The picture is taken from a video from the Militant Amethysts channel. For about 10 years I worked as a system programmer for Linux. These are kernel modules (kernel space), various daemons and working with hardware from user space (user space), various bootloaders (u-boot, etc.), controller firmware and much more. Even sometimes it happened to cut the web interface. But more often it happened that it was necessary [...]
Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) will be the first manufacturer to go back to the white box. The company announced a new campaign for the production of servers from components made in the United States. HPE will monitor supply chain security for US customers through the HPE Trusted Supply Chain initiative. The service is primarily intended for public sector, healthcare and […]
Today you will have a journey into the world of system engineers aka DevOps engineers: an issue about virtualization, containerization, orchestration using kubernetes, and setting up configs through. Docker, kubernetes, ansible, rulebooks, kublets, helm, dockersworm, kubectl, charts, pods - a powerful theory for clear practice. Nikolay Mesropyan and Marcel Ibraev are visiting System Engineers from the Slurm training center and Southbridge at the same time. […]
MTS has published statistics on the Russian smartphone market for the first three quarters of this year: the industry is undergoing a transformation provoked by the pandemic and self-isolation of citizens. From January to September inclusive, it is estimated that Russians purchased about 22,5 million “smart” cellular devices worth more than 380 billion rubles. Compared to the same period in 2019, the growth was 5% in units […]
Founded in May 2019, the private company Reusable Transport Space Systems (MTKS, authorized capital - 400 thousand rubles) signed a cooperation agreement with Roscosmos for 5 years. As part of the agreement, MTKS pledged to create a reusable spacecraft using composite materials capable of delivering and returning cargo from the ISS at half the cost of SpaceX. Apparently, the speech [...]
More than a year since the last release, the release of the network security scanner Nmap 7.90 has been presented, designed to conduct a network audit and identify active network services. 3 new NSE scripts are included to provide automation of various actions with Nmap. More than 1200 new signatures have been added to identify network applications and operating systems. Among the changes in Nmap 7.90: Project […]
The Pension Fund of Russia has announced a tender for “Refinement of application and server software of the module “Management of Electronic Signature and Encryption” (PPO UEPSH and SPO UEPSH) for working with the Astra Linux and ALT Linux operating systems.” As part of this government contract, the Pension Fund of Russia is adapting part of the automated AIS system PFR-2 to work with Russian Linux OS distributions: Astra and ALT. Currently […]
This is how quietly and imperceptibly GOG has grown up! In 12 years, the premier platform for DRM-Free games has gone from a small store of old hits (Good Old Games) and small indie games to the largest distributor of DRM-free games, with a catalog of more than 4300 games - from legendary classics to the hottest new releases. What new GOG has prepared for us in honor of [...]
Before enrolling in a new Machine Learning Advanced course, we test prospective students to determine their level of readiness and understand what exactly they need to offer to prepare for the course. But a dilemma arises: on the one hand, we have to test our knowledge of Data Science, on the other hand, we cannot arrange a full-fledged 4-hour exam. To solve this […]
If you are a developer and you are faced with the task of choosing an encoding, then Unicode is almost always the right choice. The specific representation method depends on the context, but most often there is also a universal answer here - UTF-8. It's nice because it allows you to use all Unicode characters without wasting too many bytes in most cases. True, for languages that do not use […]
Did you know that you can run a Linux command line on an iOS device? You might be asking, “Why should I use text apps on iPhone?” Fair question. But if you're reading Opensource.com, you probably know the answer: Linux users want to be able to use it on any device and want to use their own settings. But most of all they […]
In recent days, there have been two leaks on the Internet dedicated to Starfield, a space RPG from Bethesda Game Studios, which was announced at E3 2018 with a brief teaser. First, one after another, the first screenshots from an early build of the project appeared, and now several other images have leaked. Following this, the alleged source of the leak became known, although this data was later denied. […]
