My name is Peter Zaitsev, I am the CEO, founder of Percona and I want to tell you: how we came from open source solutions to Database as a Service; what approaches exist to deploying databases in the cloud; how Kubernetes can replace DBaaS, eliminating vendor dependency and maintaining the simplicity of DBMS as a service. This article is based on a talk at @Databases Meetup […]
For several years now I have been supporting 10 workstations running Microsoft Windows 8.1 at the university. Basically, support consists of installing the software necessary for the educational process and ensuring overall performance. Each station has 2 users: Administrator and Student. The administrator has full control; the Student does not have the ability to install software. In order not to bother […]
Call of Duty: Warzone users are constantly sharing their achievements in the battle royale. Not long ago, one player showed how he shot an enemy with a revolver at a great distance. And now a man under the pseudonym Lambeauleap80 has demonstrated a masterful deception move. He pretended to be dead, thanks to which he managed to lull the enemy’s vigilance and kill him. A user posted a video on the Reddit forum […]
The organizers of the upcoming consumer electronics exhibition IFA 2020 have announced new details about its holding amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The announcement released today indicates that this time IFA will be held without one of the key events - Global Markets, which has been held at the exhibition since 2016. The traditional goal of Global Markets is to bring together OEM/ODM manufacturers, retailers and […]
EA Access subscription page has appeared on Steam. It states that users of the Valve service will be able to access numerous Electronic Arts games and other bonuses. Subscriptions don't work on Steam yet, but that will change soon. EA Access gives you the opportunity to play a ton of Electronic Arts titles, early access to some new releases, exclusive challenges, […]
The author of the OrNetRadar project, which monitors the connection of new groups of nodes to the anonymous Tor network, published a report identifying a large operator of malicious Tor exit nodes that is trying to manipulate user traffic. In accordance with the above statistics, on May 22, a large group of malicious nodes were detected connecting to the Tor network, as a result of which the attackers gained control of traffic, covering 23.95% […]
The GNU Project has published the release of the GNU Emacs 27.1 text editor. Until the release of GNU Emacs 24.5, the project developed under the personal leadership of Richard Stallman, who handed over the post of project leader to John Wiegley in the fall of 2015. Added improvements include: Built-in tab bar support ('tab-bar-mode') for treating windows as tabs; Using the HarfBuzz library to render text; […]
A release of the desktop-oriented distribution GhostBSD 20.08, built on the TrueOS platform and offering the MATE user environment, is available. By default, GhostBSD uses the OpenRC init system and the ZFS file system. Both work in Live mode and installation on a hard drive are supported (using its own ginstall installer, written in Python). Boot images are created for x86_64 architecture (2.5 GB). […]
It is finished, brothers and sisters! The long-awaited (jokes aside - the release process was so long that even the developers themselves began to laugh about it in the emacs-devel mailing list) release of the emacs-lisp runtime system, which implements a text editor, a file manager, an email client, a package installation system and many different functions. In this release: built-in support for arbitrarily sized integers (Emacs has great built-in […]
A new version of darktable, a free photo culling and workflow application, has been released. Main changes: The photo viewing mode has been rewritten: the interface has been improved, rendering has been accelerated, the ability to choose what is shown on photo thumbnails has been added, the ability to manually add CSS rules for the selected theme has been added, scaling settings have been added (tested on monitors up to 8K). The program settings dialog has been reorganized. To the editor […]
Vector, designed to collect, transform and send log data, metrics and events. → Github Being written in the Rust language, it is characterized by high performance and low RAM consumption compared to its analogues. In addition, much attention is paid to functions related to correctness, in particular, the ability to save unsent events to a buffer on disk and rotate files. Architecturally Vector […]
Useful links to live events, videos, meetups, tech talks and books are below in our weekly post. Start New: Installing Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes How to configure Red Hat OpenShift 4 to install Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management (ACM) for Kubernetes and then perform the installation. New Features in Red Hat CodeReady Studio 12.16.0.GA […]
