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A firewall is an essential element of security for any system connected to the web. It is responsible for filtering the traffic, allowing the necessary traffic while blocking the unrelated and potentially harmful.
Last year, the frequency of Intel's desktop processor was 6.0 GHz. This year, these figures were significantly increased, and a new record was set. A new Core i9-14900KS processor with a frequency of 6.2 GHz was released, which means that at the moment it is the highest possible frequency for desktop PCs.
AMD announced a new release – a new Spartan UltraScale+ FGPA line, the successor of Spartan 6 and Spartan 7. The new Field Programmable Gate Arrays are distinguishable with high energy efficiency and affordable price, which is made possible due to the higher density provided by the 16-nanometer manufacturing process.
The transparency to the users of *nix command can be achieved with shell script wrappers. A wrapper is a shell function or shell script or an alias that contains a utility or system command.
On March 10, 2024, Linus Torvalds officially introduced Linux 6.8, which is a stable and updated version of the Linux kernel. The improvements affect the entire ecosystem and are important for users and developers in terms of performance, hardware support, and security.
The pydf (Python Disk File System) command is a command line tool for showing the amount of disk space used on a Linux-mounted filesystem. Pydf command is an alternative to “df” command: they perform the same function, but pydf shows the available disk space in different colors.
Prior to sharing some exact recommendations and steps according to utilizing NFS-shared HTML+PHP5 Files on the Apache server, let’s get a basic understanding of the Apache web server. For quite a long time Apache server was a top solution that existed online. This option was the only option for thousands if not millions of sites worldwide. It is most likely that most companies/organization has tried this solution.
On Tuesday, March 5, a new version of FreeBSD 13.3 was introduced, which will be the latest update for the stable 13th series of the BSD platform. FreeBSD 13.3 can be downloaded for all major architectures, from amd64 to riscv64, although the update is most relevant for users who have not yet upgraded to FreeBSD 14.
FreeBSD, OpenBSD, and NetBSD are operating systems that present an alternative to Linux in the paradigm of UNIX-like operating systems. They are too frequently used as server operating systems, having their advantages as well as specificities. Today we are particularly going to explore package administration within these three OS.
Lately, it became official, global internet cables that transmit data to the Middle East, Asia, and Africa have been cut. The connection between Europe, Africa, and Asia was damaged by approximately 25 %. It occurred in the part of the Red Sea that is under the jurisdiction of Yemen.