Author: ProHoster

Realme X2 smartphone will be able to take 32 MP selfies

Realme has published a new teaser image (see below) revealing some details about the mid-range smartphone X2, which will be officially announced soon. It is known that the device will receive a quadruple main camera. As you can see in the teaser, its optical blocks will be grouped vertically in the upper left corner of the body. The main component will be a 64-megapixel sensor. In the front part there will be […]

HP Elite Dragonfly: 6kg Wi-Fi XNUMX and LTE Convertible Laptop

HP has announced the Elite Dragonfly convertible laptop, aimed primarily at business users. The new product has a 13,3-inch touch display that can be rotated 360 degrees to switch the device to tablet mode. Buyers will be able to choose between versions with Full HD (1920 × 1080 pixels) and 4K (3840 × 2160 pixels) screens. An optional Sure View panel with […]

How do regional salaries of developers differ from Moscow ones, given the cost of living

Following our general review of salaries for the first half of 2019, we continue to clarify certain aspects that were either not included in the review or were touched upon only superficially. Today we’ll take a closer look at the regional features of salaries: Let’s find out how much they pay developers living in Russian cities with a million population and smaller cities. For the first time, we will understand how the salaries of regional developers differ from the salaries of Moscow ones, if we also take into account […]

A simple and secure way to automate canary deployments with Helm

Canary deployment is a very effective way to test new code on a subset of users. It significantly reduces the traffic load that can be problematic during the deployment process, as it only occurs within a specific subset. This note is devoted to how to organize such a deployment using Kubernetes and deployment automation. It is assumed that you know something about Helm and […]

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 - [...]

How I didn't become a programmer at 35

From the very beginning of September, publications about successful success on the topic “The childhood of a programmer”, “How to become a programmer after N years”, “How I left for IT from another profession”, “The path to programming”, and so on poured into Habr in a wide stream. Articles like this are written all the time, but now they have become particularly crowded. Every day psychologists write, then […]

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 [...]

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 […]

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 [...]

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 […]