Administration Section
Hello! This article will describe the implementation of PowerShell interaction with the Google API for managing G Suite users. In our organization, we use several internal and cloud services. Most of the time, authentication in them boils down to Google or Active Directory, between which we cannot maintain a replica, so when a new employee joins, we need to create/enable an account […]
An SLA, or 'service-level agreement', is a guarantee agreement between the client and the service provider regarding what the client will receive in terms of service. It also specifies compensations in case of downtime caused by the provider, and so on. Essentially, an SLA is a letter of guarantee that assures potential clients that the data center or hosting provider will make every effort […]
In this article, I will describe step-by-step the process of installing a test server for the amazing Freeacs project until it is fully operational, and demonstrate practical techniques for working with MikroTik: configuration via parameters, executing scripts, updates, installing additional modules, etc. The goal of the article is to encourage colleagues to move away from managing network devices with terrible shortcuts and workarounds, such as […]
According to the latest statistical data, over 33 million Russians use broadband internet. Although the growth of the subscriber base is slowing down, provider revenues continue to riseāpartly due to improvements in the quality of existing services and the emergence of new ones. Seamless Wi-Fi, IP-television, āsmart homeāāto develop these areas, operators need to transition from DSL to faster technologies and upgrade their network equipment. In this […]
Today we have an unusual topic ā a translation of an article about illegal automatic dialing in the USA. Throughout history, there have always been individuals who used technology not for good, but to profit deceitfully from trusting citizens. Modern telecommunications are no exception; spam or outright scams can reach us via SMS, email, or phone. The situation with phones has become even more amusing, […]
This overview note continues the series on backup solutions, written at the request of readers. It will discuss UrBackup, BackupPC, and AMANDA. Overview of UrBackup. At the request of participant VGusev2007, Iām adding a review of UrBackup, a client-server system for backup. It allows you to create full and incremental backups, works with device snapshots (Windows only?), and is capable of creating […]
You may have heard or read about the Call Screening feature that Google rolled out for its Pixel phones in the USA. The idea is excellent ā when you receive an incoming call, a virtual assistant starts interacting, while you see this conversation in chat form and can take over the talk at any moment instead of the assistant. This is very useful for […]
A guide for anyone who needs a name for a product or business ā existing or new. We will discuss how to come up with, evaluate, and choose a name. We spent three months renaming the control panel with hundreds of thousands of users. It was painful, and at the beginning, we lacked guidance. So when we finished, we decided to compile our experience into a manual. We hope it will be useful to someone. […]
We have been following the topic of using systemd in containers for a long time. Back in 2014, our security engineer Daniel Walsh wrote an article titled Running systemd within a Docker Container, and a couple of years later, he wrote another one called Running systemd in a non-privileged container, where he stated that the situation hadn't improved much. In […]
Today, we will begin studying the EIGRP protocol, which, along with studying OSPF, is one of the most important topics in the CCNA course. Later, we will return to section 2.5, but right now we will move from section 2.4 to section 2.6 "Configuring, verifying, and troubleshooting EIGRP for IPv4 (excluding authentication, filtering, manual summarization, redistribution, and stub configuration)." Today we will […]
Translator's Note: The author of the original material is Henning Jacobs from Zalando. He created a new web interface for working with Kubernetes, which is positioned as 'kubectl for the web.' Read in his article why this new open-source project emerged and which criteria the existing solutions did not meet. In this publication, I review various open-source web interfaces for Kubernetes, […]
Introduction Our company, Leaning Technologies, provides solutions for porting traditional desktop applications to the web. Our C++ compiler, Cheerp, generates a combination of WebAssembly and JavaScript, ensuring both ease of interaction with the browser and high performance. As an example of its application, we chose to port a multiplayer game to the web, selecting Teeworlds for this purpose. Teeworlds is a multiplayer 2D retro game […]