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Cisco Live 2019 EMEA. Technical sessions: external simplification with internal complication

I'm Artem Klavdiev, technical leader of the hyperconverged cloud HyperCloud project at Linxdatacenter. Today I will continue the story about the Cisco Live EMEA 2019 global conference. Let's immediately move from the general to the specific, to the announcements presented by the vendor at specialized sessions. This was my first participation in Cisco Live, the mission is to attend technical program events, immerse myself in the world of advanced technologies and […]

Everything is very bad or a new type of traffic interception

On March 13, the RIPE Abuse Working Group received a proposal to consider BGP hijacking (hjjack) as a violation of RIPE policy. If the offer was accepted, the ISP attacked by intercepting traffic would be able to send a special request to bring the attacker to clean water. If the expert group gathers enough supporting evidence, then such an LIR, which is the source of the BGP intercept, […]

The Chef configuration management system has become a fully open project

Chef Software has announced a decision to stop using the Open Core business model, in which only the basic components of the system are freely distributed, and advanced features are delivered as part of a commercial product. All components of the Chef configuration management system, including the Chef Automate management console, infrastructure management tools, the Chef InSpec security management module, and the Chef Habitat delivery automation and orchestration […]

Zabbix 4.2 released

The release of the free open source monitoring system Zabbix 4.2 has taken place. Zabbix is ​​a universal system for monitoring the performance and availability of servers, engineering and network equipment, applications, databases, virtualization systems, containers, IT services, web services. The system implements a full cycle from data collection, processing and transformation, analysis of the received data, and ending with the storage of this data, visualization and […]

VMWare Vs GPL: Court Rejects Appeal, Module Will Be Removed

The Software Freedom Conservancy filed a lawsuit against VMWare in 2016, alleging that the "vmkernel" component in VMware ESXi is built using Linux kernel code. However, the component code itself is closed, which violates the requirements of the GPLv2 license. At that time, the court did not rule on the merits. The case was closed due to lack of due diligence and uncertainty about […]

Figma for Linux systems (design/interface design tool)

Figma is an online service for developing interfaces and prototyping with the ability to organize real-time collaboration. It is positioned by the creators as the main competitor to Adobe software products. Figma is suitable for creating simple prototypes and design systems, as well as complex projects (mobile applications, portals). In 2018, the platform has become one of the fastest growing tools for developers and designers. […]

Control will be filled with music from composers Inside and Alan Wake

505 Games and Remedy Entertainment have announced that composers Martin Stig Andersen (Limbo, Inside, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus) and Petri Alanko (Alan Wake, Quantum Break) are working on the soundtrack for the action-adventure game Control. “No one can write the music for Control better than Petri Alanko and Martin Stig Andersen. Martin's deep and dark ideas combined with […]

XNUMX mistakes I made when I was a junior

Starting out as a developer can often feel daunting: you're faced with unfamiliar problems, a lot to learn, and difficult decisions to make. And in some cases we are wrong in these decisions. This is quite natural, and there is no point in beating yourself up about it. But what you should do is remember your experience for the future. I am a senior developer […]

Chrome and Safari removed the ability to disable the click tracking attribute

Safari and browsers based on the Chromium code base have removed options to disable the “ping” attribute, which allows site owners to track clicks on links from their pages. If you follow a link and there is a “ping=URL” attribute in the “a href” tag, the browser additionally generates a POST request to the URL specified in the attribute, passing information about the transition through the HTTP_PING_TO header. WITH […]

Release of PoCL 1.3, an independent implementation of the OpenCL standard

A release of the PoCL 1.3 project (Portable Computing Language OpenCL) is available, which develops an implementation of the OpenCL standard that is independent of graphics accelerator manufacturers and allows the use of various backends for executing OpenCL kernels on different types of graphics and central processors. The project code is distributed under the MIT license. Supports work on X86_64, MIPS32, ARM v7, AMD HSA APU platforms and various specialized TTA processors (Transport […]

AOMedia Alliance Releases Statement Concerning AV1 Fee Collection Attempts

The Open Media Alliance (AOMedia), which oversees the development of the AV1 video encoding format, has released a statement regarding Sisvel's efforts to form a patent pool to collect royalties for the use of AV1. The AOMedia Alliance is confident that it will be able to overcome these challenges and maintain the free, royalty-free nature of AV1. AOMedia will protect the AV1 ecosystem through a specially created […]

Apache CloudStack 4.12 release

After a year of development, the release of the Apache CloudStack 4.12 cloud platform was presented, which allows you to automate the deployment, configuration and maintenance of private, hybrid or public cloud infrastructure (IaaS, infrastructure as a service). The CloudStack platform was transferred to the Apache Foundation by Citrix, which received the project after acquiring Cloud.com. Installation packages are prepared for RHEL/CentOS and Ubuntu. CloudStack is hypervisor and […]