Author: ProHoster

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 […]

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 […]

The Libra Association keeps trying to get regulatory approval to launch Libra cryptocurrency in Europe

It has been reported that the Libra Association, which plans to launch the Facebook-developed digital currency Libra next year, continues to negotiate with EU regulators even after Germany and France categorically spoke out in favor of banning the cryptocurrency. The director of the Libra Association, Bertrand Perez, spoke about this in a recent interview. Let us remind you that […]

The Huawei Video platform will work in Russia

The Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei intends to launch its video service in Russia in the coming months. RBC reports this, citing information received from Jaime Gonzalo, vice president of mobile services for Huawei's consumer products division in Europe. We are talking about the Huawei Video platform. It became available in China approximately three years ago. Later, promotion of the service began on the European […]

NVIDIA began to bargain with suppliers, wanting to reduce costs

In August of this year, NVIDIA reported financial results for the quarter that exceeded expectations, but for the current quarter the company gave an ambiguous forecast, and this could alert analysts. Representatives of SunTrust, who are now being quoted by Barron's, were not included in their number. According to experts, NVIDIA has a strong position in the segment of server components, gaming video cards and […]

Roskomnadzor began installation of equipment to isolate the Runet

It will be tested in one of the regions, but not in Tyumen, as the media previously wrote. The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that the agency has begun installing equipment to implement the law on isolated RuNet. TASS reported this. The equipment will be tested from the end of September to October, “carefully” and in cooperation with telecom operators. Zharov clarified that testing will begin in [...]