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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...