Author: ProHoster

Huawei P30 and P30 Pro First Impressions: Incredible Zoom Smartphones

Top Huawei smartphones are no longer divided into conventionally “folk” (P series) and “for business” (Mate series). We are simply talking about the spring flagship, which demonstrates the company’s achievements (primarily in the development of a mobile camera), and the autumn flagship, which represents the fresh HiSilicon platform. A kind of Huawei tick-tock, spied on by Intel. Both in size, and in the diagonal of the display, and in the noticeable [...]

Review of the smartphone moto g7: jump into the cage with lions

What is a Motorola phone in 2019? The first thing that comes to mind is the RAZR flip phone that is returning to the market. Attempts to play on nostalgia are inevitable; the success of the reborn Nokia throws more fuel into this stove. The second is the modular design, which, as expected, did not work out, but Lenovo, apparently, continues to follow this line out of principle. The third is “pure” Android, which [...]

Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 smartphone review: shifting horizon

In 2018, Xiaomi amazed with the density of its announcements - it is already becoming extremely difficult to understand the family of smartphones from this company, which is rapidly developing after some stagnation two years ago. An endless number of modifications, series, subseries, internal competition. Even choosing a flagship is not easy – both Mi MIX 3 and Mi 9 are candidates for this role. Let’s not try to embrace the immensity […]

NetworkManager 1.26.0 release

A stable release of the interface has been introduced to simplify the configuration of network parameters - NetworkManager 1.26.0. Plugins to support VPN, OpenConnect, PPTP, OpenVPN and OpenSWAN are developed within their own development cycles. Main features of NetworkManager 1.26: Added a new build option 'firewalld-zone', when enabled, NetworkManager will set a zone for connection sharing in the dynamic firewalld firewall, and when enabled […]

Release of the OTOBO ticket system, fork of OTRS

Rother OSS has unveiled the first stable release of the OTOBO 10.0.1 ticket system, a fork of OTRS CE. The system is designed to solve such tasks as ensuring the operation of the technical support service (help desk), managing responses to customer requests (phone calls, email), coordinating the provision of corporate IT services, managing requests in the sales and financial services. The OTOBO code is written in Perl and distributed […]

SMB solutions Check Point. New models for small companies and branches

Relatively recently (in 2016), Check Point presented its new devices (both gateways and management servers). The key difference from the previous line is a significantly increased performance. In this article, we will focus exclusively on the younger models. Let's describe the advantages of new devices and possible pitfalls that are not always talked about. We will also share our personal impressions of their […]

An example of an event-driven application based on webhooks in the S3 object storage of Mail.ru Cloud Solutions

Rube Goldberg coffee machine Event-driven architecture increases the cost efficiency of the resources used, because they are activated only when they are needed. There are many options for how to implement this and not create additional cloud entities as worker applications. And today I will not talk about FaaS, but about webhooks. I will show a case study of event handling using […]

Adding a node to the Skydive topology manually via the Skydive client

Skydive is an open source real-time network topology and protocol analyzer. It aims to provide a comprehensive way to understand what is going on in the network infrastructure. To interest you, I will give a couple of screenshots about Skydive. A little lower there will be a post on the introduction to Skydive. Post "Introduction to skydive.network" on Habré. Skydive displays the network topology, […]

Simple UDP hole punching using an IPIP tunnel as an example

Good time of the day! In this article I want to tell you how I implemented (another) Bash script to connect two computers behind NAT using UDP hole punching technology using Ubuntu/Debian OS as an example. Establishing a connection consists of several steps: Starting the node and waiting for the remote node to be ready; Determining the external IP address and UDP port; Transferring the external IP address and […]

Direct VPN tunnel between computers through NATs of providers (without VPS, using STUN server and Yandex.disk)

Continuation of the article on how I managed to organize a direct VPN tunnel between two computers behind ISP NATs. The last article described the process of organizing a connection with the help of a third party - an intermediary (a rented VPS acting as something like a STUN server and a node data transmitter for connection). In this article I will tell you how I managed without VPS, but intermediaries remained […]

Review of the Xiaomi Mi 9 smartphone: a candidate from the people

It all started with licensed smartphones of the Mi series for Xiaomi - Redmi and all sorts of variations in the style of Mi Max or Mi Mix began much later. Therefore, to release its flagship, ready to compete with "real" A-brands (this concept has been pretty blurred lately) and second-line flagships (Honor, OnePlus), is critically important for the company. XiaomiMi […]

BQ Strike Power / Strike Power 4G smartphone review: budget long-liver

While A-brands compete to fit the maximum number of cameras in their flagships and vying with each other to offer flexible devices, the main sales in the world are still in the budget segment, which digests all innovations slowly and selectively. BQ Strike Power is a classic example of a budget device, in which everything conditionally superfluous is discarded: design delights, a powerful […]