Heading: Administration

Checking FreeRDP with the PVS-Studio analyzer

FreeRDP is an open source implementation of the Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), a remote computer control protocol developed by Microsoft. The project supports many platforms, including Windows, Linux, macOS and even iOS with Android. This project was chosen as the first in a series of articles devoted to checking RDP clients using the PVS-Studio static analyzer. A bit of history The FreeRDP project came about after Microsoft […]

Europe will recycle iron data centers

The European Union has approved a project whose task is to develop a methodology for reusing obsolete and broken data center equipment. More details - under the cut. / photo Tristan Schmurr CC BY The essence of the initiative According to Supermicro, half of the world's data centers update equipment every 1-3 years. Most scrapped hardware can be reused, such as reselling undamaged hard drives or […]

The evolution of delivery tools, or thoughts on Docker, deb, jar and more

Somehow at one point I decided to write an article about delivery in the form of docker containers and deb packages, but when I started, for some reason I was carried back to the distant times of the first personal computers and even calculators. In general, instead of dry comparisons of docker and deb, these are the reflections on the topic of evolution, which I present to your judgment. Any product […]

NetXMS as a monitoring system for the lazy... and some comparison with Zabbix

0. Intro I did not find a single article on NetXMS on HabrΓ©, although I was looking for it. And only for this reason I decided to write this creation in order to pay attention to this system. This is a tutorial, and how to, and a superficial overview of the system's capabilities. This article contains a superficial analysis and description of the system's capabilities. I didn't dig deep into the possibilities […]

Account [email protected] found in thousands of MongoDB databases

Dutch security researcher Victor Gevers said he had discovered the Kremlin's hand in an administrative account. [email protected] in more than 2000 open MongoDB databases owned by Russian and even Ukrainian organizations. Among the discovered open MongoDB databases were the bases of Walt Disney Russia, Stoloto, TTK-North-West, and even the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine. The researcher immediately made the only possible conclusion [sarcasm] – the Kremlin, through […]

Ready-made markdown2pdf solution with source code for Linux

A Markdown preface is a great way to write a short article, and sometimes quite a lengthy text, with simple italic and bold formatting. Markdown is also good for writing articles with source code included. But sometimes you want to overtake it without loss, dancing with a tambourine into a regular, well-designed PDF file, and so that there are no […]

How the personal data of patients and doctors could be affected due to the open ClickHouse database

I write a lot about the discovery of freely available databases in almost all countries of the world, but there is almost no news about Russian databases left in the public domain. Although he recently wrote about the "Kremlin's hand", which a Dutch researcher discovered with fright in more than 2000 open databases. There may be a misconception that everything is wonderful in Russia [...]

1. Check Point Getting Started R80.20. Introduction

Welcome to the first lesson! And we will start with the Introduction. Before starting a conversation about Check Point, I would like to first get on the same wavelength with you. To do this, I will try to explain a few conceptual things: What are UTM solutions and why did they come into being? What is Next Generation Firewall or Enterprise Firewall, how do they differ from [...]

Situation: virtual GPUs are not inferior in performance to iron solutions

In February, Stanford hosted a conference on High Performance Computing (HPC). VMware representatives said that when working with a GPU, a system based on a modified ESXi hypervisor is not inferior in speed to bare metal solutions. We talk about the technologies that made it possible to achieve this. / photo Victorgrigas CC BY-SA Performance problem According to analysts, about 70% of workloads in data centers are virtualized. […]

MySpace lost music, photos and videos that users uploaded from 2003 to 2015

Someday this will happen with Facebook, Vkontakte, Google Drive, Dropbox and any other commercial service. All your files on cloud hosting will inevitably be lost over time. How this happens can be seen right now on the example of MySpace, the former Internet giant and the world's largest social network. About a year ago, users noticed that links to music […]