Author: ProHoster

Intel at CES 2020 to unveil revolutionary laptop heatsink design

According to Digitimes, citing supply chain sources, at the upcoming CES 2020 (to be held from January 7 to 10), Intel plans to introduce a new laptop cooling system design that can increase heat dissipation efficiency by 25-30%. At the same time, many laptop manufacturers intend to demonstrate finished products during the exhibition that already use this innovation. New design […]

New Xiaomi smart watches based on Wear OS received an NFC module

The Xiaomi Youpin crowdfunding platform has presented a project for a new wearable device - a smart wristwatch called Forbidden City. The gadget will boast very rich functionality. It is equipped with a circular 1,3-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 360 × 360 pixels and support for touch control. The basis is the Snapdragon Wear 2100 hardware platform. The smart chronometer carries on board 512 MB of RAM and a flash drive with […]

Unmanned tractor-snow blower will appear in Russia in 2022

In 2022, a pilot project to use a robotic tractor for snow removal is planned to be implemented in a number of Russian cities. According to RIA Novosti, this was discussed in the NTI Autonet working group. The unmanned vehicle will receive self-control tools with artificial intelligence technologies. On-board sensors will allow you to collect a variety of information that will be sent to the Avtodata telematics platform. Based on the received […]

"New Epics". For dev, ops and curious people

Due to numerous requests from readers, a large series of articles is starting on the use of serverless computing technology to develop a real application. This series will cover application development, testing and delivery to end users using modern tools: microservice application architecture (in a serverless version, based on OpenFaaS), a kubernetes cluster for application deployment, a MongoDB database focused on cloud clustering and […]

Ampere QuickSilver server CPU introduced: 80 ARM Neoverse N1 cloud cores

Ampere Computing has announced a new generation 7nm ARM processor, QuickSilver, designed for cloud systems. The new product has 80 cores with the latest Neoverse N1 microarchitecture, more than 128 PCIe 4.0 lanes and an eight-channel DDR4 memory controller with support for modules with frequencies above 2666 MHz. And thanks to CCIX support, it is possible to create dual-processor platforms. Together, all this should allow the new [...]

VPS with 1C: get a little high?

Oh, 1C, how much in this sound merged for the heart of the Habrovite, how much echoed in it... In a sleepless night of updates, configurations and codes, we waited for sweet moments and account updates... Oh, something pulled me into the lyrics. Of course: how many generations of system administrators beat the tambourine and prayed to the IT gods so that accounting and HR would stop grumbling and […]

Predator or prey? Who will protect certification centers

What's happening? The topic of fraudulent actions committed using an electronic signature certificate has received wide public attention recently. Federal media have made it a rule to periodically tell horror stories about cases of misuse of electronic signatures. The most common crime in this area is registration of a legal entity. persons or individual entrepreneurs in the name of an unsuspecting citizen of the Russian Federation. Also popular […]

Testing 1C on VPS

As you already know, we have launched a new VPS service with 1C pre-installed. In the last article, you asked a lot of technical questions in the comments and made several valuable comments. This is understandable - each of us wants to have some guarantees and calculations in hand in order to make a decision on changing the company’s IT infrastructure. We listened to Habr’s voice and decided [...]

3. Elastic stack: analysis of security logs. Dashboards

In previous articles, we got a little familiar with the elk stack and setting up the Logstash configuration file for the log parser. In this article, we’ll move on to the most important thing from an analytical point of view, what you want to see from the system and what everything was created for - these are graphs and tables combined into dashboards . Today we will take a closer look at the visualization system [...]

Automatic cat litter box - continued

In previous articles that I published on Habré (“Automatic cat litter” and “Toilet for Maine Coons”), I presented a model of a toilet implemented on a different flushing principle from the existing ones. The toilet was positioned as a product assembled from components that were freely sold and available for purchase. The disadvantage of this concept is that some technical solutions are forced. We have to put up with the fact that the selected components […]

Gateway for UDP between Wi-Fi and LoRa

Making a gateway between Wi-Fi and LoRa for UDP I had a childhood dream - to issue every household “without Wi-Fi” device a network ticket, i.e. an IP address and port. After some time, I realized that there was no point in postponing. We have to take it and do it. Technical specification Make it an M5Stack gateway with an installed LoRa Module (Figure 1). The gateway will be connected to [...]

"50 Shades of Brown" or "How We Got Here"

Disclaimer: this material contains only the subjective opinion of the author, filled with stereotypes and fiction. Facts in the material are displayed in the form of metaphors; metaphors can be distorted, exaggerated, embellished, or even made up ASM There is still debate about who started all this. Yes, yes, I’m talking about how people moved from ordinary communication [...]