The editors at HOSTING.cafe and I have decided to compile a list of discounts from hosting providers for Black Friday. 90% off all virtual hosting services with a monthly or quarterly order. 75% off hosting or VPS servers, $30 off dedicated servers. 70% off for 6 months when ordering hosting or backup hosting services. 70% off hosting, 50% off [ … ]
ghostinushanka, having been mashing buttons for the past 20 minutes as though his life depended on it, turns to me with a half-wild look in his eyes and a sly grin — "Dude, I think I’ve got it." "Check this out," he says, pointing to one of the symbols on the screen — "I bet my red hat that if we add [ … ]
The creation and development of devices for non-volatile digital data storage has been ongoing for many decades. A major breakthrough occurred just less than 20 years ago with NAND memory, although its development started about 20 years earlier. Today, about half a century after the beginning of large-scale research, production, and continuous efforts to improve NAND, this type of memory is close to [ … ]
Mozilla has released the third version of its mobile browser, Firefox Preview, which includes a number of new features. Reports indicate that the new version is now safer and easier to use. Among the features of the new version is an enhanced protection against data collection by websites. Links now open in private tabs by default, and the browser history can be automatically cleared upon exit. [ … ]
After three months of development, the release of systemd 244 is presented. Key changes: Support for the cpuset resource controller based on cgroups v2 has been added, providing a mechanism for binding processes to specific CPUs (setting "AllowedCPUs") and NUMA memory nodes (setting "AllowedMemoryNodes"); Support for loading settings from the EFI variable SystemdOptions for systemd configuration has been added, allowing configuration of systemd's behavior in situations where it is problematic […]
On November 26, 2019, a new version of Kali Linux was released — a Debian testing-based Linux distribution designed for security auditing. The distribution includes tools that can be used for network testing, unauthorized access to data or network services, and disrupting their operation. It can also be useful for investigating violations […]
An experimental release of the open implementation of the Win32 API — Wine 4.21 is now available. Since the release of version 4.20, 50 bug reports have been closed, and 343 changes have been made. The most significant changes include: Implementing the determination of HTTP proxy configuration URLs based on data provided via DHCP; D3DX9 added support for parameter blocks (new calls d3dx_effect_ApplyParameterBlock(), d3dx_effect_BeginParameterBlock(), d3dx_effect_EndParameterBlock(), and d3dx_effect_DeleteParameterBlock() have been added); Work on […]
The release of the Kallithea 0.5 repository management system has been announced, developed by enthusiasts and representatives of the Software Freedom Conservancy to continue the development of the free codebase of RhodeCode after this platform became a semi-proprietary commercial product. Kallithea allows you to deploy development management infrastructure, which supports Git and Mercurial version control systems, and resembles GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket in the tasks it addresses. Code […]
The release of Open CASCADE Technology (OCCT) 7.4.0 is now available, a software product with a twenty-year history, combining a set of libraries and tools for software development focused on 3D modeling, especially for Computer-Aided Design (CAD) systems. Starting from version 6.7.0, the source code is distributed under the GNU LGPL 2.1 license. OCCT primarily represents a single, up-to-date core for geometry […]
The DevOps sphere is evolving very rapidly. The DevOpsDays Moscow team has compiled a list of channels and chats for those interested in DevOps and wanting to stay updated. We also read these channels and even manage some of them. For convenience, we have divided all communities into groups: general, tools, news, and those absent in Telegram. We hope you find it useful. […]
Tomorrow is 'Black Friday' — for online projects, this means peak loads on the website. Even giants may struggle to handle them, as happened with Amazon on Prime Day in 2017. We decided to provide some simple examples of working with virtual servers to avoid mistakes and not greet people with a 503 page or, worse, […]
A new release of the Bubblewrap 0.4.0 toolkit is available, designed for creating isolated environments in Linux and operating at the application level for unprivileged users. In practice, Bubblewrap is used by the Flatpak project as a layer for isolating applications launched from packages. The project code is written in C and is distributed under the LGPLv2+ license. Traditional Linux container isolation technologies are used […]