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At the beginning of this month, on May 3rd, a significant release of the 'management system for distributed data storage in Kubernetes' was announced — Rook 1.0.0. Over a year ago, we published a general overview of Rook. At that time, we were asked to share our practical experience with it — and now, just at this important milestone in the project's history, we are pleased to […]
The use of solid-state drives in the field of data storage is no longer surprising. SSDs have firmly entered the IT equipment landscape ranging from personal computers and laptops to servers and storage systems. Over time, several generations of SSDs have emerged, each offering improved performance, reliability, and maximum capacity. But the question of monitoring write resources […]
The future 'father' of Soviet cosmonautics, Sergey Korolev — in the center. His passion for aviation began in his youth when he joined a glider club. He will face many challenges ahead, but his youthful enthusiasm will stay with him for life. Note: the photograph has been colorized using a service from Mail.ru. Their neural network performed much better than, for example, […]
In 2017, more than a hundred countries became targets of the WannaCry virus. It hit Russia and Ukraine the hardest. At that time, computers running OS Windows 7 and server versions were affected. On Windows 8, 8.1, and 10, the built-in antivirus managed to neutralize WannaCry. The malware was a ransomware that demanded a ransom for access to data. By the way, […]
Oracle has released a corrective update for the VirtualBox virtualization system version 6.0.8, which includes 11 fixes. The addition of protection against attacks using the vulnerabilities from the MDS (Microarchitectural Data Sampling) class, disclosed yesterday, is not mentioned in the change log, despite VirtualBox being listed among the hypervisors susceptible to the attack. The fixes are likely included but, as before, are not reflected in the […]
Valve has released a build of the Proton 4.2-4 project, which is based on the work of the Wine project and aims to enable the running of gaming applications created for Windows on Linux, available in the Steam catalog. The project developments are distributed under the BSD license. As original Wine and related projects, such as DXVK and vkd3d, become ready, the changes developed in Proton are transferred. […]
Hans de Goede, a Fedora Linux developer working at Red Hat, has introduced the project 'Wayland Itches', aimed at fixing bugs and addressing issues that arise during everyday use of the GNOME desktop running on Wayland. Despite having had a GNOME session based on Wayland offered by default in Fedora for quite some time, the […]
Cybersecurity experts have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel chips that can be exploited to steal confidential information directly from the processor. Researchers have named it 'ZombieLoad'. ZombieLoad is a side-channel attack targeting Intel chips, allowing hackers to effectively exploit a flaw in their architecture to gain arbitrary data, but it does not allow for injection and […]
I want to discuss how to securely store SSH keys on your local machine without fearing that some application might steal or decrypt them. This article will be helpful for those who haven't found an elegant solution since the paranoia of 2018 and continue to store keys in $HOME/.ssh. To address this issue, I propose using KeePassXC, which is one of the best managers […]
On January 29, the technical committee of the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), which is behind Kubernetes, Prometheus, and other Open Source products from the container and cloud native realm, announced the acceptance of the Rook project into its ranks. This is a great opportunity to get to know this 'orchestrator of distributed data storage systems in Kubernetes' better. What is Rook? Rook is written in Go and […]
Another six months have passed, and the Repology project, which regularly collects and compares information about package versions across numerous repositories, has published its latest report. The number of supported repositories has surpassed 230. Support has been added for BunsenLabs, Pisi, Salix, Solus, T2 SDE, Void Linux, ELRepo, Mer Project, GNU Elpa, and MELPA package repositories, MSYS2 (msys2, mingw), and a set of extended OpenSUSE repositories. […]
Good day, esteemed Habr users and portal guests! Recently, I had the need to set up a small server for video conferencing. There weren't many options considered — BBB and Openmeetings, as only they met the functional requirements: Free desktop and document sharing, etc. Interactive work with users (shared whiteboard, chat, etc.) No additional software installation required […]