Category: Administration

Is it time for URLs containing emojis?

Emoji domains have existed for many years, but still have not gained popularity [Unfortunately, the Habr editor does not allow emojis in the text. Emoji links can be found in the original text of the article (a copy of the article on the Archive site) / translator's note.] If you enter ghostemoji.ws and .ws in your browser’s address bar, you will end up at two different […]

Intel GPU SGX — store your data on the graphics card. Guaranteed.

The Intel Xe graphics card with GPU SGX support Since the announcement that Intel would be developing its own discrete graphics card, the progressive public has been waiting for plans to turn into something tangible. Few technical details are known at this time, but today we can share something specific and important. It has been revealed that the upcoming graphics card […]

How to Quickly Boost Your Wireless Network

Wireless data transmission technologies have firmly established their place in our lives. Daily, often without realizing it, we benefit from this achievement of civilization at home, in the office, on the way home, or while relaxing on the beaches of sunny, warm countries. Our voices, our images, all the pieces of the digital world that are so dear to us, are almost always connected at some stage […]

Rescuing a partition in Debian when something goes wrong

Good afternoon, dear friends. It was Thursday evening and one of our admins was supposed to resize a disk on one of the KVM virtual machines. It may seem like a trivial task, but it can lead to data loss altogether… And so… the whole story is under the cut. As I mentioned — Thursday evening (seems like a little rain […

Remote monitoring and management of Linux/OpenWrt/Lede devices through port 80, continuation

This is the final part of the article, here is the beginning habr.com/ru/post/445568 Last time I wrote about how I implemented device monitoring, now we will discuss management. In discussions with the “techies” from the Customer's side, I often find a limited perception of the capabilities of such small devices (with low memory and performance resources); many believe that “the most we will need is to send […]

50-Year-Old Modem: An Inside Look

A few years ago, the author visited a flea market organized by W6TRW at the Northrop Grumman parking lot in Redondo Beach, California. Among televisions resembling polar bears and numerous phone chargers and power adapters, there was a wooden box with a lock, a wooden handle, and a DB-25 connector on the side. Next to the connector was a switch: half-duplex – full duplex. The author realized that […]

Was MongoDB truly the right choice?

Recently, I learned that Red Hat is removing support for MongoDB from Satellite (reportedly due to license changes). This made me reflect that in recent years, I've seen a slew of articles criticizing MongoDB and claiming it should never be used. However, during this time, MongoDB has become a much more mature product. What happened? Did all […]

Introducing 3CX V16 with a communication widget for the website

Last week, we launched 3CX v16 and the 3CX Live Chat & Talk communication widget, which can work with any website, not just on WordPress CMS. 3CX v16 allows customers to quickly connect with your company, offering powerful and efficient ticket processing technologies – a call center with call distribution based on agent qualification, a web service for quality monitoring […]

How to protect yourself from hypoviruses

According to the human rights organization 'Kämpa för munkar', the activity of hypoviruses has doubled over the last month. The map created from an American satellite shows the infected areas. Statistics claim that over half of the files circulating online are infected with some variety of this pestilence, including: • torrent files – 5%, • porn videos – 21%, • […]

Yandex.Alice and Telegram bot on PHP with a unified functionality

Good afternoon. There are many articles about Telegram bots, but few discuss skills for Alice, and I found no information on how to create a unified bot. Therefore, I decided to share my experience on how to make a simple Telegram bot and a Yandex.Alice skill for a website with shared functionality. So, how to set up a web server and obtain an SSL certificate I […]

Backups Ready: Debunking Myths in Celebration

Backup is not a trendy technology that everyone is shouting about. It is simply a must-have in any serious company, and that's it. In our bank, we back up several thousand servers — it's a complex and interesting job, and I want to talk about some of the nuances of it, as well as common misconceptions about backups. This topic […]

Open Rack v3: What to Expect from the New Standard in Rack Architecture

It will find application in hyperscale data centers. / photo Not4rthur CC BY-SA Why the specification was updated Engineers from the Open Compute Project (OCP) presented the first version of the standard back in 2013. It described a modular and open rack design for data centers with a width of 21 inches. This approach allowed the rack's effective space utilization ratio to increase to 87.5%. In comparison, […]

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