collective random number generation in untrusted environments. Briefly — how and for what purposes randomness is used in blockchains, and a bit about how to distinguish 'good' randomness from 'bad'. Generating truly random numbers is […]
The first release candidate of the installer for the next significant release of Debian 10 'Buster' is now available. Currently, there are 146 critical bugs blocking the release (down from 316 a month ago, 577 two months ago, 275 at the time of Debian 9 freeze, 350 in Debian 8, and 650 in Debian 7). The final release of Debian 10 is expected in the summer. Compared to […]
Surely, each of us has wondered what this dream team looks like? Is it Ocean's group of cool friends? Or perhaps the French national football team? Maybe it’s a team of developers from Google? In any case, we would like to be in such a team or even create one. Amid all this, I want to share […]