Heading: Administration

Where is this config from? [Debian/Ubuntu]

The purpose of this post is to show a debugging technique in debian/ubuntu related to "finding the source" in the system configuration file. Test example: after much mockery of the tar.gz copy of the installed OS and after restoring it and installing updates, we receive the message: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-4.15.0-54-generic W: initramfs-tools configuration sets RESUME=/dev/mapper/U1563304817I0-swap W: but no matching swap device is available. I: The initramfs […]

Getting rid of "vk.com/away.php" or following the links of a healthy person

By clicking on the links posted on VKontakte, you will notice that, as in other social networks, first there is a transition to a “safe” link, after which the social network decides whether the user should be allowed further or not. Most attentive people noticed the half-second appearance of “vk.com/away.php” in the address bar of the browser, but, of course, did not attach any importance to it. Background One day, a certain programmer, having completed [...]

Convenient database management system

I would like to share my experience in the evolution of using database systems at the online language school GLASHA. The school was founded in 2012 and at the beginning of its work all 12 students studied there, so there were no problems with managing the schedule and payments. However, with the growth, development and emergence of new students, the question of choosing a base system [...]

Developer Tools Panel on InterSystems IRIS

A panel of additional tools for monitoring and investigating errors in applications and integration solutions on the InterSystems IRIS data platform, the Ensemble integration platform and the Caché DBMS, or the story of another bicycle. In this article I want to talk about the application that, along with standard administration tools, I use every day when monitoring applications and integration solutions on the InterSystems IRIS platform and […]

TP-Link T2600G-28SQ Optical Switch for Service Providers: A Detailed Review 

The expansion of large cities and the formation of agglomerations is one of the important trends in social development today. Moscow alone should expand by 2019 million square meters of housing in 4 (and this is not counting the 15 settlements that will be added by 2020). Throughout this vast territory, telecom operators will have to provide users with access to the Internet. It can be […]

DUMP Kazan 2019 is a conference of developers of Tatarstan. We accept applications for reports

Last year we made a trial attempt to bring together IT specialists from different specialties and different companies in Kazan, and it turned out well. 4 participants attended 219 sections: Backend, Frontend, Design and Management. It would seem not enough if not for two “buts”: At the first DUMP Yekaterinburg there were 154 participants, and at DUMP 2019 there were already 1608. Organizers of IT meetups and conferences […]

Account battle. Jeffrey's Coffee founder sues VKontakte

Fraudsters stole the VKontakte page of entrepreneur Alexey Mironov due to a vulnerability in the MTS customer identification system. The social network has never returned it to its owner and is demanding the impossible from him. Now he is suing VKontakte for this. He is represented by the Center for Digital Rights. Alexey Mironov is the founder of the Jeffrey's Coffee chain. This is a franchise of coffee shops in Moscow and [...]

Configuring a Server to Deploy a Rails Application Using Ansible

Not long ago I needed to write several Ansible playbooks to prepare the server for deploying a Rails application. And, surprisingly, I did not find a simple step-by-step manual. I didn’t want to copy someone else’s playbook without understanding what was happening, and in the end I had to read the documentation, collecting everything myself. Perhaps I can help someone speed up this process using this […]

Introducing the new 3CX Call Flow Designer and 3CX CRM Template Generator

New 3CX Call Flow Designer with Visual Expression Editor 3CX adheres to the principle that our products should be simple and understandable. And so we have once again updated the 3CX Call Flow Designer (CFD) voice application development environment. The new version has a modern user interface (new icons) and a visual editor - an editor for expressions used when creating scripts. New […]

Cloudflare Crash Details July 2, 2019

Almost 9 years ago Cloudflare was a tiny company, and I didn’t work for it, I was just a customer. A month after launching Cloudflare, I received an alert that my website jgc.org seemed to have a DNS problem. Cloudflare made a change to Protocol Buffers, and there was a broken DNS. I immediately wrote to Matthew Prince, […]

Medium Weekly Digest (12 – 19 Jul 2019)

If we want to resist this destructive government trend of outlawing cryptography, one of the measures we can take is to use cryptography as much as we can while it is still legal to use. — F. Zimmerman Dear Community members! The Internet is seriously ill. Starting this Friday, we will publish weekly the most interesting notes about events […]

Search for profit or tightening the screws: Spotify stopped working with authors directly - what does it mean

In July, music streaming pioneers Spotify announced that it would be removing access to a feature that allowed creators to upload their own music to the service. Those who managed to take advantage of it during the nine months of beta testing will be forced to republish their tracks through a supported third-party channel. Otherwise they will be removed from the platform. Photo by Paulette Wooten / Unsplash What happened Previously, behind rare […]