Author: ProHoster

Review of the Seagate ST2000DM008 drive: fast "kopeck piece" without overprice

Solid state drives continue to take over the market, but despite this, traditional HDDs are doing just fine. It’s too early to hand over “Classics” to a museum, because it is still convenient to store large amounts of information on HDD drives. Firstly, the question of price arises - just compare the cost of SSDs and HDDs with a capacity of terabytes and above. For the price of one 2TB SSD, you can […]

Seminar: Hybrid IT solutions for business. November 14, Moscow

Hi all! Since 2017, we have been building solutions for our clients based on the Cisco HyperFlex hyperconverged platform. Our portfolio includes private and public clouds, hybrid and distributed IT systems, built on equipment and together with Cisco engineers. So let's talk about it! Linxdatacenter and Cisco invite you to a seminar on the practice of building a hybrid IT infrastructure. Date:14 […]

RCS is replacing SMS. Long-awaited progress, or a step forward two back?

The recently published news, with the headline “The largest US mobile operators will abandon the SMS message format,” could hardly leave any of us indifferent, because we all own mobile devices that support these same SMS messages. Obviously, the conversation is about introducing a new (essentially well-forgotten old) RCS platform; no one is going to completely eliminate the good old SMS, […]

What you need to know about Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

The transition to Kubernetes and Linux infrastructures during the digital transformation of organizations leads to the fact that applications are increasingly beginning to be built on the basis of microservice architecture and, as a result, very often acquire complex schemes for routing requests between services. In Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, we go beyond traditional routing and provide components for tracing and visualizing such requests […]

LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 + MicroPython: we program a children's constructor with an adult language

Hey Habr! We have already talked about the LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 platform. The main objectives of this platform are learning by practical examples, the development of STEAM skills and the formation of engineering thinking. It can be used for laboratory work on the study of mechanics and dynamics. LEGO brick lab benches and data logging and processing utilities make experiments even more fun and […]

- Do you make gasoline in the petrochemical industry, right?

Hey Habr! Continuing our series of publications, we decided that in order to understand the basics of "digital chemistry" we need to tell a little about the essence of the company's business. It is clear that we will simplify along the way so as not to turn the story into a boring lecture listing the entire periodic table (by the way, 2019 is officially the year of the periodic law, in honor of the 150th anniversary of its discovery). Many people answer […]

What is studied in the specialty Data Science in foreign universities

“Whether it’s a financial services company looking to mitigate risk or a retailer trying to predict customer behavior, the use case for AI and machine learning is based on an effective data strategy,” said Ryohei Fujimaki, founder of dotData and youngest researcher at history of the 119-year-old IT corporation NEC. As demand grows, so does the number of Data Science programs […]

SIBUR Challenge 2019 – industrial data analysis competition

Hi all! The online stage of the SIBUR Challenge 2019 data analysis competition continues. Briefly about the main thing: SIBUR Challenge is our signature hackathon, which we are doing together with the AI ​​Community. As cases, we use real production tasks based on real data. The prize fund is 1 rubles, plus vacancies and internships for the winners. Get involved in […]

openSUSE distribution name change: voting results

Today, the mailing list (one of the officially announced channels) published the results of a vote that began on October 10 and ended on November 7, 2019. In response to the question “Are we changing the name of the project?” The votes were distributed as follows: For - 42 Against - 225 The total number of voters was 491 people. At the same time, it should be noted that the option “Abstained” […]

LEGO MINDSTORMS Education EV3 in Career Guidance

image - roboconstructor.ru A well-known parable says that when a young mother with a child in her arms turned to the sage and asked at what age she should start raising her offspring, the elder replied that she was too late for as many years as the child already had. With the choice of a future vocation, the situation is quite similar. It is difficult to demand awareness of one's inclinations and interests from an infant, […]

First official release of rav1e, the AV1 encoder in Rust

The first release of the new high-performance AV1 video encoding format encoder, rav1e 0.1, jointly developed by the Xiph and Mozilla communities, has taken place. The encoder is written in Rust and differs from the reference libaom encoder by a significant increase in encoding speed and increased attention to security. The project code is distributed under the BSD license. The AV1 format is noticeably ahead of x264 and libvpx-vp9 in […]

The creators of Days Gone will add special gas tanks to the game in honor of the release of Death Stranding

Bend Studio will celebrate the release of Death Stranding in Days Gone. In honor of Hideo Kojima's new game, the developers will add cosmetic items to their project. The company released a special teaser on Twitter. Days Gone players will now be able to install two new gas tanks: a capsule with a newborn baby or a steel tank with a blue backlight. They can be purchased from a mechanic [...]