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Proxmox VM’s have slow response times and timeouts

gergo314 — Wed, 17 Jun 2020 15:57:11 +0000

We started to use the built-in firewall function in our Proxmox cluster, and sometimes VM-s started to timeout for time to time, but we found no problem then. It happened again, and finally found the root of our problem. The following line started to appear in the syslog (both VM, and core machine): nf_conntrack: table …

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Proxmox VE 4.x 5.x – SSL Issue

gergo314 — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:51:26 +0000

We started to use VMs instead of containers a few months ago on our Proxmox cluster. We had some issues in the beginning but now it works well. The problem: Today I came across a very irritating problem as I was updating our certificates. After the update I couldn’t restart the working VMs and got …

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Litecoin founder Charlie Lee has sold all of his LTC

gergo314 — Wed, 20 Dec 2017 13:24:45 +0000

Charlie Lee, the former director of engineering at Coinbase, is selling almost all of his holdings in Litecoin (LTC), the cryptocurrency that he founded in 2011. Lee explained in a post on Reddit that he is selling all of his LTC coins — bar a number of physical coins he keeps as collectibles — to avoid …

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Mozilla seeks return to glory with release of Firefox Quantum

gergo314 — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 12:53:41 +0000

Mozilla just delivered a re-engineered Firefox, branded “Quantum,” that it claims is twice as fast as just a few months earlier, and unveiled a re-drawn UI (user interface) with minimalist leanings. The browser maker also dumped Yahoo as Firefox’s default search engine in the U.S., Canada and elsewhere, to return to Google, its partner – …

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Browser alternatives to Chrome for Android

gergo314 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 15:00:21 +0000

Just because almost everyone else uses Google’s Chrome browser on their Android smartphone, doesn’t mean you have to. There plenty of alternatives in the Play Store, some of them tailored for specific tasks. Ghostery started life as a privacy-protecting extension for desktop browsers. On Android, its developers decided to present it as a browser. At …

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OneWeb is a step closer to bringing its global, satellite-based internet services to Earth

gergo314 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:41:30 +0000

OneWeb, the company aiming to bring the internet to the 31% of the world’s population who don’t have access to 3G connectivity, is moving one step closer to bringing its satellite services back to Earth. The billionaire-backed corporation, which has raised over $1.7 billion from Virgin Group, SoftBank, Coca Cola, Bharti Group, Qualcomm and Airbus; …

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Microsoft expands HoloLens headsets to new markets

gergo314 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 13:36:48 +0000

Nearly three years on from Microsoft unveiling its HoloLens augmented reality headsets, the company today announced a major expansion of its availability: 29 more markets in Europe, nearly tripling the total number of countries where you can buy the device up to 39. The news shows that while we don’t have a firm number of how many …

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Google says these tiny gadgets can protect you from hackers

gergo314 — Tue, 07 Nov 2017 12:37:16 +0000

Passwords aren’t perfect — anyone who’s had to reset one after a data breach can tell you that. But neither are biometrics, and every other “password killer” has largely fallen flat. Ask around, and security experts will tell you that passwords aren’t going anywhere any time soon. Google knows this, too. With constant threats from hackers and …

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The best PC hardware you can buy today

gergo314 — Sun, 15 Oct 2017 17:44:33 +0000

Looking to build the ultimate PC? If the price is no object, this is the hardware you want, from Intel’s Core i9 chips to Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 Ti. Processor The heart of a PC is its processor. The ultimate choice is Intel’s 18-core Core i9-7980XE, and that should be an open ticket to be a …

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Mozilla is about to stop all support for Firefox on Windows XP and Vista

gergo314 — Thu, 12 Oct 2017 20:30:59 +0000

Mozilla plans to halt all Firefox security updates next year to personal computers powered by either Windows XP or Windows Vista, closing that chapter of its browser’s history. Windows XP and Vista have both been retired by Microsoft, XP in April 2014 and Vista in April 2017. Once dropped from support, an operating system stops …

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