Author: ProHoster

Samsung Galaxy M30s Smartphone Features 6,4″ FHD+ Screen, 6000mAh Battery

Samsung, as expected, introduced a new mid-level smartphone - the Galaxy M30s, built on the Android 9.0 (Pie) platform with the One UI 1.5 shell. The device received a Full HD+ Infinity-U Super AMOLED display measuring 6,4 inches diagonally. The panel has a resolution of 2340 × 1080 pixels and a brightness of 420 cd/m2. There is a small cutout at the top of the screen - [...]

Master's programs launched in nine Russian universities with the support of Microsoft

On September 1, Russian students from both technical and general universities began studying technology programs developed jointly with Microsoft experts. The classes are aimed at training modern specialists in the field of artificial intelligence and Internet of things technologies, as well as digital business transformation. The first classes within the framework of Microsoft master's programs started at the country's leading universities: Higher School […]

How to properly configure SNI in Zimbra OSE?

At the beginning of the 21st century, a resource such as IPv4 addresses is on the verge of exhaustion. Back in 2011, IANA allocated the last five remaining /8 blocks of its address space to regional Internet registrars, and already in 2017 they ran out of addresses. The response to the catastrophic shortage of IPv4 addresses was not only the emergence of the IPv6 protocol, but also SNI technology, which […]

Russia and China will engage in joint exploration of the Moon

On September 17, 2019, two agreements on cooperation between Russia and China in the field of lunar exploration were signed in St. Petersburg. This was reported by the state corporation for space activities Roscosmos. One of the documents provides for the creation and use of a joint data center for the study of the Moon and deep space. This site will be a geographically distributed information system with [...]

Critical vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel

Researchers have discovered several critical vulnerabilities in the Linux kernel: A buffer overflow in the server side of the virtio network in the Linux kernel, which can be used to cause a denial of service or code execution on the host OS. CVE-2019-14835 The Linux kernel running on the PowerPC architecture does not properly handle Facility Unavailable exceptions in some situations. This vulnerability could be […]

VDS with licensed Windows Server for 100 rubles: myth or reality?

An inexpensive VPS most often means a virtual machine running on GNU/Linux. Today we will check whether there is life on Mars Windows: the testing list included budget offers from domestic and foreign providers. Virtual servers running a commercial Windows operating system usually cost more than Linux machines due to the need for licensing fees and slightly higher requirements for computer processing power. […]

Galaxy Guide DevOpsConf 2019

I present to your attention a guide to DevOpsConf, a conference that this year is on a galactic scale. In the sense that we managed to put together such a powerful and balanced program that a variety of specialists will enjoy traveling through it: developers, system administrators, infrastructure engineers, QA, team leads, service stations and in general everyone involved in the technological development process. We suggest visiting [...]

The Debian project discusses the possibility of supporting multiple init systems

Sam Hartman, the leader of the Debian project, trying to understand the disagreements between the maintainers of the elogind packages (an interface for running GNOME 3 without systemd) and libsystemd, caused by a conflict between these packages and the recent refusal of the team responsible for preparing releases to include elogind in the testing branch, admitted the ability to support several initialization systems in the distribution. If project participants vote in favor of diversifying provisioning systems, […]

Live and learn. Part 4. Learn while working?

— I want to upgrade and take Cisco CCNA courses, then I can rebuild the network, make it cheaper and more trouble-free, and maintain it at a new level. Can you help me with payment? - The system administrator, who has worked for 7 years, looks at the director. “I’ll teach you, and you’ll leave.” What am I, a fool? Go and work, is the expected answer. The system administrator goes to the place, opens [...]

Cisco Training 200-125 CCNA v3.0. Day 44 Introduction to OSPF

Today we will begin learning about OSPF routing. This topic, like the EIGRP protocol, is the most important topic in the entire CCNA course. As you can see, Section 2.4 is titled “Configuring, Testing, and Troubleshooting OSPFv2 Single-Zone and Multi-Zone for IPv4 (Excluding Authentication, Filtering, Manual Route Summarization, Redistribution, Stub Area, VNet, and LSA).” The OSPF topic is quite […]

Vepp is presented - a new server and site control panel from ISPsystem

ISPsystem, a Russian IT company developing software for hosting automation, virtualization and monitoring of data centers, presented its new product “Vepp”. A new panel for managing the server and website. Vepp focuses on technically unprepared users who want to quickly create their own website, not forgetting about reliability and security. Has an intuitive interface. One of the conceptual differences from the previous panel […]