Author: ProHoster

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation is ready to purchase computers with pre-installed Astra Linux OS

The Ministry of Internal Affairs plans to purchase desktop computers pre-installed with Astra Linux OS for its units in 69 cities throughout Russia, with the exception of Crimea. The department plans to purchase 7 sets of a system unit, monitor, keyboard, mouse and webcam. The amount is 770 million rubles. set as the initial maximum contract price in the thematic tender of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. It was announced […]

Graceful shutdown of VMWare ESXi hypervisor at critical battery level of APC UPS

There are many articles out there about how to configure PowerChute Business Edition and how to connect to VMWare from PowerShell, but somehow I couldn’t find all this in one place, with a description of the subtle points. But they exist. 1. Introduction Despite the fact that we have some relation to energy, problems with electricity sometimes arise. This is where […]

GitOps: another buzzword or a breakthrough in automation?

Most of us, noticing another new term in the IT blogosphere or conference, sooner or later ask a similar question: “What is this? Just another buzzword, a “buzzword” or something truly worthy of close attention, study and promise of new horizons?” The same thing happened to me with the term GitOps some time ago. Armed with many existing articles, as well as knowledge […]

Welcome to the Live Webinar - Process Automation with GitLab CI/CD - Oct 29, 15:00 -16:00 (MST)

Expanding your knowledge and moving to the next level Are you just starting to learn the basic principles of Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery or have you already written dozens of pipelines? Regardless of your level of knowledge, join our webinar to understand in practice why thousands of organizations around the world choose GitLab as a key tool for automating IT processes. […]

Scientists have identified 24 planets with better conditions for life than on Earth

Just recently, it would have seemed surprising that astronomers could use telescopes to observe planets around stars hundreds of light years away from our system. But this is so, in which space telescopes launched into orbit greatly helped. In particular, the Kepler mission, which over a decade of work has collected a base of thousands of exoplanets. These archives still need to be studied and studied, and new approaches to [...]

'Wi-Fi that just works': $99 upgraded Google WiFi router unveiled

Last month, the first rumors began to appear that Google was working on a new Wi-Fi router. Today, without much fanfare, the company began selling an updated Google WiFi router in its company online store. The new router looks almost the same as the previous model and costs $99. A set of three devices is offered at a more favorable price - $199. […]

Nintendo sued over unresolved issues with Switch's Joy-Con controllers

It has become known that a class action lawsuit has been filed against Nintendo, authored by a resident of Northern California and her minor son. The statement accuses the manufacturer of not doing enough to fix a hardware problem known as "Joy-Con Drift." It lies in the fact that the analog sticks incorrectly register the player’s movements and periodically operate spontaneously. IN […]

Fixing Twitter Stopping in Firefox

Mozilla has published instructions to resolve an issue that prevents Twitter from opening in Firefox (an error or a blank page is shown). The problem has been appearing since Firefox 81, but only affects a portion of users. As a workaround to restore the ability to open Twitter, it is recommended that you look for the “Origin: https://twitter.com” block on the “about:serviceworkers” page and disable it by clicking the “Unregister” button. The problem is also […]

NasNas 2D Game Development Framework Introduced

The NasNas project is developing a modular framework for developing 2D games in C++, using the SFML library for rendering and focusing on games in the style of pixel graphics. The code is written in C++17 and distributed under the Zlib license. Supports work on Linux, Windows and Android. There is a binding for the Python language. An example is the game History Leaks, created for a competition […]

nVidia introduced Jetson Nano 2GB

nVidia has unveiled the new Jetson Nano 2GB single board computer for IoT and robotics enthusiasts. The device comes in two versions: for 69 USD with 2GB RAM and for 99 USD with 4GB RAM with an expanded set of ports. The device is built on a Quad-core ARM® A57 @ 1.43 GHz CPU and 128-core NVIDIA Maxwell™ GPU, supports Gigabit Ethernet […]

DuploQ - graphical frontend for Duplo (duplicate code detector)

DuploQ is a graphical interface to the Duplo console utility (https://github.com/dlidstrom/Duplo), designed to search for duplicate code in source files (the so-called “copy-paste”). The Duplo utility supports several programming languages: C, C++, Java, JavaScript, C#, but can also be used to search for copies in any text files. For the specified languages, Duplo tries to ignore macros, comments, empty lines and spaces, […]

SK hynix introduced the world's first DDR5 DRAM

The Korean company Hynix presented to the public the first of its kind DDR5 RAM, as reported on the company's official blog. According to SK hynix, the new memory provides data transfer rates of 4,8-5,6 Gbps per pin. This is 1,8 times more than the baseline memory of the previous generation DDR4. At the same time, the manufacturer claims that the voltage on the bar is reduced [...]