Month: January 2018

How to access personal computer or network without port forwarding

It’s not always easy or possible to setup port forwarding so you can access your home PC or any other device through public IP your internet service assigns you. Problem is also if your ISP rotate IPs so you always need to keep track of it. One option is to try to convince ISP to give you static IP but traffic routing on ISP side can be also behind NAT, which might be complicated to configure and guys from ISP tend to tell you forwarding is not possible.

So what can you do about that? Sometimes nothing. 🙂

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Monero (XMR) rig monitoring and auto-restart with Arduino – tutorial

Those who are running crypto currencies mining operation know about importance of good automation. There are plenty of software around that can help you achieve as much automation as possible for different crypto currencies. But sometimes soft reboot of mining software is not an option. Especially in highly beta ecosystem such as AMD RX Vega rigs with blockchain driver and Windows 10. Even after tweaking voltage and frequency for graphic cards, blockchain driver is unstable and many times leads to Windows bluescreen or freeze that requires manual restart of the rig.

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How to install Hitch and Letsencrypt on Ubuntu server 16.04

So you’re trying to install Hitch for SSL termination on your Ubuntu 16.04 server? Or you might think it’s good idea because you have it working on some other Linux distribution like CentOS?

Think again. After 3-4 spent hours I found solution, installed some other SSL terminator. 😉 (Haproxy). This is where you can return to Google to look for other site if you’are looking for how to tutorial on Hitch with Ubuntu. However you might continue reading to see what kind of mess you might encounter.

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