When I write for this site I like it to be a reflection of my current interests and right now, that is crypto mining. I'll share some of the tips and tricks I've learned over the last month or so building a 6 (soon to be 8) GPU mining rig.
Yes.
The basic calculations ar...
Following a very recent announcement by the Let's Encrypt team regarding a vulnerability that has surfaced relating to the use of the TLS-SNI-01 challenge when validating certificates, we have had to make an emergency change to our image. In short, they have disabled that method of verification un...
Recently we have had a fair number of people asking about running Organizr through our Let's Encrypt Docker container, with people stumbling around getting their tabs to display correctly. The most common query surrounds the confusion between accessing Organizr locally versus accessing it via a...
Getting a GPU passed through these days is almost trivially easy and thanks to the Arch Wiki is even easier.
In this post I'm going to cover the solution proposed by u/spheenik at r/vfio on reddit to resolve audio crackling which has plagued my experiences with VFIO for literally years......
I'm really excited about the current influx of new people to building computers for the first time to mine cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and more. Spending time browsing Reddit I get the impression some are completely new to building PCs and even newer to Linux. This guide is (hopefully...
We are currently in the process of upgrading our Alpine baseimages to version 3.7 to make sure we continue to keep up-to-date with the latest security features and fixes.
Look out for these updates and please update your containers with your preferred method!
You should pull the latest version o...
In the world of PCI passthrough few things have excited me more than the release of the new Looking Glass project from gnif over on the Level1tech forums.
https://github.com/gnif/LookingGlass
This project will allow you to capture the rendered frame output from your GPU in a Windows guest to a...
Time is money in crypto mining. So how do you make sure that your card is always mining? What if whilst you're sleeping or not paying attention when your mining software crashes? This happened to me today and I lost about 8 hours.
I'll show you how we can use systemd to fix this by automatically r...
The reverse proxy. One of those projects you put off for years but when you finally get to it you find that it was relatively simple all along. We can't hope to cover everything relating to such a broad topic in one article but we'll use an nginx based reverse proxy to get you started. Below, we det...