Author: ProHoster

AMD SmartShift: Dynamic CPU and GPU Frequency Control Technology

AMD's presentation at CES 2020 contained more interesting details about the new products of the company and its closest partners than the press releases published following the event. Representatives of the company spoke about the synergistic effect that is achieved through the use of an AMD graphics and central processor in one system. SmartShift technology improves performance by up to 12% just through dynamic control […]

Server publishing via D-Link DFL gateway

I had a task - to publish a service on the D-Link DFL router at an IP address that is not tied to the wan interface. But I couldn’t find instructions on the Internet that would solve this problem, so I wrote my own. Initial data (all addresses are taken as an example) Web server on the internal network with IP: 192.168.0.2 (port 8080). Pool of external white addresses allocated by the provider: 5.255.255.0/28, gateway […]

Istio Circuit Breaker: Disable Faulty Containers

The holidays are over and we're back with our second post in the Istio Service Mesh series. Today’s topic is Circuit Breaker, which translated into Russian electrical engineering means “circuit breaker”, in common parlance – “circuit breaker”. Only in Istio this machine does not disconnect a shorted or overloaded circuit, but faulty containers. How this should work ideally When […]

Fun Statistical Facts Compilation #3

A selection of graphs and results of various studies with short annotations from the author of the Telegram channel Groks. Only one company among the largest debutants on the stock exchange this year is profitable. Ten of the 10 tech companies that went public in 14 saw their stock prices fall on the first day of trading. And all companies except Zoom are planned to be unprofitable. Moreover, some expenses are almost [...]

The magic of virtualization: an introductory course in Proxmox VE

Today we will talk about how to quickly and easily deploy several virtual servers with different operating systems on one physical server. This will allow any system administrator to centrally manage the entire IT infrastructure of the company and save a huge amount of resources. The use of virtualization helps to abstract as much as possible from physical server hardware, protect critical services and easily restore their operation even […]

DEFCON 27 Conference. WiFi Hacking Tool Kraken

Darren Kitchen: Good afternoon, we're on the sidelines of DefCon at the hacker group Hack 5, and I want to introduce one of my favorite hackers, DarkMatter, with his new development called WiFi Kraken. The last time we met, you had a huge backpack on your back with a “Cactus” topped with a pineapple, and generally […]

Behind the Scenes of a Stack Overflow Moderator

Recent articles on Habré about the experience of using StackOverflow prompted me to write an article, but from the position of a moderator. I would like to note right away that we will talk about Stack Overflow in Russian. My profile: Suvitruf. First, I would like to talk about the reasons that prompted me to participate in the elections. If in past times, in general, the main reason was simply the desire to help […]

Managing the team, break all the rules

The art of management is full of conflicting rules, and the world's best managers stick to their own rules. Are they right and why is the hiring process at market-leading companies structured this way and not otherwise? Do you need to try your best to overcome your shortcomings? Why do self-managed teams often fail? Who should a manager spend more time on—[...]

KDE will change the look and feel of Plasma applications and menus. Join the discussion!

In 2020, the KDE project is expecting major changes. First of all, this is a redesign of the standard Breeze theme and everyone’s favorite “Kickoff” menu. In addition, many technical changes await us: updating the KIO library, updating the WS-DISCOVERY protocol for Dolphin, automatic screen rotation for tablets and other devices with a rotation sensor. And this is only a small part of the innovations! Nate Graham (Nate […]

The book "Fashion, Faith, Fantasy and the New Physics of the Universe"

Hello, Khabro residents! Is it possible to talk about fashion, faith or fantasy in fundamental science? The universe is not interested in human fashion. Science cannot be interpreted as faith, because scientific postulates are constantly subjected to strict experimental testing and are discarded as soon as dogma begins to conflict with objective reality. And fantasy generally neglects both facts and logic. However, the great Roger Penrose […]

Update Firefox 72.0.1 and 68.4.1 with the elimination of a critical 0-day vulnerability

Emergency corrective releases of Firefox 72.0.1 and 68.4.1 have been published, which eliminate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-17026), which allows code execution to be organized when opening pages designed in a certain way. The danger is aggravated by the fact that even before the fix was made, attacks using this vulnerability were recorded and a working exploit was in the hands of attackers. All Firefox users are advised to urgently update their browser, and [...]