Category Archives: Technology

ZCash Mining With Nvidia Telsa

Posted on August 18, 2017 by phil

I have two Nvidia Telsa cards that I use for work, they are good for certain tasks around data mining and machine learning, and I have been interested in trying to use them for Zcash mining. I have a Antminer … Continue reading →

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Kubuntu 16.04 LTS

Posted on August 15, 2017 by phil

One of my Opensuse workstations fell over. Weird problem with the login, the sddm-greeter was crashing on start. I reinstalled a bunch of things but it would not come back to life. I decided that the system could do with … Continue reading →

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Syncthing

Posted on July 13, 2017 by phil

I seem to be constantly trying out different ways of syncing data. I have had no end of problems with unison. Apart from being slow getting build versions to match is a constant source of frustration. However,  I have found … Continue reading →

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OwnCloud – its awesome!

Posted on April 21, 2017 by phil

I gave up on SpiderOak in the end, it was too resource heavy for my laptops, their batteries were really struggling. The constant encrypting and decrypting was too much. Its a shame because as a backup system for large amounts … Continue reading →

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Let’s Encrypt!

Posted on April 21, 2017 by phil

I had to do it eventually. My security expert credentials (such as they are) were coming under question from my lack of https on my web server. This was partly due to that until recently it would have required additional expense, … Continue reading →

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Chromebook copy-paste from PDF file

Posted on March 30, 2017 by phil

This is the first time I have travelled for an extended period of time with only my Chromebook. I would normally take a laptop if I was going to be away for more than a couple of days. Not only … Continue reading →

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A Beast

Posted on February 16, 2017 by phil

I have been cleaning up and resurrecting a beast of a computer. Its a dual Xeon 3.16GHz, with 8GB of RAM. Its not that high spec compared with today’s hardware. Has a fairly average GPU and a RAID card with … Continue reading →

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Got Me a Server Rack

Posted on November 18, 2016 by phil

I have been going through a process of tidying up! So I have got a server rack and put a load (3) of my computers in it. I got it free, thanks York University, and all it needed was a new … Continue reading →

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SpiderOak and the Tail of the Dead Battery

Posted on September 21, 2016 by phil

I switched from Dropbox to SpiderOak a while ago. For a couple of reasons. One, I wanted to upload more things to the cloud for backup, video projects etc, and SpiderOak have a personal 5TB plan. I was also starting … Continue reading →

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DriverTuner and the generic solution that doesn’t work

Posted on September 19, 2016 by phil

I don’t spend much time with Windows, my desktops are largely Linux and my laptops Macs. I do have one rather ageing Windows machine, that recently got borked by an update. It was when I was reinstalling the drivers and … Continue reading →

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