Author: Yuri Gagarin

.ORG Domain Zone Sold to Private Company. Public Calls for ICANN to Terminate Contract

The American nonprofit organization The Internet Society (ISOC) is selling its assets, including the operator Public Interest Registry (PIR), which manages the .org domain zone. Established in the "public interest" for public organizations, the domain zone is passing into the hands of the commercial firm Ethos Capital for an undisclosed sum. The deal is expected to close in Q1 2020 (see press release). Thus, the registry of 10 […]

Battle of L2TP, RRAS vs SoftEther

"Stolen image from the West meant to grab attention" In our previous articles, we discussed how to work with VDS on Windows Server Core 2019 on our new UltraLight plan for 99 rubles per month. We offer another way to use this plan. This time, we will talk about what to choose if you need a VPN for lazy users […]

How HP Support Works - Welcome or No Entry for Outsiders

Hello to all Habr users! I want to share a story about a pressing issue because I don't know where else to complain. About six months ago, I started changing my equipment, tired of the Apple life. It seemed to me, and still seems, that the folks in Cupertino have begun to slow down technological advancements. We've all heard about the scandalous news; I won't repeat it. I started ruthlessly selling […]

Release of Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.1

Proxmox, known for developing the Proxmox Virtual Environment distribution for deploying virtual server infrastructures, has announced the release of Proxmox Mail Gateway 6.1. Proxmox Mail Gateway is presented as a ready-made solution for quickly establishing a system for controlling email traffic and protecting the internal mail server. The installation ISO image is available for free download. Components specific to the distribution are released under the AGPLv3 license. For […]

A new version of CMake 3.16.0 has been released.

A new version of the popular build system CMake 3.16.0 and accompanying tools CTest and CPack, which facilitate testing and packaging respectively, has been released. Key changes include CMake now supporting Objective-C and Objective-C++. This support is enabled by adding OBJC and OBJCXX to project() or enable_languages(). Thus, *.m and *.mm files will be compiled as Objective-C or C++, otherwise, they will be considered as […]

Salty solar energy

Harnessing and utilizing solar energy is one of humanity's most significant achievements in terms of energy. The main challenge now lies not in collecting solar energy, but in its storage and distribution. If this issue can be resolved, traditional enterprises operating on fossil fuels could be sent into retirement. SolarReserve is a company that offers to use molten salt […]

NILFS2 — a bulletproof file system for /home

As is well known, if something can go wrong, it will definitely happen. Probably everyone has experienced cases where an important file was accidentally deleted, or text in a text editor was inadvertently selected and removed. If you are a host or a website owner, you have probably encountered user accounts or your own site being hacked. In such cases, it is important to restore the timeline, […]

HP: Your original disk is not original at all. Who is to blame and what to do?

When working with hardware, whether consumer or business segments — it is hard to imagine anything that generates as much 'love and adoration' for the manufacturer as 'whitelists' of compatible equipment and consumables. It seems everything is fine: there are no obstacles for the device to function, but when connecting, we receive something like 'your device is not supported, I don’t want to work with it', and […]

What will remain in the server?

Many organizations use cloud services or move equipment to data centers. What makes sense to keep in the server room, and how should the perimeter defense of the office network be organized in such a situation? Once, everything was on the server. At the beginning of the development of Runet, most companies dealt with IT infrastructure issues in a similar way: a room was allocated, air conditioning was installed, and nearly […]

Release of CMake build system 3.16

The release of the cross-platform open-source build script generator CMake 3.16 has been announced, serving as an alternative to Autotools and used in projects such as KDE, LLVM/Clang, MySQL, MariaDB, ReactOS, and Blender. CMake is written in C++ and is distributed under the BSD license. Notably, CMake provides a simple scripting language, means to extend functionality through modules, and minimal dependencies (no binding to […]

A bug has been discovered in the Linux kernel that causes certain programs using AVX to malfunction.

In the Linux kernel, starting from version 5.2, a bug has manifested that leads to corruption of the AVX register contents when returning from a signal handler triggered during an exception (page fault). The issue occurs when running multi-threaded programs ('-pthread') that involve computations with the AVX register, if the kernel is built with GCC 9 (building with earlier versions of GCC does not exhibit the bug […]

Release of the Kali Linux 2019.4 distribution for security system research

The release of Kali Linux 2019.4 has been announced, intended for testing systems for vulnerabilities, conducting audits, analyzing residual data, and identifying the consequences of attacks by malicious actors. All original developments created within the distribution are distributed under the GPL license and are available through a public Git repository. Several ISO image options have been prepared for download, sized at 1.1, 2.6, and 3.1 GB. The builds are available for […]

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