The release of the diagnostic utility htop 3.0 has been announced, providing tools for interactive process monitoring in the style of the top program. The project's code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The utility is notable for features such as free vertical and horizontal scrolling of the process list, tools for evaluating SMP performance and utilization of each CPU core, a tree view mode, flexible interface customization options, and support for […]
Starting with Fedora version 33, the Fedora IoT project, positioned as a comprehensive solution for the Internet of Things, will receive official release status. Over the past few years, the Fedora team has been developing a distribution tailored for the concept of the 'Internet of Things.' This fall, starting with the Fedora 33 release, this project eagerly anticipates its first official release. […]
Greetings to our readers in our series of articles dedicated to SMB Check Point, specifically the 1500 series model line. In the first part, we mentioned the ability to manage your SMB series NGFW through the cloud service Security Management Portal (SMP). Finally, it is time to discuss it in more detail, demonstrating the available options and administration tools. For those who have just joined […]
In this article, I want to share my experience using open-source systems Zabbix and Grafana for visualizing the operation of production lines. This information may be useful for those looking for a quick way to visually depict or analyze collected data in industrial automation or IoT projects. This article is not a detailed guide; rather, it is a concept of a monitoring system based on open software […]
NPM developers have warned about the removal of the fallguys package from the repository due to detected malicious activity. Aside from displaying an ASCII graphic splash screen featuring a character from the game "Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout", this module included code attempting to transfer some system files via webhook to the Discord messenger. The module was published in early August but only managed to get 288 downloads before […]
I collect all the most important texts of all time and peoples that influence our worldview and understanding of the world ('Ontol'). And here, after thinking for a while, I propose a bold hypothesis that this text is more revolutionary and important in our understanding of the structure of the world than the Copernican revolution and the works of Kant. In the Russian internet, this text (full version) was in terrible condition, […]
A couple of days ago, we completed one of the most emotionally charged events that we were lucky enough to host on our blog — a hacker online game with server destruction. The results exceeded all our expectations: participants not only joined but quickly organized into a cohesive community of 620 people on Discord, which literally stormed the quest over the course of two days without a break for […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of WinAPI — Wine 5.16 has been made. Since the release of version 5.15, 21 bug reports have been closed and 221 changes have been made. The most important changes include: support for AVX registers on x86 added in ntdll. Improved ARM64 support for macOS. Ongoing work on restructuring console support. Bug reports related to the operation of games and applications have been closed: Memorex […]
The enthusiast community is pleased to present the new version of Pleroma — a blogging server with text markup, written in Elixir and utilizing the standardized W3C ActivityPub federation protocol. This is the second most widespread implementation of the server. Compared to the nearest competing project — Mastodon, written in Ruby and operating in the same ActivityPub network — Pleroma boasts a smaller size and […]
An initial prototype of the experimental openSUSE Jump distribution is available for testing, created as part of the initiative to merge the development and compilation processes of openSUSE Leap and SUSE Linux Enterprise distributions. ISO images, sized at 3.8 GB, are offered for download, prepared for x86_64, Aarch64, ppc64le, and s390x architectures. The traditional openSUSE distribution is formed based on the core set of SUSE Linux Enterprise packages, but the packages […]
The release of Supertuxkart 1.2 has been published, a free racing game with a large number of tracks, maps, and features. The game's code is distributed under the GPLv3 license. Binary builds are available for Linux, Android, Windows, and macOS. In this release: for low-level window creation and input processing, the SDL2 library has replaced the Irrlicht engine. The use of SDL2 has significantly improved gamepad support, in addition to […]
Introduction Some time ago, I was tasked with developing a fault-tolerant cluster for PostgreSQL, operating across several data centers connected by fiber optics within a single city, and capable of withstanding the failure (e.g., power outage) of one data center. For the software responsible for fault tolerance, I chose Pacemaker, as it is the official solution from RedHat for creating fault-tolerant clusters. It is beneficial because […]