In all likelihood, Gearbox Software will not release Borderlands 3 at the launch of Google Stadia, but the role-playing shooter will be available shortly after the service launches. WCCFTech recently interviewed Head of PR Austin Malcolm and Borderlands 3 Producer Randy Varnell, where the streaming service's release window was confirmed. Besides, […]
ASUS continues to expand its range of monitors: the TUF Gaming family includes the VG289Q model on an IPS matrix measuring 28 inches diagonally. The panel, designed for gaming systems, has a UHD 4K resolution of 3840 × 2160 pixels. The response time is 5 ms (Gray to Gray), horizontal and vertical viewing angles are 178 degrees. Brightness and contrast indicators are [...]
Washington continues to build barriers to expand the ban on the use of telecommunications equipment from Chinese manufacturers in the United States. “Huawei Technologies and ZTE cannot be trusted,” said U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who called Chinese firms a security risk and supported a proposal to ban rural wireless carriers from using government funds to buy equipment from them or […]
We continue our series of materials dedicated to server performance testing. Today we will talk about a couple of time-tested benchmarks that are still supported and updated - NetPerf, HardInfo and ApacheBench. Photo - Peter Balcerzak - CC BY-SA NetPerf This is a tool for evaluating network throughput. It was developed by engineers from Hewlett-Packard. The tool includes two executable files: netserver and […]
MSI has announced a monitor called Pro MP221: the new product is designed for everyday work in the office or home. The panel measures 21,5 inches diagonally. A Full HD matrix with a resolution of 1920 × 1080 pixels is used. The accompanying MSI Display Kit software offers a number of useful and convenient features. This is, in particular, splitting the screen to simultaneously display windows [...]
Introduction I wanted to study the mail server for a long time, but I only got my hands on it now, and I didn’t manage to find much correct information, so I decided to write a publication as detailed as possible. This publication will discuss not only postfix, dovecot, mysql, postfixadmin, but also spamassassin, clamav-milter (a special version of clamav for mail servers), postgrey, and […]
Russian IT giant Yandex, large developer PIK and rubetek have announced a smart home control system, available for order from today, November 15, 2019. The solution is called “PIK.Smart”. The system operates on the basis of the Yandex.Station smart speaker with the Alice intelligent voice assistant and the rubetek application on a smartphone. The complex allows you to control the climate and lighting using your voice, control the opening […]
We have developed a data center network design that allows deploying computing clusters larger than 100 servers with a peak bisection bandwidth of over one petabyte per second. From Dmitry Afanasiev's report, you will learn about the main principles of the new design, topology scaling, problems arising from this, options for solving them, routing and scaling features of the […]
Venafi Key Integrations Devops have a lot of work to do and require expertise in cryptography and public key infrastructure (PKI). It is not right. Indeed, each machine must have a valid TLS certificate. They are needed for servers, containers, virtual machines, in service meshes. But the number of keys and certificates is growing like a snowball, and […]
Good afternoon friends! Today I will continue the series dedicated to Extreme switches with an article on Enterprise network design. In this article I will try to be as brief as possible: describe the modular approach to designing the Etnterprise network; consider the types of construction of one of the most important modules of an enterprise network - the core network (ip-campus); describe the advantages and disadvantages of options for reserving critical network nodes using an abstract example; design/update […]
A former coal mine that will house the Arctic World Archive storage facility. Photo: Guy Martin/Bloomberg Businessweek Free software is the cornerstone of modern civilization and the common heritage of all humanity. The mission of the GitHub Archive program is to preserve this code for future generations so that the history of the Library of Alexandria will never be repeated. To do this, GitHub will create many backup copies on different […]
I wrote this review (or, if you prefer, a comparison guide) when I was tasked with comparing several devices from different vendors. In addition, these devices belonged to different classes. I had to understand the architecture and characteristics of all these devices and create a “coordinate system” for comparison. I will be glad if my review helps someone: Understand the descriptions [...]
