Mapped Drive Session Drop Under Heavy I/O — and the Heartbeat Fix In VirtualBox environments hosting legacy XP guests, a persistent glitch occurs during large file transfers to other guests running later versions of Windows. XP reports a lost connection, even though the mapped drive remains technically intact. This isn’t […]
Monthly Archives: October 2025
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I have a Windows 10 machine. I’ve manually configured it to use my MikroTik router which is set up as an NTP server (tested with another, local, Arch machine and it works fine). It used to work fine but now it can’t sync time. Short version: Win10 machine sends and […]
It’s not about getting ram filled and slowing down, for a few seconds, while it’s writing to page file. My very old pc does that without any problems. Actually ram usage doesn’t even have to be that high. But it happens faster if more tabs are open. After opening many […]
I’m learning Fortigate, using the free licence, which is limited, I guess. I want to configure DDNS, but I can’t find it; usually, it should be on the DNS or in the WAN interface configuration page. But I can’t find it. Was it moved somewhere else, or does my licence […]
Inspecting the fail2ban log on a host I tried to get the domain-names for banned IPs. Of course some could not be resolved and a lot resolved to dynamic addresses or just AWS. Puzzlingly some of them (as the one in the title) come back with a pointer to localhost. […]