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Cockpit – simplifying typical administrative tasks in Linux OS through a convenient web interface

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In this article, I will discuss the capabilities of the Cockpit tool. Cockpit was created to simplify the administration of Linux operating systems. In short, it allows performing the most common Linux administrator tasks through a pleasant web interface. Cockpit features: installation and verification of system updates and enabling automatic updates (patching process), user management (creating, deleting, changing passwords, blocking, granting superuser rights), disk management (creating, editing LVM, […]

Knowledge management in international standards: ISO, PMI

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Hello everyone. It has been six months since KnowledgeConf 2019, during which I have had the opportunity to speak at two more conferences and conduct lectures on knowledge management at two large IT companies. Talking with colleagues, I realized that in IT it is still possible to speak about knowledge management at a 'beginner' level, or rather, just to acknowledge that knowledge management is necessary for everyone […]

Release of Display Server Mir 1.5

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Despite abandoning the Unity shell and switching to Gnome, Canonical continues to develop the Mir display server, with the release of version 1.5 occurring recently. Among the changes, the expansion of the MirAL (Mir Abstraction Layer), used to move away from direct interaction with the Mir server and abstracting access to the ABI through the libmiral library, can be noted. MirAL has added […]

Engineers tested the design of the largest arch bridge in the world, the Leonardo da Vinci model.

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In 1502, Sultan Bayezid II contemplated building a bridge across the Golden Horn to connect Istanbul and the neighboring city of Galata. Among the responses from leading engineers of that time, the project of the renowned Italian artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci stood out for its originality. The traditional bridges of that time had a distinctly curved arch with spans. For the bridge […]

Taming USB/IP

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There is often a need to connect a USB device to a remote PC over a local network. Below, I outline my search in this direction and the path to a ready solution based on the open-source project USB/IP, describing the various obstacles encountered along the way and how to circumvent them. Part one, historical. If the machine is virtual, this is not difficult. […]

Shared network usage of cryptographic tokens by users based on usbip

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Due to changes in legislation regarding trust services ("On Electronic Trust Services" Ukraine), there arose a need for several departments in the company to work with keys located on tokens (currently, the number of hardware keys is still under discussion). As a cost-effective tool (free of charge), the choice immediately fell on usbip. The server on Ubuntu 18.04 was launched thanks to the publication "Taming […]

Pamac 9.0 is a new branch of the package manager for Manjaro Linux.

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The Manjaro community has released a new major version of the Pamac package manager, specifically developed for this distribution. Pamac includes the libpamac library for working with main repositories, AUR, and local packages, console utilities with 'human syntax' like pamac install and pamac update, a main Gtk frontend, and an additional Qt frontend, which is not yet fully ported to the Pamac API […]

The Chief Financial Officer of Red Hat has been dismissed.

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Eric Shander has been dismissed from his position as Chief Financial Officer of Red Hat without the payment of a $4 million bonus set prior to IBM's acquisition of Red Hat. The decision was made by the Red Hat board of directors and approved by IBM. Alleged reasons for the dismissal without pay include violations of Red Hat's operational standards. More detailed information regarding the reasons for dismissal was provided by a spokesperson […]

A flaw in the Python script could have led to incorrect results in over 100 publications on chemistry.

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A graduate student at the University of Hawaii discovered an issue in a Python script used for calculating chemical shifts, which determine the chemical structure of the substance being studied during spectral analysis via nuclear magnetic resonance signals. During the verification of research results from one of his professors, the graduate student noticed that running the script on different operating systems with the same dataset produced different results […]

The Rspamd 2.0 spam filtering system is available

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The release of Rspamd 2.0, a spam filtering system, has been announced, providing tools for evaluating messages based on various criteria, including rules, statistical methods, and blacklists, from which the final weight of the message is derived for making a blocking decision. Rspamd supports almost all features implemented in SpamAssassin and has several unique aspects that enable it to filter emails on average 10 […]

How to Introduce Your Organization to OpenStack

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There is no perfect way to implement OpenStack in your company, but there are general principles that can guide you to a successful deployment. One of the advantages of open-source software like OpenStack is the ability to download it, try it out in practice, and gain hands-on experience without lengthy interactions with vendor companies or the need for long […]

How I couldn't turn on my MacBook due to the removal of TeamViewer

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Yesterday, I encountered a completely unexpected turn of events during yet another MacOS update. I generally really enjoy software updates; I always want to see the new features of various programs. When I saw this summer that I could download and install MacOS 10.15 Catalina Beta, I consciously decided against it, understanding that the beta could contain a significant amount […]

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