Author: ProHoster

NVIDIA postponed the start of sales of the GeForce RTX 3070 for two weeks, so as not to repeat the failure with the GeForce RTX 3080

If difficulties with the supply of GeForce RTX 3080 and GeForce RTX 3090 video cards could still be attributed to excessively high demand, then problems with capacitors on the first batch of video cards definitely worked against NVIDIA’s reputation. Under these conditions, the company decided to postpone the start of sales of the GeForce RTX 3070 from October 15 to October 29. A corresponding appeal to the audience of game lovers […]

Nextcloud Hub 20 Collaboration Platform Launched

The release of the Nextcloud Hub 20 platform has been presented, providing a self-sufficient solution for organizing collaboration between enterprise employees and teams developing various projects. At the same time, the underlying cloud platform Nextcloud Hub was published, Nextcloud 20, which allows you to deploy cloud storage with support for synchronization and data exchange, providing the ability to view and edit data from any device anywhere in the network (with […]

Is it possible to generate random numbers if we don't trust each other? Part 2

Hey Habr! In the first part of the article, we discussed why it might be necessary to generate random numbers for participants who do not trust each other, what requirements are put forward for such random number generators, and considered two approaches to their implementation. In this part of the article, we will take a closer look at another approach that uses threshold signatures. A bit of cryptography In order to […]

PostgreSQL Antipatterns: "Infinity is not the limit!", or A little bit about recursion

Recursion is a very powerful and convenient mechanism if the same actions are performed “in depth” on related data. But uncontrolled recursion is an evil that can either cause the process to run forever or (which happens more often) to "guzzle out" all available memory. DBMS in this regard work according to the same principles - "they said to dig, I dig." […]

“For us, the main thing is the desire to learn and develop in DevOps” - teachers and mentors about how they teach at the DevOps school

Autumn is an amazing time of the year. While schoolchildren and students begin the school year with longing for summer, nostalgia for the old days and a craving for knowledge wake up in adults. Fortunately, it's never too late to learn. Especially if you want to become a DevOps engineer. This summer, our colleagues launched the first stream of the DevOps school and are preparing to start the second one in November. If you […]

HP gives Specter x360 13 convertible laptop 5G support

HP has announced the next generation Specter x360 13 premium notebook with Intel Evo certification: the device uses an eleventh generation Core processor from the Tiger Lake family with Iris Xe graphics. The laptop is equipped with a 13,3-inch display that supports touch control. The panel can rotate 360 ​​degrees, allowing for various modes, including tablet mode. The maximum configuration involves the use of an OLED matrix […]

HP Specter x360 14 laptop gets Intel Tiger Lake processor and 3K OLED screen

HP introduced the Specter x360 14 convertible laptop with a range of smart features and long battery life. The new product will go on sale in November, and the price will start at $1200. The maximum configuration uses an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display with 100% coverage of the DCI-P3 color space. A 13,5-inch 3K format matrix with a resolution of 3000 × 2000 pixels is used […]

Google will disclose information about vulnerabilities in third-party Android devices

Google has introduced the Android Partner Vulnerability initiative, which plans to disclose data on vulnerabilities in Android devices from various OEMs. The initiative will make it more transparent to users about vulnerabilities specific to firmware with modifications from third-party manufacturers. Until now, official vulnerability reports (Android Security Bulletins) have only reflected problems in the underlying code […]

Release of virt-manager 3.0.0, interface for managing virtual environments

Red Hat has released a new version of the graphical interface for managing virtual environments - Virt-Manager 3.0.0. The Virt-Manager shell is written in Python/PyGTK, is an add-on to libvirt and supports management of systems such as Xen, KVM, LXC and QEMU. The project code is distributed under the GPLv2 license. The program provides tools for visually assessing statistics on the performance and resource consumption of virtual machines, […]

Release of Stratis 2.2, a toolkit for managing local storage

The release of the Stratis 2.2 project has been published, developed by Red Hat and the Fedora community to unify and simplify the means for configuring and managing a pool of one or more local drives. Stratis provides features such as dynamic storage allocation, snapshots, integrity and caching layers. The project code is written in Rust and is distributed under the […]

History of the Dodo IS Architecture: An Early Monolith

Or every unhappy company with a monolith is unhappy in its own way. The development of the Dodo IS system began immediately, like the Dodo Pizza business, in 2011. It was based on the idea of ​​complete and total digitization of business processes, and on their own, which even then in 2011 raised many questions and skepticism. But for 9 years now we have been going […]

History of the Dodo IS Architecture: The Back Office Path

Habr is changing the world. We have been blogging for over a year. About six months ago we received quite logical feedback from Khabrovsk residents: “Dodo, you say everywhere that you have your own system. What kind of system is this? And why does the pizzeria chain need it?” We sat and thought and realized that you are right. We try to explain everything with our fingers, but [...]