Author: ProHoster

JPR: Global PC Graphics Shipments Down 10,7% YoY

The analytical company Jon Peddie Research conducted its own study of the global graphics solutions market. Based on the work done, an analyst report was published, which reflects the supply of graphics devices in the first quarter of 2019. It is noted that year-on-year the volume of supplies of graphics solutions decreased by 10,7%. Moreover, compared to the previous quarter, deliveries decreased by […]

Client: How much does a copy of Facebook cost?

“How much does it cost to make a copy of Facebook (Avito, Yandex.Taxi, fl.ru…)?” is one of the most popular customer questions, to which we will give a detailed answer today and tell you how it looks from the side of the people who have to do it. "Black box" When we are given the task to copy some service, then for us it is a kind of "black box". It doesn't really matter what […]

Efficiency Algorithms: Nobelic Surveillance Camera Review 2019

Nobelic models remain our most sought-after cameras and there are many reasons for this. From the start of sales, we did not change the characteristics of the devices, but were engaged in the development of the service. Even the most popular camera is only half the success, the software is responsible for the rest. The truth is that Ivideon is a service, program code, algorithms, and the camera is the entry point to the service. […]

Upgrade the disk subsystem of an old server with a PCIe 1.0 - 2.0 bus

Why the topic of this article is the upgrade of the disk subsystem It is clear that in the first place it is necessary, as a rule: Increase the RAM. This is such an obvious move that I did not even consider it necessary to write about it in the main article Install an additional processor (s) or replace both processors with the maximum performance versions supported by server sockets. For older servers that memory, processors like […]

Release of Nitrux 1.1.7 distribution with Nomad desktop

The Nitrux 1.1.7 distribution is available, built on the Ubuntu package base and KDE technologies. The distribution develops its own Nomad desktop, which is an add-on to the KDE Plasma user environment. To install additional applications, a system of self-contained AppImages packages and its own NX Software Center are being promoted. The boot image size is 1.5 GB. The project's developments are distributed under [...]

4MLinux 27.0 Minimal Distribution Released

The stable release of 4MLinux 29.0 has been published, a minimalistic user distribution that is not a fork from other projects and uses a JWM-based graphical environment. 4MLinux can be used not only as a Live environment for playing multimedia files and solving user tasks, but also as a system for disaster recovery and a platform for running LAMP servers (Linux, Apache, MariaDB […]

Your social media accounts are now required to obtain a US visa

If you're planning a trip to the United States in the near future, you'll likely need to share your accounts on popular social networks. As previously proposed back in March 2018 (and rumored to have started in 2015), the US State Department has now begun requiring virtually all US visa applicants to indicate […]

The ceiling gets higher: PCI Express 5.0 specifications adopted

The PCI-SIG organization responsible for the development of PCI Express specifications announced the adoption of the specifications in the final version of version 5.0. The development of PCIe 5.0 was a record for the industry. The specifications were developed and approved in just 18 months. PCIe 4.0 specifications were released in the summer of 2017. We are now almost into the summer of 2019, and the final version of PCIe 5.0 can already be […]

Man without smartphone

I am 33 years old, I am a programmer from St. Petersburg and I do not and never have had a smartphone. It’s not that I don’t need it—I do, in fact, very much: I work in the IT field, all members of my family have them (this is my child’s third), I had to manage mobile development, among other things, I […]

Episode 3 of the podcast. Runet vs TV, ARM vs Intel, unification of state data, no smartphone in 2019, Soviet dreams of the future

The third episode of the Habr Weekly podcast has been released. We discuss the victory of the Runet over television, new processors from ARM, the news about the creation of a unified government data management system in Russia, the experience of living without a smartphone in 2019, and Soviet dreams of the future. Where else you can listen: Apple podcasts Soundcloud Yandex music VK YouTube Overcast Pocketcast Castbox RSS Participants Ivan Zvyagin, editor-in-chief Nikolay Zemlyansky, content person Adel Mubarakshin, tester Daler […]

GnuPG 2.2.16 release

There is a new release of GnuPG 2.2.16, an open and free tool for data encryption. Major changes: gpg: added --delete-key option, which allows you to delete secondary keys (subkeys). gpg: When updating native digital signatures using the --quick-set-expire or --quick-set-primary-uid options, SHA-1 hashes are replaced with SHA-256. gpg: improved choice of program for viewing images. gpg: fixed decryption with --use-embedded-filename option. gpg: […]