I’ve always wondered how much energy my solar panels are producing at any given time. Occasionally, I’ll look at the tiny LCD read-out on my SMA Sunny Boy SM1700 solar inverter, and wait for the PAC (power actual in watts) and daily outputs to show on the scrolling menu. Same applies to reading my current
Recently I wrote about mining and compared the hashrate of all my computers/servers at home (CPU and GPUs). My current goal is to mine 1 whole monero coin, and two weeks into the project, I’ve mined 0.134 of a coin. Yesterday I noticed a discrepancy between two very similarly equipped mining computers. One of the hash
I’m a relative late-comer to cryptocurrency investing. Although I have been aware of BitCoin since around 2010, I didn’t put any “skin in the game”. I also didn’t bother mining any coins when the hashing difficulties were easy compared to modern standards. I wasn’t interested. In hindsight, it was a big mistake. However, something changed
Windows Defender doesn’t seem to like crypto mining software very much! If you are finding that your xmr-stak.exe executable file keeps disappearing, or gets deleted, you should add an exclusion within Windows Defender, to stop it from being scrutinised, scanned, blocked, quarantined and deleted. Open Windows Defender from your taskbar. Navigate to the ‘Virus &
One of the most common errors that occurs when running XMR-Stak for the very first time pertains to a missing vcredist140.dll In full the error appears as: xmr-stak.exe – System Error The code execution cannot proceed because VCRUNTIME140.dll was not found. Reinstalling the program may fix this problem. OK. Alternatively, the error may appear as:
So, you’re thinking about mining the cryptocurrency Monero (XMR) using Windows based mining software like XMR-Stak? Wondering what sort of hashrate your hardware may obtain? In this post I compare the mining performance of every single laptop/PC/server in my household, using both CPU and GPU mining options (where installed). For this comparison, I am using
When I first built my house, I thought that an epoxy-sealed garage floor would be ideal. I had lived in a previous house with a bare concrete/cement garage floor, and it was always dusty, and stained very easily with oil/chemical drips. Houses in Australia are almost always handed to new owners with a bare concrete/cement
Repurposing a Google GSA (Google Search Appliance) – A step-by-step how to guide So, you have a GSA (Google Search Appliance) which has run out of license, and you are wondering if it is possible to re-purpose/re-use/crack the very well specified hardware? Yes, it absolutely is! By default, the GSA runs a custom BIOS on
Withings (now owned by, and re-branded as, Nokia) Body Cardio smart scales – A comprehensive owner/user review UPDATED 23rd Jan 2018: Nokia will remove the Pulse Wave Velocity reading effective immediately. Any reference to the Pulse Wave Velocity capability in this review is now invalid. Here is the blurb from Nokia: We brought the Pulse