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The speed of internet access around the globe can differ by hundreds of times. We discuss projects aimed at delivering high-speed internet to remote areas. We will also talk about how access to the internet is regulated in Asia and the Middle East. / Unsplash / Johan Desaeyere There are still places with slow internet. There are points […]
Preface It's been 2 days since the new version of the operating system CentOS was released, specifically CentOS 8. So far, there are quite few articles on the internet about how to do things in it, so I decided to fill this gap. I will explain not only how to install this couple of programs but also […]
Well, not exactly. This was a little dirty clickbait. However, at the RIPE NCC Days conference held on September 24-25 in Kyiv, the imminent end of /22 subnet allocations to new LIRs was announced. The exhaustion of the IPv4 address space has been discussed for a long time. It has been about 7 years since the last /8 blocks were allocated to regional registries. Despite […]
The nginx version 1.17.4 has been released in the mainline branch. Changes have primarily been made to the implementation of the HTTP/2 protocol. Update: Improved detection of improper client behavior in HTTP/2. Update: Changes in handling unread request bodies when returning errors in HTTP/2. Fix: The worker_shutdown_timeout directive might not work when using HTTP/2. Fix: When using HTTP/2 and the proxy_request_buffering directive, there could be a segmentation fault in the worker process […]
GitHub has introduced the CodeSearchNet project, which has prepared machine learning models and datasets necessary for parsing, classifying, and analyzing code in various programming languages. Similar to ImageNet, CodeSearchNet includes a large collection of code snippets, annotated to formalize the actions performed by the code. The components for training the models and examples of using CodeSearchNet are written in Python using […]
The release of KnotDNS 2.8.3 has been announced, a high-performance authoritative DNS server (the resolver is implemented as a separate application) that supports all modern DNS features. The project is developed by the Czech domain registry CZ.NIC, written in C, and distributed under the GPLv3 license. The server is characterized by a focus on high performance in handling queries, utilizing a multithreaded and largely non-blocking implementation, and is well-scalable to […]
Today marks a significant day for the CentOS project. First, as promised, CentOS Linux 8 has been released, build 8.0.1905. Release Notes: https://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS8.1905 Download link: https://mirror.yandex.ru/centos/8/ This release is a rebuild of the RHEL 8.0 release that came out in May this year. Noteworthy changes include AppStreams — an enterprise version of the Fedora Modularity concept. The essence of the approach is to ensure the simultaneous availability of different versions of the same […]
According to information shared with the world by Intel's Senior Vice President of Technology and System Architecture Jim Keller, his company is currently working on a fundamentally new microarchitecture that is expected to be "significantly larger and closer to a linear performance dependency on the number of transistors" than the current Sunny Cove design. This should likely be interpreted in such a way […]
Hello! This article will describe the implementation of PowerShell interaction with the Google API for managing G Suite users. In our organization, we use several internal and cloud services. Most of the time, authentication in them boils down to Google or Active Directory, between which we cannot maintain a replica, so when a new employee joins, we need to create/enable an account […]
An SLA, or 'service-level agreement', is a guarantee agreement between the client and the service provider regarding what the client will receive in terms of service. It also specifies compensations in case of downtime caused by the provider, and so on. Essentially, an SLA is a letter of guarantee that assures potential clients that the data center or hosting provider will make every effort […]
Nim is a statically typed language focused on efficiency, readability, and flexibility. Version 1.0 marks a stable base that can be confidently used in the coming years. Starting with this release, any code written in Nim will not break. This release includes numerous changes, including bug fixes and some language enhancements. It also comes with […]
The Document Foundation has announced the release of LibreOffice 6.3.2, the second maintenance release of the LibreOffice 6.3 ‘fresh’ family. Version 6.3.2 is aimed at enthusiasts, power users, and those who prefer the latest software versions. For conservative users and enterprises, it is still recommended to use the LibreOffice 6.2.7 ‘still’ release. Ready-to-install packages are available for Linux, macOS, and Windows. […]