Author: ProHoster

Guide: Your own L2TP VPN

Having rummaged around the Internet in search of software for building your own VPN, you constantly come across a bunch of guides related to the inconvenient setup and use of OpenVPN, which requires a proprietary Wireguard client, only SoftEther from this whole circus is distinguished by adequate implementation. But we will tell, so to speak, about the native Windows implementation of VPN - Routing And Remote Access […]

Top 5 temporary mail services: personal experience

Making a temporary mail service truly comfortable for yourself is not an easy task. It would seem that it’s complicated: I googled the “temporary mail” request, got a bunch of sites in the search results, chose a mailbox and went on to the Internet about my business. But when there is a need to use temporary mail more than once a year, it is better to choose such a site more carefully. I share my […]

Canon unveils EOS R5, its most advanced mirrorless camera with advanced autofocus and 8K video

We've known for a long time that the EOS R5 is getting ready to hit the market, but today the day has come: Canon has officially unveiled the camera. The most notable features of this new R5 full-frame mirrorless camera are the new sensor, built-in image stabilization, and the ability to capture 8K video. All this suggests that the Japanese company not only released a new camera, but […]

NVIDIA is giving away a PC version of Death Stranding with the purchase of GeForce RTX graphics cards

Graphics card manufacturer NVIDIA, in collaboration with game publisher 505 Games and developer Kojima Productions, are holding a joint promotion. As part of it, you can get a free digital copy of the game Death Stranding for PC. When purchasing NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, GeForce RTX 2080 Super, GeForce RTX 2070 Super, GeForce RTX 2060 Super graphics cards, as well as […]

British cellular operators will need at least five years to replace Huawei equipment

Telecoms operators Vodafone and BT have said it will take them at least five years to remove Huawei equipment from their networks in the UK, with Vodafone estimating the cost of the work at several billion pounds. Andrea Dona, head of networks at Vodafone UK, told a committee of British lawmakers that the operator needed to have a "reasonable timescale" of several years to […]

For PostgreSQL, an AGE add-on has been prepared for storing data in the form of a graph

For PostgreSQL, an AGE (AgensGraph-Extension) addition has been proposed with an implementation of the openCypher query language for manipulating sets of interconnected hierarchical data that form a graph. Instead of columns and rows, graph-oriented databases use a structure similar to a network—nodes, their properties, and relationships between nodes are specified. AGE is distributed under the Apache 2.0 license, licensed by Bitnine under the auspices of the Apache Foundation […]

Firefox 80 introduces setting to redirect from HTTP to HTTPS

Firefox developers have continued to develop the “HTTPS Only” mode, when enabled, all requests made without encryption are automatically redirected to secure versions of pages (“http://” is replaced by “https://”). In the nightly builds, on the basis of which Firefox 25 will be released on August 80, a block for managing the inclusion of […]

July Update for KDE Applications 20.04.3

In accordance with the monthly update publication cycle introduced last year, the July summary update of applications developed by the KDE project (20.04.3) is presented. In total, more than 120 programs, libraries and plugins were released as part of the July update. Information about the availability of Live builds with new application releases can be found on this page. The most notable innovations: More than four years since the last […]

5 cyberattacks that could have been easily prevented

Hey Habr! Today we want to talk about new cyber attacks that have recently been discovered by our cyber defense think tanks. Under the cut is a story about a major loss of data by a silicon chip manufacturer, a story about a network shutdown in an entire city, a little bit about the dangers of Google notifications, statistics about hacking the US medical system, and a link to the Acronis YouTube channel. In addition to protecting directly […]

How I recovered data in an unknown format from a magnetic tape

Background As a lover of retro iron, I once bought a ZX Spectrum + from a seller from the UK. Complete with the computer itself, I got several audio cassettes with games (in the original packaging with instructions), as well as programs recorded on cassettes without any special designations. Surprisingly, data from 40-year-old cassettes read well and I was able to download almost all […]

Wi-Fi for a warehouse from the beginning of design to project implementation

Gentlemen, good day. I'll tell you about one of my projects, from the beginning of design to implementation. The article does not claim to be the ultimate truth, I will be glad to hear constructive criticism addressed to me. The events described in this article took place about two years ago. It started when a company approached us with a request to modernize […]

Pandemic spurred sales of laptops in Russia, especially in online stores

The Svyaznoy company announced the results of a study of the Russian laptop computer market in the first half of this year: sales of laptops in our country have increased significantly. It is estimated that between January and June inclusive, Russians purchased approximately 1,5 million laptops. This is an impressive 38% increase compared to the same period in 2019. If we consider the industry in monetary terms, then […]