Category: Administration

VRAR in the arsenal of digital retail

"I created OASIS because I felt uncomfortable in the real world. I didn't know how to get along with people. I was afraid my whole life. It wasn’t until I realized that the end was near that I understood that despite how cruel and frightening reality can be, it remains the only place where you can find true happiness. Because reality […]

What is "digital transformation" and "digital assets"?

Several years ago, Fabrice Bellard wrote jslinux — a PC emulator written in JavaScript. After that, there was at least Virtual x86. But as far as I know, they were all interpreters, while Qemu, also written significantly earlier by Fabrice Bellard, and probably any self-respecting modern emulator, uses JIT compilation of guest code into code […]

How to Completely Disable Windows Defender Antivirus on Windows 10

Windows 10 has a built-in antivirus, Windows Defender, which protects your computer and data from unwanted programs: viruses, spyware, ransomware, and many other types of malware and hacker activities. Although the built-in solution is sufficient for most users, there are situations where you may not want to use this program. For example, if you […]

How compression works in object-oriented memory architecture

A team of engineers from MIT has developed an object-oriented memory hierarchy for more efficient data handling. This article analyzes how it is structured. / PxHere / PD As is known, the performance growth of modern CPUs is not accompanied by a corresponding decrease in memory access latency. The difference in performance metrics from year to year can reach up to 10 times (PDF, […]

The developer of a popular Linux distribution plans to go public and get involved in cloud services

Canonical, the developer of Ubuntu, is preparing for a public offering. The company plans to expand into cloud computing. / photo NASA (PD) - Mark Shuttleworth on the ISS. Discussions about Canonical's IPO have been ongoing since 2015, when the company's founder, Mark Shuttleworth, announced the possibility of a public offering. The goal of the IPO is to raise funds that will help Canonical […]

What's on the radio? Amateur radio/Ham radio

Hello Habr. In the first part of the article about what’s been heard on the air, we discussed service stations on long and short waves. It’s worth separately mentioning amateur radio stations. Firstly, this is also interesting, and secondly, anyone who wishes can join in this process, both for receiving and transmitting. As in the first parts, the focus will be on […]

3CX V16 Update 1 Beta — new chat features and Call Flow Service for call management software

Following the recent release of 3CX v16, we have prepared the first update, 3CX V16 Update 1 Beta. It includes new features for corporate chat and the updated Call Flow Service, which, along with the Call Flow Designer (CFD) development environment, allows for the creation of complex voice applications in C#. The updated corporate chat. The 3CX Live Chat & Talk communication widget continues […]

If someone is already knocking at the door: how to protect information on devices

Several previous articles in our blog have been dedicated to the issue of personal information security transmitted via messengers and social media. Now it’s time to discuss precautions regarding physical access to devices. How to quickly erase information from a flash drive, HDD, or SSD. Often, it is easiest to destroy information when it is nearby. We are talking about wiping data from […]

Practical Application of ELK. Setting Up Logstash

Introduction When deploying another system, we encountered the need to process a large number of diverse logs. We chose ELK as our tool. This article will discuss our experience in setting up this stack. We do not aim to describe all its capabilities, but rather to focus specifically on solving practical tasks. This is due to the existence of a sufficient number of documentation and already […]

Collection: unboxing hardware of the IaaS provider

We share materials on the unpacking and testing of storage systems and server equipment that we have received and used during various periods of activity for our IaaS provider. Photos are from our review of the NetApp AFF A300 Unboxing of Cisco UCS B480 M5 blade server systems. A review of the compact UCS B480 M5 enterprise-class machine – it accommodates four such servers in the chassis (which we also show) […]

What is currently happening with RDF repositories?

The Semantic Web and Linked Data are akin to the near cosmos: there is no life there. To venture into it for a somewhat extended period... well, I don’t know what you were told as a child in response to the "I want to be an astronaut". However, you can observe what’s happening from Earth; becoming an amateur or even professional astronomer is much easier. This article will discuss recent developments, not older than […]

Jira Integration with GitLab

Objective When we commit in git, we mention any Jira task by name in the comment, after which two things happen: in GitLab, the task name turns into an active link to it in Jira; in Jira, a comment is added to the task with links to the commit and the user who made it, as well as the text of the mention itself. Setup We need a user […]

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