The release of the Mir 2.0 display server is presented, the development of which continues by Canonical, despite the refusal to develop the Unity shell and the Ubuntu edition for smartphones. Mir remains in demand in Canonical projects and is now positioned as a solution for embedded devices and the Internet of things (IoT). Mir can be used as a composite server for Wayland, allowing it to run in […]
We continue the series of articles on working with the new SMB CheckPoint model range, recall that in the first part we described the characteristics and capabilities of the new models, management and administration methods. Today we will consider the deployment scenario for the older model of the series: CheckPoint 1590 NGFW. Here is a summary of this part: Unpacking the equipment (description of components, physical and network connection). Initial device initialization. Primary setup. […]
Use the full power of the NetworkManager network connection management tool from the Linux command line using the nmcli utility. The nmcli utility directly accesses the API to access the NetworkManager functions. It appeared in 2010 and for many has become an alternative way to configure network interfaces and connections. Although someone is still using ifconfig. Since nmcli is […]
Reading the FAQ on the SSPL MongoDB license, it seems like there's nothing wrong with changing it, unless you're a "big, cool cloud provider." However, I hasten to disappoint you: the consequences for you directly will become much more serious and worse than you might think. What is the impact of the new license on applications built using MongoDB and […]
During the latest broadcast dedicated to demonstrating games for the Xbox Series X, the Dusk Falls project was presented. This is an interactive graphic novel from Interior/Night, a new studio made up of industry veterans and newcomers alike. It is headed by Caroline Marchal, a former lead designer at Quantic Dream who has had a hand in projects such as Heavy Rain […]
Samsung announces that the Galaxy S20 series smartphones will be the first to implement an innovative electronic identification (eID) solution, which, in fact, can replace traditional ID cards. Thanks to the new system, Galaxy S20 owners will be able to securely store ID documents directly on their mobile device. In addition, eID will simplify the process of issuing digital IDs […]
Online sources say that as of earlier this year, more than a thousand Twitter employees and contractors had access to an internal administration tool believed to have been used recently to hack celebrity accounts and commit cryptocurrency scams. Currently, Twitter and the FBI are investigating an incident involving the hacking of the accounts of famous users of the social network, including Barack […]
The Booty program is introduced, which allows you to create bootable initrd images, ISO files or drives that include any GNU/Linux distribution with one command. The code is written in POSIX shell and distributed under the GPLv3 license. All distributions booted using Booty run either SHMFS (tmpfs) or SquashFS + Overlay FS, the user's choice. The distribution is created once, [...]
Users of the mobile version of Firefox for Android are outraged by the misuse of the push notification delivery feature to promote a Mozilla blog post calling for people to sign the StopHateForProfit petition against Facebook's support of hate, racism and misinformation. The notification was sent through the default active channel “default2-notification-channel”, intended for sending important technical notifications. The use of such a channel for delivery is politically [...]
The release of the GNU Binutils 2.35 set of system utilities is presented, which includes programs such as GNU linker, GNU assembler, nm, objdump, strings, strip. In the new version: The assembler has added the option “—gdwarf-5” to generate debug tables “.debug_line” with information about line numbers in DWARF-5 format. Added support for Intel SERIALIZE and TSXLDTRK instructions. Added options "-mlfence-after-load=", '-mlfence-before-indirect-branch=" […]
The translation of the article was prepared on the eve of the start of the course “Linux Administrator. Virtualization and Clustering» Load balancing is a common solution for horizontal scaling of web applications across multiple hosts while providing users with a single point of access to the service. HAProxy is one of the most popular open source load balancing software that also provides high availability and proxying functionality. […]
The translation of the article was prepared on the eve of the start of the course “Linux Administrator. Virtualization and Clustering» Load balancing is a common solution for horizontal scaling of web applications across multiple hosts while providing users with a single point of access to the service. HAProxy is one of the most popular open source load balancing software that also provides high availability and proxying functionality. […]
