The European Southern Observatory (ESO) presented stunning photographs of the total solar eclipse that took place on July 2 this year. The total solar eclipse passed through ESO's La Silla Observatory in Chile. It is curious that this astronomical event occurred in the fiftieth year of activity of the said observatory - La Silla was opened back in 1969. At 16:40 […]
Optimal PostgreSQL performance depends on correctly defined operating system parameters. Poorly configured OS kernel settings can result in poor database server performance. Therefore, it is imperative that these settings are configured according to the database server and its workload. In this post, we will discuss some important Linux kernel parameters that can affect the performance of […]
After two years of development, a stable release of the modular multi-platform boot manager GNU GRUB 2.04 (GRand Unified Bootloader) is presented. GRUB supports a wide range of platforms, including conventional PCs with BIOS, IEEE-1275 platforms (PowerPC/Sparc64-based hardware), EFI systems, RISC-V, MIPS-compatible Loongson 2E processor-based hardware, Itanium, ARM, ARM64 and ARCS (SGI), devices using the free CoreBoot package. Basic […]
A fraudulent application, Updates for Samsung, has been identified in the Google Play catalog, which successfully sells access to Android updates for Samsung smartphones, which are initially distributed by Samsung companies for free. Despite the fact that the application is hosted by Updato, a company that has no connection with Samsung and is unknown to anyone, it has already gained more than 10 million installations, which once again confirms the assumption that […]
Released in February, the crossover fighting game Jump Force, which brings together many of the famous characters from the Japanese magazine Weekly Shonen Jump over 50 years of its existence, continues to develop. In May, the game received an expansion with three new fighters - Seto Kaiba (manga "King of Games" or Yu-Gi-Oh!), All Might ("My Hero Academia" or My Hero Academia) and Bisket Kruger ("Hunter of Hunter" [... ]
Mozilla has been nominated for Internet Villain of the Year. The initiators were representatives of the UK Internet Service Providers Trade Association, and the reason was the company's plans to add support for the DNS protocol over HTTPS (DoH) to Firefox. The point is that this technology will allow you to bypass content filtering restrictions adopted in the country. The Internet Services Providers Association (ISPAUK) accused the developers of this. The point is […]
Despite the easing of American sanctions against Huawei and the potential for further use of Android, the Chinese company is not going to deviate from its chosen path to reduce dependence on American operating systems and components. In addition to various products and services, Huawei is expected to present its HongMeng OS at the planned developer conference on August 9-11 in Dongguan. Executive […]
The end of the first and beginning of the second month of summer 2019 turned out to be difficult and was marked by several major drops in global IT services. Of the notable ones: two serious incidents in the CloudFlare infrastructure (the first - with crooked hands and negligent attitude towards BGP on the part of some ISPs from the USA; the second - with a crooked deployment of CF themselves, which affected everyone using CF, […]
Today we are publishing an article by GeekBrains student SergeySolovyov, in which he shares his experience of a radical career change - from a credit specialist to a backend developer. An interesting point in this story is that Sergei changed his specialty, but not his organization - his career began and continues at Home Credit and Finance Bank. How it all began Before moving to IT [...]
A true story based on fictional events. All coincidences are not accidental. All jokes are not funny. — Sergey, hello. My name is Bibi, my colleague is Bob and we are two... team leaders, we have been in the project for a very long time, we know all the todos by heart and today we will communicate about your knowledge and skills. It is written in your CV that you are a senior, [...]
Most modern programmers received their education at universities. Over time, this will change, but now things are such that good personnel in IT companies still come from universities. In this post, Stanislav Protasov, Acronis Director of University Relations, talks about his vision of the features of university training for future programmers. Teachers, students and those who employ them may even […]
A new mode for blocking ads that consume too many system and network resources is being developed for the Chrome web browser. It is proposed to automatically unload iframe blocks with advertising if the code executed in them consumes more than 0.1% of the available bandwidth and 0.1% of CPU time (total and per minute). In absolute values, the limit is set at 4 MB of traffic and 60 seconds of processor time. […]
