Author: ProHoster

First iridium sponsor of OpenBSD in 2019

Smartisan Technology has made a $400 donation to the OpenBSD project, becoming the third Iridium sponsor of the project and the first Iridium sponsor in 2019. Projects that donate $100 or more receive iridium status. Other project sponsors include: Facebook (000 and 2019, “golden” sponsor: from $2017 to $25,000), Handshake (50,000 […]

Oracle releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5U2

Oracle has released the second functional update for the Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel R5, positioned for use in the Oracle Linux distribution as an alternative to the standard package with the kernel from Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The kernel is available for x86_64 and ARM64 (aarch64) architectures. The kernel sources, including the breakdown into individual patches, are published in the public Oracle Git repository. Unbreakable Enterprise package […]

How many programmers does it take to drink a cup of coffee

The last 28 years of my life have been an endless series of moving from place to place. And for some reason this trend slowly (although perhaps quickly) flowed with me to a new place of work in the form of a tradition every month with friends, that is, the IT department with the code name URKPO, moving from room to room, from building to building , In hope […]

Cable TV networks for the little ones. Part 7: Optical Receivers

The boundary between the optical medium and the coaxial cable is the optical receiver. In this article we will look at their design and settings. Contents of the series of articles Part 1: General architecture of a CATV network Part 2: Composition and signal shape Part 3: Analog component of the signal Part 4: Digital component of the signal Part 5: Coaxial distribution network Part 6: RF signal amplifiers Part 7: Optical […]

Digital events in Moscow from 3 to 9 June

Selection of events for the week Russian Retail Week 2019 June 03 (Monday) - June 08 (Saturday) Krasnopresnenskaya embankment 12 free Russian Retail Week is an annual, key and large-scale industry event with the participation of business and the state. The event at which the main directions for the development of the retail trade sector are formed, the state’s approaches to the development of multi-format retail are determined, and the problems of the industry are solved. Callday.Agency […]

Daily reports on the status of virtual machines using R and PowerShell

Introduction Good afternoon. For half a year now, we have been running a script (more precisely, a set of scripts) that generates reports on the state of virtual machines (and not only). I decided to share my experience of creation and the code itself. I count on criticism and the fact that this material may be useful to someone. We have a lot of virtual machines (about 1500 VMs distributed over 3 […]

BlackBerry Messenger has officially shut down

On May 31, 2019, the Indonesian company Emtek Group officially closed the BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) messaging service and application for it. Note that this company has owned the rights to the system since 2016 and tried to revive it, but to no avail. “We have poured our hearts into making this [BBM] a reality and we are proud of what we have created to date […]

New Article: BQ Magic Smartphone Review: Affordable Beauty

Creating a high-quality budget smartphone is a noble and at the same time difficult task. There’s not much room to rattle the saber of innovation here, you can’t play with OLED screens and tetra cameras, and the competition in this segment is enormous, and the user wants to get a normal-level gadget for little money. BQ plays exclusively on this field and has become quite skilled in her role. Usually we are talking about the “cheap […]

Motorola One Action smartphone will carry Exynos 9609 processor on board

Online sources report that the Motorola One Action smartphone will debut soon: the other day the device appeared in a benchmark. It is reported that the “heart” of the device is the Exynos 9609 processor developed by Samsung. This chip contains four Cortex-A73 cores clocked at up to 2,2 GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores clocked at up to 1,6 GHz. The graphics accelerator is busy […]

Intel wants more openness: the company is going to return to the IDF

Intel is going to resume the Intel Developer Forum (IDF), a series of thematic conferences for developers, IT specialists and the industry press, at which company employees shared current information about advanced technologies and developments. According to the Fudzilla website, the once popular event could return this year. Let us recall that in 2017 Intel refused to hold IDF conferences, which […]

TeamCity Plugin Developer Contest

Hey Habr! We recently launched the TeamCity Plugin Developer Contest, and you can still enter it. The rules are simple: participants send us plugins by June 24th, and in return receive a one-year subscription to any JetBrains IDE of their choice. After the collection of applications is completed, we are the TeamCity development team and three independent judges […]