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Apple investigates iPhone 6 explosion in California

Apple will investigate the circumstances surrounding the explosion of an iPhone 6 smartphone belonging to an 11-year-old girl from California. Kayla Ramos was reportedly watching a YouTube video in her sister's bedroom while holding an iPhone 6. “I was sitting there with the phone in my hand, and then I saw sparks flying everywhere and I just threw it at her.” blanket", […]

Just swipe a card: how the New York subway uses OS / 2

Vintage technology has been at work in New York subway structures for decades - and sometimes pops up in unexpected ways. OS/2 fan article A New Yorker and a tourist enter the 42nd Street subway station, also known as Times Square. Sounds like the start of a joke. Actually, no: one of them is glad that he got there; for others, this situation is terribly annoying. One knows how to get out […]

How we created the Dream Service Desk

Sometimes you can hear the phrase “the older the product, the more functional it is.” In the age of modern technology, the far-reaching web and the SaaS model, this statement almost does not work. The key to successful development is constant monitoring of the market, tracking customer requests and requirements, being ready to hear an important comment today, drag it into the backlog in the evening, and start developing it tomorrow. This is how we […]

How to ask questions correctly if you are a novice IT specialist

Hello! Over the last couple of years I have been working a lot with people who are just starting their careers in IT. Since the questions themselves and the way many people ask them are similar, I decided to collect my experience and recommendations in one place. A long time ago, I read an article from 2004 by Eric Raymond, and I have always followed it religiously in my career. She […]

Monitor Certificate Expiration in Windows on NetXMS

Recently, we faced the task of monitoring the validity of certificates on servers running Windows. Well, how I got up, after the certificates turned into a pumpkin several times, at the very time when the bearded colleague responsible for their renewal was on vacation. After that, we suspected something and decided to think about it. Since we don't […]

eBay scammers (story of one scam)

Disclaimer: the article is not entirely suitable for Habr and it is not entirely clear in which hub to post it, also the article is not a complaint, I think it will be useful for the community to know how you can lose money when selling computer hardware on eBay. A week ago, a friend of mine approached me asking for advice; he was selling his old […]

New build of Nemesida WAF Free for NGINX

Last year we released Nemesida WAF Free, a dynamic module for NGINX that blocks attacks on web applications. Unlike the commercial version, which is based on the work of machine learning, the free version analyzes requests only by the signature method. Nemesida WAF 4.0.129 Release Features Prior to the current release, the Nemesida WAF dynamic module only supported Nginx Stable 1.12, 1.14 and 1.16. IN […]

When reading can be touched: ONYX BOOX Monte Cristo 4 review

To learn does not mean to know; There are knowledgeable people and there are scientists - some are created by memory, others by philosophy. Alexandre Dumas, “The Count of Monte Cristo” Hello, Habr! When we talked about the new line of 6-inch book reader models from ONYX BOOX, we briefly mentioned another device - Monte Cristo 4. It deserves a separate review not only because it is a premium […]

Autoscaling and resource management in Kubernetes (overview and video report)

On April 27, at the Strike 2019 conference, as part of the “DevOps” section, a report “Autoscaling and resource management in Kubernetes” was given. It talks about how you can use K8s to ensure high availability of your applications and ensure peak performance. By tradition, we are pleased to present a video of the report (44 minutes, much more informative than the article) and the main summary in text form. Go! Let's look […]

VirtualBox 6.0.10 release

Oracle has published a corrective release of the virtualization system VirtualBox 6.0.10, which contains 20 fixes. Key changes in release 6.0.10: Linux host components for Ubuntu and Debian now support the use of digitally signed drivers to boot in UEFI Secure Boot mode. Fixed problems with building modules for different releases of the Linux kernel and […]

video2midi 0.3.9

An update has been released for video2midi, a utility designed to recreate a multi-channel midi file from videos that contain a virtual midi keyboard. Main changes since version 0.3.1: The graphical interface has been redesigned and optimized. Added support for Python 3.7, now you can run the script on Python 2.7 and Python 3.7. Added a slider for setting the minimum note duration Added a slider for setting the tempo of the output midi file […]

Around the world with an e-book: ONYX BOOX James Cook 2 review

“Do at least once what others say you can’t do. After that, you will never pay attention to their rules and restrictions.” James Cook, English naval sailor, cartographer and discoverer Everyone has their own approach to choosing an e-book. Some people think for a long time and read thematic forums, others are guided by the rule “if you don’t try, […]