nicehash.com testing

It turned out that an acquaintance boasted that his premises were being heated by 'mining' cryptocurrency and receiving BTC in exchange. He mentioned that he is using nicehash.com, I thought I'd see what's it all about. My impression is good, nothing to think about, you can use Windows OS, just dow...

16KP 50/1.2 lens

I did not abstain and ordered the lens 16KP 50 / 1.2 also known as 16KP RO 109 from e-bay from Ukraine. It seemed in the ad that everything should work with my current M42 -> Nex adapter. However, when the lens came, I realized that with a large adapter, I wouldn’t have the ability to focus to infin...

Macbook battery

One day I placed my Macbook (Macbook Pro Late 2013) on a desk and noticed that it doesn't sit right. The front feet were in the air. The swollen battery deformed the bottom of the laptop. Ok so I ordered a replacement from ifixit.com. Also bought a kit for the repairs. The battery arrives prett...

Raspberry Pi2 ir Archlinux

Taigi nusipirkau Raspberry Pi 2 Model B. Oficialiai rekomenduojama operacinė sistema šiam kompiuteriui yra Raspbian. Įsidiegiau, pasileidau ir jaučiu, kad jis vangiai veikia, net SSH atsakymai lyg vėluoja atrodo. Šiek tiek pasigooglinu ir randu, kad yra Archlinux alternatyva arm procesoriams, ku...

Socat and port forwarding

2019-03-25
I have found a way to forward requests from one machine's specific port to another machine's specific port. There is a package called socat for this. A short example: socat -v tcp4-listen:port1,reuseaddr,fork tcp4:address:port2 In this case: port1 - the port the local machine is listeni...

Metro Exodus impressions

2019-03-03
Last night I finished playing Metro Exodus. To be honest I expected the ending to be different. But after some reading on the interned I realized what might have caused it. I have killed a person by accident who was surrendering. I think that I have also accidentally shot a slave, who was simply ca...

Romainiai Fort

From time to time I take part in foto sessions with Kaunas City Foto Group. This time the idea was to take photos in Romainiai Fort. A day before I went to check out the place. Some ideas about a video came to mind. So I did the first part and waited for tomorrow to film the model too.

Docker logs

2018-12-04
One day I noticed that server disk space is running low, the culprit was docker. As I later found out, docker does not limit the maximum filesize of the log files. In order to limit the file size you need to pass some parameters when running containers, you can also make a global config file. Step...

Quake Champions impressions

2018-09-26
There was a good deal on Steam, Quake Champions was free if you install and run it at least one time. Being a Quake III Arena fan myself I decided to give this new version of Quake a try. Game selection mode screen. So what are my first impressions? They are as follows: There is no possibil...

A hike near Kauno marios

A friend offered to take part in a hike near Kauno marios. The distance was 13 kilometers. I thought that it will be fun so I accepted the offer. Though the weather forecast made me worry a little about the chance of rain. We got some medium rain before the hike started. Some peope found places to h...