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In this article, I will list the most interesting conclusions and checklists that I found in Raf Koster's book 'Theory of Fun for Game Design.' But first, just a bit of background information: — I liked the book. — The book is short, easy and interesting to read. Almost like a novel. — Raf Koster is an experienced game designer, who […]
A few days ago, it was reported that Microsoft began deploying the Windows 10 May 2019 Update to all PCs worldwide. And while the complete cycle will take time, it is already known that the update has issues. If users try to install update 1903 on a device with incompatible drivers and software, there is a chance that the update will not appear, and the assistant […]
Another user wants to write a new piece of data to the hard drive, but they do not have enough free space for that. They also don't want to delete anything, as "everything is very important and necessary." So what should we do with them? This problem is faced by more than just them. Terabytes of information are lying on our hard drives, and this amount is not shrinking […]
Today, we decided to talk about the tools that IT companies and IaaS providers use for automating work with networks and engineering systems. / Flickr / Not4rthur / CC BY-SA Implementing software-defined networks It is expected that with the launch of 5G networks, IoT devices will find truly widespread adoption — according to some estimates, their number will exceed 50 billion by 2022. Experts note that […]
New builds of BlackArch Linux have been prepared, a specialized distribution for security research and system protection studies. The distribution is built on the Arch Linux package base and includes about 2200 security-related utilities. The project-supported package repository is compatible with Arch Linux and can be used in regular Arch Linux installations. The builds are prepared as a Live image of size 11.4 GB […]
According to International Data Corporation (IDC), there is a decline in sales in the global printing equipment market (Hardcopy Peripherals, HCP). The presented statistics cover deliveries of traditional printers of various types (laser, inkjet), multifunction devices, and copying machines. The review includes equipment in formats A2–A4. It is reported that in the first quarter of this year, the global market volume in unit terms was 22.8 […]
Ahead of DevOpsConf, Vitaly Khabarov interviewed Dmitry Stolyarov (distol), the technical director and co-founder of the company “Flant.” Vitaly asked Dmitry about what Flant does, Kubernetes, ecosystem development, and support. They discussed the necessity of Kubernetes and whether it's needed at all. They also covered microservices, Amazon AWS, the 'I’ll get lucky' approach in DevOps, the future of Kubernetes itself, why, when, and how it will take over the world, the prospects of DevOps, and what engineers should prepare for in the bright […]
Introduction Recently, the popularity of Kubernetes has been rapidly growing — more and more projects are implementing it. I would like to touch upon an orchestrator like Nomad: it is well-suited for projects that already use other HashiCorp solutions, such as Vault and Consul, and where the projects are not complex in terms of infrastructure. In this material, we will […]
Zextras PowerStore is one of the most sought-after extensions for the Zimbra Collaboration Suite, part of the Zextras Suite. Utilizing this extension, which adds hierarchical media management capabilities to Zimbra and significantly reduces the disk space consumed by user mailboxes through compression and deduplication algorithms, ultimately leads to substantial savings in storage space.
A new feature has appeared on GitHub allowing users to fund open-source projects. If a user cannot participate in the development, they can financially support a project they like. A similar system operates on Patreon. The system allows for fixed monthly contributions to developers registered as participants. Sponsors are promised benefits like priority bug fixes. GitHub, however, will not […]
Yandex presented a range of new products and services during Yet Another Conference 2019, one of which was a 'smart' home with the voice assistant Alice. Yandex's smart home incorporates intelligent lighting, smart sockets, and other household devices. You can ask Alice to turn on the lights, lower the temperature on the air conditioner, or increase the music volume. To manage the smart home...
Happy Friday everyone! Friends, today we continue our series of publications dedicated to the 'DevOps Practices and Tools' course, as classes in the new group will start at the end of next week. So, let's get started! Monitoring is simple. This is a well-known fact. Raise Nagios, run NRPE on a remote system, configure Nagios to the NRPE TCP port 5666, and you have...