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Cryptocurrency

Fixing periodically occurring WiFi lags when running Claymore’s Ethereum miner

This is a blog post which literally drove me crazy for a week. After building our mining rig I experienced a bad WiFi connection with high pings, periodically occuring every 30 seconds. Just scroll down to see my – fairly Read more…

By Schakko, 9 years9 years ago
Amazon Web Services

Transferring DNS from Uberspace to AWS Route 53

Vacation time means administration time. I am one of these Uberspace customers whose domain has been registered and managed not by an external DNS registrar but by Uberspace (or Jonas Pasche) itself. Since a few years Uberspace has not been providing Read more…

By Schakko, 9 years8 years ago
Cryptocurrency

Running multiple Claymore miner instances with different wallets and GPUs

A few days ago I switched from ethminer to Claymore’s Dual Ethereum Miner because ethminer has problems running multiple instances with multiple GPUs. My blog post How to run same ethminer instance with multiple GPUs is still valid but ethminer Read more…

By Schakko, 9 years9 years ago
Cryptocurrency

How to pass multiple parameters to systemd’s ExecStart – Running same ethminer instance with multiple GPUs with systemd

For our Ethereum mining rig a coworker of mine wrote a systemd template unit so it is relatively easy to configure which graphic card in the rig is assigned to whom. For each of the GPU owners exist a custom Read more…

By Schakko, 9 years9 years ago
Windows

Attempting to perform the InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the ‘FileSystem’ provider failed.

Yesterday, one of our check_mk monitoring scripts based upon PowerShell failed, because the error Attempting to perform the InitializeDefaultDrives operation on the ‘FileSystem’ provider failed. showed up. The initial reason for this is unknown to me but it has to Read more…

By Schakko, 9 years6 years ago
Windows

Cross-domain migration from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2

In the first weeks of our company I made the mistake to set up the Active Directory domain with a .local suffix which caused a lot of problems with Windows and Linux-based clients in the longer run. Besides that after I have Read more…

By Schakko, 9 years8 years ago
Networking

w32tm: “No valid response has been received from manually configured peer”

This was one of those network bugs which took some time to fix. To give you a short background: In the last weeks we had random time NTP drifts in our Linux infrastructure, nothing serious but it was odd as Read more…

By Schakko, 9 years6 years ago
Project Ideas

Side project: A tool for preparing and calculating quotes with Neo4j

One part of my work is to inspect request for quotes (RfQs), gather customer requirements, estimate the effort and prepare a written offer. Most of our customers do not want to pay a separate bill for every sprint or user Read more…

By Schakko, 10 years10 years ago
Java

Executing a CQL wildcard search in CMDBuild’s REST API

For our internal search engine I am currently developing a simple microservice to make our CMDBuild instance searchable. The microservice provides a fairly simple JSON API which itself queries the REST API of CMDBuild. Because of the insufficient documentation of Read more…

By Schakko, 10 years10 years ago
Databases

Fixing “Unable to obtain lock on store lock file” when using the embedded database of Neo4j

After some years without using Neo4j I had the chance to use the graph database in my current project. Neo4j was a good fit because it makes it really easy to prototype an idea and the project itself relies heavily Read more…

By Schakko, 10 years10 years ago

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