Author: ProHoster

I want reviews on Habr

From the moment I registered on Habré, I had a feeling of some kind of understatement in the articles. Those. here is the author, here is his article = opinion... but something is missing. Something is missing... After a while, I realized that a critical eye was missing. In general, it can be found in the comments. But they have a significant drawback - an alternative opinion is lost in the general […]

Habr's Karmic Curse

Unforeseen consequences “Habr’s karma system and its impact on users” is a topic for a coursework at a minimum The topic about karma on “Pikabu” I could start this article with the fact that I have been reading Habr for a long time, but this would not be an entirely accurate statement. The correct thesis would sound like this: “I’ve been reading articles from Habr for a long time” - but […]

About increasing the comfort of living on Habré - another possible recipe

In addition to the hottest article on Habr - Habr's Karmic Curse, and I would like a review of Habr. At first I wanted to add a comment, but still there is not enough comment to describe the situation and details. As a result, a short note was born. Maybe someone will be interested. Let me offer one more recipe - to increase the level of comfortable living on Habré, just run the tool […]

The court allowed non-certified equipment for the "Yarovaya package"

The Arbitration Court of the Krasnodar Territory refused to challenge the Internet provider from Yeysk, Firma Svyaz LLC, to challenge the order of the Roskomnadzor administration for the Southern Federal District to eliminate violations, it follows from the court file. As the department has established, the plaintiff does not comply with the requirements for the introduction of technical means of operational investigative measures (SORM), the court’s ruling states. The Law “On Communications” directly prohibits the installation of uncertified equipment, insists Sergei […]

Release of CentOS Linux 8 and CentOS Stream 8

Today is a big news day for the CentOS project. Firstly, as promised, CentOS Linux 8 was released, build 8.0.1905. Release Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS8.1905 Download link: https://mirror.yandex.ru/centos/8/ The release is a rebuild of the RHEL 8.0 release released in May of this year. Among the significant changes, we should mention AppStreams - the enterprise version of the Fedora Modularity concept. The essence of the approach is to ensure the simultaneous availability of different versions of the same […]

Jim Keller: Future Intel microarchitectures will provide significant performance gains

As follows from the information that Jim Keller, senior vice president of technology and system architecture at Intel, told the world, his company is currently working on creating a fundamentally new microarchitecture, which should become “significantly larger and closer to a linear dependence of performance on the number of transistors,” than the modern design of Sunny Cove. Apparently, this should be interpreted in this way, [...]

Canon's entry-level EOS M200 system camera offers 4K video

Canon has unveiled the EOS M200, an entry-level mirrorless camera. This is a fairly modest update to the pretty good EOS M100, which was introduced two years ago. Thanks to the use of the new Digic 8 processor, the device provides Dual Pixel AF autofocus with eye detection, the ability to record 4K video at 24 or 25 fps (not from the entire sensor, but […]

Creating Google Users from PowerShell via API

Hello! This article will describe the implementation of PowerShell interaction with the Google API to manipulate G Suite users. We use several internal and cloud services across the organization. For the most part, authorization in them comes down to Google or Active Directory, between which we cannot maintain a replica; accordingly, when a new employee leaves, you need to create/enable an account […]

Slurm: Moscow intensive on Kubernetes and other announcements

Slurm is a training course for Kubernetes. Slurm Basic: create a cluster and deploy the application. Slurm Mega: looking under the hood of the cluster. Report from the past of Slurm History of Slurm We are the only Kubernetes Training Partner CNCF in Russia. Moscow Slurm Slurm Basic will be held in Moscow on November 18-20. Half of the seats have already been booked. Last time the places ran out in 2 […]

Stop thinking that SLA will save you. It is needed to calm and create a false sense of security.

SLA, also known as “service-level agreement”, is a guarantee agreement between the customer and the service provider about what the customer will receive in terms of service. It also stipulates compensation in case of downtime due to the fault of the supplier, and so on. Essentially, an SLA is a credential with which a data center or hosting provider convinces a potential client that he will […]

Games with Gold in October: Tembo the Badass Elephant, Friday the 13th, Disney Bolt and Ms. Splosion Man

Microsoft has announced next month's games for Xbox Live Gold subscribers. In October, Russian gamers will have the opportunity to add Tembo the Badass Elephant, Friday the 13th: The Game, Disney Bolt and Ms. to their library. Splosion Man. Tembo the Badass Elephant is an action game from the creators of the Pokémon role-playing games, Game Freak. After the Phantom attack, Shell City found itself […]

Xbox Game Pass for PC: Dirt Rally 2.0, Cities: Skylines, Bad North and Saints Row IV

Microsoft spoke about which games have been added - or will soon be added - to the Xbox Game Pass catalog for PC. A total of four games have been announced: Bad North: Jotunn Edition, DiRT Rally 2.0, Cities: Skylines and Saints Row IV: Re-Elected. The first two are already available to Xbox Game Pass for PC subscribers. The rest can be downloaded later. Bad North is charming, but […]