Author: ProHoster

Southbridge in Chelyabinsk and Bitrix in Kubernetes

In Chelyabinsk, meetups of Sysadminka system administrators are taking place, and at the last of them I made a report on our solution for running applications on 1C-Bitrix in Kubernetes. Bitrix, Kubernetes, Ceph - a great mix? I’ll tell you how we put together a working solution from all this. Go! The mitap took place on April 18 in Chelyabinsk. You can read about our meetups in Timepad and see […]

A new record for data transfer speed in Russian LTE networks has been set

The MegaFon operator announced the achievement of a new record for information transfer speed in the fourth generation mobile commercial network (4G/LTE). The experiment was carried out jointly with Qualcomm Technologies and Nokia. The communication channel capacity has reached 1,6 Gbit/s! To achieve the record, Nokia base station equipment was used based on the new generation of the AirScale system module in the MegaFon frequency spectrum configuration: LTE 2600 […]

Xiaomi in Mi 9T commercials mocks the screen notch

In the new smartphone Xiaomi Mi 9T (Redmi K20 in the Chinese market), presented recently, one of the key advantages is the absence of any screen cutouts due to the mechanical retractable camera module. This is unusual for modern flagships - especially the iPhone, which popularized the notch and is rumored to keep the same huge screen cutout in the 2020 family. […]

ASUS 6Z - the flagship-shifter for the Indian market

ASUS has released the 6Z smartphone for the Indian market, which is in many ways identical to the unusual ASUS Zenfone 6 - there is even a rotating camera that can work as a rear and front camera. The device features a 6,46-inch Full HD+ (2340 x 1080) LCD display with narrow bezels, 92% screen-to-face ratio, 600 nits brightness, HDR10 support and Corning Gorilla Glass […]

Valve drops official Steam support in Ubuntu 19.10+

One of Valve's employees reported that the company will no longer officially support the Ubuntu distribution on Steam, starting with the release of 19.10, and will not recommend it to its users. The decision was made in connection with the complete cessation of the formation of 32-bit packages in Ubuntu 19.10, including 32-bit assemblies of libraries required to run existing 32-bit applications. To run some games [...]

Release of libhandy 0.0.10, a library for building mobile versions of GTK/GNOME applications

Purism, which develops the Librem 5 smartphone and the free PureOS distribution, introduced the release of the libhandy 0.0.10 library, which develops a set of widgets and objects for creating a user interface for mobile devices using GTK and GNOME technologies. The library is being developed in the process of porting GNOME applications to the user environment of the Librem 5 smartphone. The project code is distributed under the GPL license […]

The console release of the action platformer Furwind will take place in less than a week

JanduSoft and Boomfire Games have announced that the action platformer Furwind will be released on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation Vita on June 27. Furwind was released on PC on October 25, 2018. The game is a classic challenging platformer starring the young fox Furvind. An ancient war between ancestors ended with the imprisonment of one of them. […]

The Ministry of Education and Science of Russia has updated the information portal for applicants

As part of the admissions campaign to the country's universities, the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Education and Science of Russia) launched an updated version of the “Do the Right Thing” web portal for applicants. The service allows you to obtain objective information about educational organizations of higher education accredited in the Russian Federation and select institutions for subsequent training. In the new version of the “Do the Right Thing” information portal, a personalized personal account has been created, [...]

Bitcoin rises above $11 for the first time in 000 months

The price of Bitcoin soared above $11 for the first time since early 000, marking a new milestone in the return of the virtual currency. The cryptocurrency hit $2018 just before 11:190,57 am EDT on June 9, setting a new high this year, CoinDesk data shows. Last December, the Bitcoin rate hit rock bottom, falling to around $00. This […]

Reduce power consumption in the data center - will help the new photonic chip

MIT has developed the architecture of a new photonic processor. It will increase the efficiency of optical neural networks by a thousand times compared to similar devices. The chip will reduce the amount of electricity consumed by the data center. Let's talk about how it's set up. Photo - Ildefonso Polo - Unsplash Why a new architecture is needed Optical neural networks are faster than traditional solutions using electronic components. Light does not require isolation of signal […]

How I became a Percona Live speaker (and some intriguing details from the American frontier)

Percona Live Open Source Database Conference is one of the main events on the calendar of the DBMS world. Once it all started with the development of one of the forks of MySQL, but then it greatly outgrew the progenitor. And although a lot of materials (and visitors) are still closely related to MySQL, the general information background has become much wider: MongoDB, PostgreSQL, […]