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Rook or not Rook, that is the question

Earlier this month, on May 3, a major release of the "control system for distributed data storage in Kubernetes" - Rook 1.0.0 was announced. Over a year ago, we already published a general review of Rook. At the same time, we were asked to talk about the experience of using it in practice - and now, just in time for such a significant milestone in the history of the project, we […]

Reverse zone delegation of a subnet less than /24 in BIND. How it works

Once I faced the task of giving one of the clients the right to edit the PTR records of the /28 subnet given to him. I don't have automation for editing BIND settings from the outside. Therefore, I decided to go the other way - to delegate to the client a piece of the /24 subnet PTR zone. It would seem - what could be easier? We just write the subnet in the right way and direct it to the […]

Dissatisfied fans brought to the top photo of the scriptwriters of "Game of Thrones" for the search "bad writers" in Google

Disappointed by the final season, Game of Thrones fans could not forgive the writers for their shattered expectations. They decided to explicitly communicate their opinion to the creators of the series using Google. Using a fairly popular technique called “Google bombing,” also known as “search bombing,” Reddit members from the /r/Freefolk community decided to associate the query “bad writers” with a photo of the show’s writers. IN […]

Rostelecom has decided on suppliers of 100 thousand smartphones on the Russian OS

The Rostelecom company, according to the network publication RIA Novosti, has selected three suppliers of cellular devices running the Sailfish Mobile OS RUS operating system. Let us recall that in the first quarter of last year, Rostelecom announced a deal to purchase the Sailfish OS mobile platform, which can be used on smartphones and tablet computers. It is assumed that mobile devices based on Sailfish Mobile […]

DJI Osmo Action sports camera images and specifications ahead of launch

DJI is believed to be unveiling its first sports camera, the DJI Osmo Action, at a special event on Wednesday. This product was first rumored in early May, when it was speculated that the camera would be a special version of the DJI Osmo Pocket - which is now clear that this is not the case. On the eve of the event, photographs, technical specifications and other details about the device have already […]

New vulnerability affects virtually every Intel chip manufactured since 2011

Information security experts have discovered a new vulnerability in Intel chips that can be used to steal sensitive information directly from the processor. The researchers called it "ZombieLoad". ZombieLoad is a side-by-side attack targeting Intel chips that allows hackers to effectively exploit a flaw in their architecture to obtain arbitrary data, but does not allow […]

SSD Health Monitoring in Qsan Arrays

The use of solid-state drives in the field of data storage is no surprise. SSDs have firmly entered the everyday life of IT equipment from personal computers and laptops to servers and data storage systems. During this time, several generations of SSDs have changed, each of which has improved characteristics in terms of performance, reliability and maximum capacity. But the issue of monitoring the recording resource […]

Optimization of work of mail storages in Zimbra Collaboration Suite

In one of our previous articles devoted to infrastructure planning when implementing Zimbra Collabortion Suite in an enterprise, it was said that the main limitation in the operation of this solution is the I/O speed of disk devices in mail storages. Indeed, at a time when several hundred employees of an enterprise simultaneously access the same mail storage, the bandwidth for […]

The Council developers create an RPG in the Vampire universe: The Masquerade

Publisher Bigben Interactive has announced that Big Bad Wolf is working on a new role-playing game in the Vampire: The Masquerade universe. Now production is at an early stage, the authors took on the project only three months ago. You shouldn't expect a release within the next two years. So far, Bigben Interactive has not provided any details, only vaguely hinted at the concept - the authors […]

Nokia smartphones with 5G support will appear in 2020

HMD Global, which produces smartphones under the Nokia brand, has entered into a licensing agreement with Qualcomm, one of the world's largest suppliers of chips for mobile devices. Under the terms of the agreement, HMD Global will be able to use Qualcomm's patented technologies in its devices supporting third (3G), fourth (4G) and fifth (5G) generations of mobile communications. Network sources note that development is already […]

Tesla autopilot starred in porn: there were no casualties

It was only a matter of time before someone had sex in a self-driving car for the first time. Last week, Taylor Jackson, a porn actress from Los Angeles, and her boyfriend may have become the first to implement this idea. They uploaded their video to Pornhub, where everyone could watch the couple perform various sexual acts in a moving […]

Mail on "raspberry"

Designing Mail, mail ... "Currently, any novice user can get his own free e-mail box, just register on one of the Internet portals," says Wikipedia. So launching your own mail server for this is a bit strange. However, I do not regret the month spent on this, counting from the day the OS was installed to the day […]