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From classics and modernism to fantasy and steampunk — what system administrators are reading

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When chatting with fellow administrators about literature, we discovered that we enjoy books from a wide range of genres and styles. This piqued our interest to conduct a survey among Selectel's system administrators on three topics: their favorite classics, their current favorite books, and what they are reading now. The result is an extensive literary selection where sysadmins share their personal impressions of the books they've read. In […]

Guide to Dimensions

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Good day to everyone. Would you like to travel a bit? If so, I present to you a small surreal universe containing a variety of strange fairy-tale fantasy worlds. We will visit some of the atmospheres that I create for use in my role-playing games. Unlike detailed, heavy settings, these atmospheres contain only the broadest details, conveying the atmosphere and uniqueness of the world. […]

usbrip

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usbrip is a forensic tool with a command-line interface that allows tracking artifacts left by USB devices. It is written in Python3. It analyzes logs to create event tables, which may contain the following information: date and time of device connection, user, vendor ID, product ID, and more. Additionally, the tool can: export collected information as a JSON dump; generate a list of authorized […]

How to become a product manager and grow further

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It’s hard to give a universal definition of the roles and responsibilities of a product manager: in each company, they differ, making the transition to this position a challenging task with unclear requirements. Over the past year, I have interviewed more than fifty candidates for the junior product manager position and noticed that most of them have no idea about […]

Release of wayland-protocols 1.18

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The release of the wayland-protocols 1.18 package has been announced, containing a set of protocols and extensions that enhance the capabilities of the base Wayland protocol and provide the necessary functionalities for building composite servers and user environments. Version 1.18 includes minor additions to existing protocols, improved documentation, and fixes for identified bugs. The release of Weston 7.0 and Wayland 1.18 is expected on August 23. Currently included in […]

Update Exim 4.92.1 addressing a vulnerability

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An unscheduled release of the Exim mail server 4.92.1 has been published, which fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-13917) allowing remote code execution with root privileges if certain specific configurations are present. The vulnerability manifests starting from release 4.85 when using the operator '${sort }' settings, in cases where elements in the 'sort' list can be passed by an attacker (for example, through […]

Release of the multimedia library SDL 2.0.10

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The release of the SDL 2.0.10 (Simple Direct Layer) library has taken place, aimed at simplifying the development of games and multimedia applications. The library provides tools such as hardware-accelerated output for 2D and 3D graphics, input handling, sound playback, 3D output through OpenGL/OpenGL ES, and many other related operations. The library is written in C and is distributed under the zlib license. To utilize the capabilities of SDL […]

Don't go walk in Africa: what's the situation with internet censorship on the Black continent

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The last few years have been marked not only by the rapid development of internet technologies and the penetration of the internet into regions of the planet where even ordinary mobile communication is difficult. Tools for internet censorship have been developed and adopted by officials, including bans on websites and services, monitoring user messages in email and chat services, DPI packet filtering, and much more. Journalists from well-known […]

Helsinki. How to find a job in the Finnish gaming industry, start working without a permit, and not violate Russian laws

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In December 2018, my wife and I moved from Saint Petersburg to Helsinki. There are already quite a few articles and (video) blogs about what life is like in Finland and whether it's worth moving here. Instead, I would like to share the part of the story related to the move itself. We had to tackle a plethora of issues of varying importance, many of which arose […]

hugo v0.56.0

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Hugo is a static HTML and CSS website generator written in Go. The improvements are as follows: Templates: The Merge function has been added. The interface has expanded. The ability to convert numeric values to float64 and compare them has been implemented. Greater error detail in Where. An error message is returned for incorrect input in In. Core: A symdiff test has been added. The test file has been added to .gitignore. The possibility of parallel […]

System Administrator Day, 20 years!

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For 20 years now, on the last Friday of July, it has been a tradition, established on July 28, 1999 by Ted Kekatos, a system administrator from Chicago, to celebrate System Administrator Appreciation Day. From the author of this news: I sincerely want to congratulate those who support phone and computer networks, administer servers and workstations. Here's to a stable connection, with no glitches […]

VAIO ThinBoot ZERO Type V: a mobile thin client with a 13.3" display

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The VAIO brand has announced the ThinBoot ZERO Type V portable computer, built on Intel hardware and the Microsoft operating system. The new model is positioned as a mobile thin client. It can connect to a computer network using either a wired or wireless connection. In the first case, data transmission is handled by a Gigabit Ethernet controller, while in the second — by a Wi-Fi adapter IEEE802.11a/b/g/n/ac. Additionally, it is possible to […]

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