Author: ProHoster

We invite you to VK Hackathon 2019. The prize fund of this year is two million rubles

From September 27 to 29, we will hold the fifth VK Hackathon in the St. Petersburg exhibition hall “Manege”. This year there will be 600 participants at the hackathon, a total prize fund of two million rubles and additional rewards for finalizing projects after the finals. If you love the spirit of competition, teamwork and creative solutions, gather your team and fill out an application. […]

Front end crisis?

Three days ago I created my resume. From the description it is clear that there is no real work experience, but some knowledge of Angular. No specifics. Nothing good. I created a resume and forgot... Number of views in the last 3 days: A new HR calls every 2 hours. They write in messengers. Conclusions IMHO Few people like to work with the front. Few people are willing to work for 120k. […]

dhall-lang v9.0.0

Dhall is a programmable configuration language that can be described as: JSON + functions + types + imports. Changes: The old literal Optional syntax is no longer supported. Prohibition of surrogate pairs and non-characters. Added the toMap keyword to create homogeneous association lists from records. Beta normalization: improved sorting of post fields. What's new: Implemented import of paths as locations – […]

Sailfish 3.1 mobile OS release

Jolla has published the release of the Sailfish 3.1 operating system. Builds have been prepared for Jolla 1, Jolla C, Sony Xperia X, Gemini devices, and are already available in the form of an OTA update. Sailfish uses a graphics stack based on Wayland and the Qt5 library, the system environment is built on the basis of Mer, which has been developing as an integral part of Sailfish since April, and packages of the Nemo Mer distribution. Custom […]

Release of XCP-NG 8.0, a free variant of Citrix XenServer

The release of the XCP-NG 8.0 project has been published, within the framework of which a free and free replacement for the proprietary XenServer 8.0 platform is being developed for deploying and managing the operation of cloud infrastructure. XCP-NG recreates functionality that Citrix removed from the free version of Citrix Xen Server starting with version 7.3. XCP-NG 8.0 is positioned as a stable release suitable for general use. Supports upgrading XenServer to […]

Pegatron to assemble third-generation Google Glass glasses

Online sources report that Pegatron has entered the supply chain for third-generation Google Glass, which features a “lighter design” compared to previous models. Previously, Google Glass was assembled exclusively by Quanta Computer. Officials from Pegatron and Quanta Computer have so far refrained from commenting on customers or orders. The message notes […]

Honor 9X and 9X Pro debut: edge-to-edge screen and pop-up camera starting at $200

The Honor brand, owned by Huawei, has officially unveiled the 9X and 9X Pro smartphones, which have recently become the subject of numerous rumors. The devices have an identical design. They are equipped with a Full HD+ display (2340 × 1080 pixels) with a diagonal of 6,59 inches and an aspect ratio of 19,5:9. The screen has no notch or hole at the top. The front camera is designed in the form of [...]

Dailymotion Kubernetes adventure: building infrastructure in the clouds + on-premises

Note Translation: Dailymotion is one of the world's largest video hosting services and therefore a notable user of Kubernetes. In this material, system architect David Donchez shares the results of creating the company's production platform based on K8s, which began with a cloud installation in GKE and ended as a hybrid solution, which allowed for better response times and savings on infrastructure costs. […]

Where is this config from? [Debian/Ubuntu]

The purpose of this post is to show a debugging technique in debian/ubuntu related to "finding the source" in the system configuration file. Test example: after much mockery of the tar.gz copy of the installed OS and after restoring it and installing updates, we receive the message: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=/dev/mapper/U1563304817I0-swap W: but no matching swap device is available. I: The initramfs […]

VM performance analysis in VMware vSphere. Part 3: Storage

Part 1. About the CPU Part 2. About Memory Today we will analyze the metrics of the disk subsystem in vSphere. A storage problem is the most common reason for a slow virtual machine. If, in the case of CPU and RAM, troubleshooting ends at the hypervisor level, then if there are problems with the disk, you may have to deal with the data network and storage system. I will discuss the topic [...]

Blizzard character designer: Sigma is barefoot because that's how they keep patients in mental hospitals

Blizzard character designer Qiu Fang explained to fans an interesting detail about Sigma's appearance. Fen said bare feet are part of his background. Patients in psychiatric hospitals are not allowed shoes. “We decided to leave Sigma's feet bare to recreate the hospital look. In mental hospitals, patients are not allowed to wear shoes because they could injure themselves with the laces. Despite […]

Rumors about a remake of Red Dead Redemption and story DLC turned out to be false - they were invented for the sake of experiment

At the end of last week, rumors began to spread across the Internet that Rockstar Games was working on a remake of Red Dead Redemption and a story addition to Red Dead Redemption 2. Some details looked quite plausible and were supported by earlier information from other sources, but it turned out that gamers were deceived . The user who published this information admitted that he made it up for the sake of an experiment. User […]