Author: ProHoster

Chargers for gadgets on the verge of a revolution: the Chinese have learned how to make GaN transistors

Power semiconductors take things up a notch. Instead of silicon, gallium nitride (GaN) is used. GaN inverters and power supplies operate at up to 99% efficiency, delivering the highest efficiency to energy systems from power plants to electricity storage and utilization systems. The leaders of the new market are companies from the USA, Europe and Japan. Now the first company has entered this field […]

The unusual design of the main camera of the OPPO A92s smartphone has been confirmed

The OPPO A92s smartphone appeared in the database of the Chinese Telecommunications Equipment Certification Authority (TENAA), thereby confirming rumors of an upcoming announcement. The unusual design of the main camera with four modules and an LED flash in the center was also confirmed. According to TENAA, the processor frequency is 2 GHz. It is highly likely that we are talking about the Mediatek chipset […]

The total power of Folding@Home exceeded 2,4 exaflops - more than the total of the Top 500 supercomputers

Not long ago, we wrote that the Folding@Home distributed computing initiative now has a total computing power of 1,5 exaflops - this is more than the theoretical maximum of the El Capitan supercomputer, which will not be put into operation until 2023. Folding@Home is now joined by users with an additional 900 petaflops of computing power. Now the initiative is not only 15 times […]

Zimbra wraps up publishing open releases for new branch

The developers of the Zimbra collaboration and email suite, positioned as an alternative to MS Exchange, have changed their open source publishing policy. Starting with the release of Zimbra 9, the project will no longer publish binary assemblies of Zimbra Open Source Edition and will limit itself to releasing only the commercial version of Zimbra Network Edition. Moreover, the developers do not plan to release the Zimbra 9 source code to the community […]

Fedora 33 plans to move to systemd-resolved

A change planned for implementation in Fedora 33 will force the distribution to use systemd-resolved by default for resolving DNS queries. Glibc will be migrated to nss-resolve from the systemd project instead of the built-in NSS module nss-dns. Systemd-resolved performs functions such as maintaining settings in the resolv.conf file based on DHCP data and static DNS configuration for network interfaces, supporting DNSSEC and LLMNR (Link […]

FreeBSD support added to ZFS on Linux

The ZFS on Linux codebase, developed under the auspices of the OpenZFS project as a reference implementation of ZFS, has been amended to add support for the FreeBSD operating system. The code added to ZFS on Linux has been tested on the FreeBSD 11 and 12 branches. Thus, FreeBSD developers no longer need to maintain their own synchronized ZFS on Linux fork and development of all […]

Red Hat Summit 2020 online

For obvious reasons, the traditional Red Hat Summit will be held online this year. Therefore, there is no need to buy air tickets to San Francisco this time. To participate in the conference, a certain amount of time, a more or less stable Internet channel and knowledge of the English language are enough. The event program includes both classic reports and demonstrations, as well as interactive sessions and “stands” of projects […]

Building and configuring your CDN

Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are used in websites and applications primarily to speed up the loading of static elements. This happens due to the caching of files on CDN servers located in different geographical regions. By requesting data via CDN, the user receives it from the nearest server. The principle of operation and functionality of all content delivery networks is approximately the same. Upon receiving a download request […]

Experience in implementing network fabrics based on EVPN VXLAN and Cisco ACI and a small comparison

Evaluate the links in the middle part of the diagram. We will return to them below. At some point, you may encounter the fact that large complex networks based on L2 are terminally ill. First of all, problems related to the processing of BUM traffic and the operation of the STP protocol. In the second - in general, morally obsolete architecture. This causes annoying problems in the form of […]

Engine and 8K texture update: new graphical mod released for STALKER: Clear Sky

Enthusiasts from the Remaster Studio team presented a new graphic modification for S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. It completely changes the visual component, transfers the game to the latest version of the X-Ray engine, adds textures with resolutions from 2K to 8K, new models of characters and enemies, reworks vegetation, and so on. Currently, the authors’ creation is available only to Remaster Studio subscribers on Patreon, […]

Remnant, Metro Exodus, The Last Guardian: PS Store Spring Sale Added Dozens of New Games

The grandiose, as the organizers call it, spring sale on the PlayStation Store, which began with the onset of April, was replenished halfway through with six dozen more products at reduced prices. There are no newbie promotions on the official page yet, but discounts are already in effect. The full list of offers that appeared today can be found on the PSPrices website. As is the case with [...]