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Blog Archive: December 2017

Crypto mining

Simple GPU Overclocking Boosts Ethereum Mining Profitability by 20.65% - Now Making $2.66 Daily

Welcome to the last post of 2017, and no surprise but today I will speak about increased Ethereum (and Siacoin) mining profitability by overclocking GPU cards.Those of you following my blog lately already know - in December I decided to build 12 GPU mining rig and ordered goodies from Amazon. In total spending about $1,147.  The total investment right now covers just the core minimum - motherboard, power supply, PCI risers, RAM,…

Georgia

Taverna Plateia in Mirthios, Crete

Ok, this is just another roadside cafeteria, discovered by accident - meet Taverna Plateia in the village of Mirthios, on the island of Crete.At least I believe it is located in Mirthios village, as we did our trip to Crete back in June 2017, now browsing through the huge photo archive at Adobe Lightroom, I might be wrong. Though it's worth to mention this place as we had a nice dinner here.Taverna Plateia in CreteMy one and only…

Greece

Lake Kournas in Crete

Lake Kournas is a lake on the island of Crete, Greece, near the village of Kournas. It is in the Apokoronas municipality of Chania regional unit close to the border with Rethymno regional unit, 47 km from the town of Chania. Kournas is a fairly large village perched on a hill overlooking the lake.We headed to the Lake Kournas in June 2017, just to spend a nice afternoon here and enjoy a mild swim…

Crypto mining

Learning Crypto Currency Mining The Hard Way

It has been a couple of days since my first GPU mining rig is set up and running, making me a couple of extra dollars every day. In these past couple of days, I have learned a lot, mostly tech stuff how to install different components on a motherboard and to connect to the mining pool.In today's article, I will share a few photos and notes what helped to get me here.It all started with ordering details for 12 GPU mining rig from Amazon. It…

Crypto mining

I'm Making $2.44 Per Day By Dual Mining Ethereum and Siacoin, and I'm NOT HAPPY YET!

This is a quick follow up post after previous and initial I'm Making $0.98 Per Day By Mining Ethereum and Siacoin, and I want MORE!. It has been first 24 hours since my core mining rig have been set up and running.

Well, more precisely, yesterday I finally received details ordered from Amazon at the start of December - motherboard, processor, power block, graphics card and other, see: Building a 12 GPU Ethereum Mining Rig…

Greece

Thanasis - Cretan Taverna in Stavros

Thanasis is a typical Cretan taverna located in the town of Stavros. We visited this place during our stay at Kavos beach apartment in June 2017.Friendly staff, amazing food, affordable prices and amazing sunset views.Outdoor deck at Thanasis tavernaWhile waiting for our Cretan cuisine to be served made some HDR sunset photography here:Sunset photographyOne of the rare handheld HDR'sOctopusDolmaContact info Taverna Thanasis Cafe bar in Stavros,…

Living in Georgia

Works of Georgian Painter Nino Jikia

Nino is a friend, we have been in friends with Nino for about a year. We actually met her as a cat sitter during our 10 days trip to New York City at the end of 2016

She has cat- sitted several more times since then. In case you are looking for cat minder here in Tbilisi - without hesitation - Nino is one of the best - our boys just adore her. I know that Nino is busy with a cat sitting for many other expats in Tbilisi, and…

Greece

Kavos Beach Apartments & Studios Review in Stavros, Crete

Kavos beach apartments are among one of my favorite hotels discovered in Crete. We stayed here for a couple of nights in June 2017, during about a month long trip to Crete.Stavros is a village and a popular beach destination located close to the Chania town in Crete, Greece. The beach and surroundings were the place where in 1964 Michael Cacoyannis partly made the popular Greek movie "Zorba the Greek" starring…

Greece

Fresh Portakalada and Donner somewhere near Kandanos in Crete

There are times Google Maps doesn't help (in fact there are dozen of such times) - this time Google Maps street view didn't help either - after about 6 months since we returned from Crete, I'm still postprocessing a lot of photos, reviewing places (tourist attractions, hotels, and restaurants).It was in the morning, we left Palaiochóra and headed towards Heraklion in our rental car. Somewhere near Kandanos we found this…

Crypto mining

Mining with SAPPHIRE PULSE Radeon™ RX 560 4GD5 Review

This Sapphire Pulse Radeon RX 560 4GB graphics card is the first I've put on test for mining ethereum.Bought it at about $190 at local Tbilisi electronics shop, but you could get this card from Amazon for about $130.Out of the box, I was able to get 10.72MH/s for Ether and 85.74 MH/s for dual mining Siacoin, on average by mining with this card only I'm able to make about $0.98 daily, which gives about 190 days for ROI. See: I'm…

Baltic stocks

I'm Making $0.98 Per Day By Mining Ethereum and Siacoin, and I want MORE!

The fans are spinning and graphics cards are heating, it has been 24 hours since I started mining Ethereum and Siacoin. And in these 24 hours, I've made $0.96.

Ok, in fact, there is just one fan spinning and just one RadeonRX 560 card, which I bought a couple of days ago in Tbilisi, and decided to test the mining process at one of our spare office computers, before details for my 12 GPU mining rig arrives.

I feel glad I was so…

Drupal & Servers

How to Install Drupal 8 with Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 16.04 - Linode Guide

In this article, you will learn how to set up a Drupal 8 with Nginx, PHP-FPM, MySQL and phpMyAdmin.

This article might not be complete, but you will find a lot of useful information

Update: How to Install Drupal 8 with Nginx, PHP-FPM 7.2, MySQL, phpMyAdmin on Ubuntu 18.04 - Linode Guide

Prerequisites


Ubuntu 16.04 - 64bit version.
Root privileges.


You can get a cheap VPS for $10/mo from Linode. As I've few test Linodes already…

Living in Georgia

Buying Graphic Cards (GPU) and Computer Parts in Tbilisi, Georgia

It should be noted that buying GPU's in Tbilisi is not a very cost-effective option, better use Amazon.com and service like usa2georgia.com to deliver your goodies to Georgia.But if you are in rush, as I was today, and you are desperate to have a GPU right now, while in Tbilisi - there are several electronic stores I could recommend.While I was still waiting for goodies from the US to be shipped to Georgia, I decided to buy an additional cheap…

Crypto mining

Building a 12 GPU Ethereum Mining Rig From Scratch - Part 1: Ordering Details

I love testing ideas and even more than just testing new ideas I love testing them using Minimum viable product approach.  

I've been in a crypto craze for a while already - started with buy and hold, added little speculative trades, tried an ICO and now even considering to start mining. Totally insane? Well, I can only agree!

In fact, that doesn't even sound like me - you see, I like buying and holding, I even enjoy…

Laptop & Gadget Reviews

Lenovo Ideapad 320-15ISK (Intel Core i3) Laptop Review

Bought this Lenovo Idepad laptop for the use at our Tbilisi office.As recently we bought a few Desktop PC's with Intel Core i3 processors for transcription projects, for me it was important to have an office laptop with the same or similar parameters.Ideapad 320 series comes with up to top-of-the-line 7th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 processing, plus up to 16 GB DDR4 (for this model Intel Core i3 and 4 GB DDR) memory, guarantee lightning-…

Dividend Income

November 2017 Dividend Income Report - $50.75

Welcome to the seventh (#7) dividend income report, covering earnings I've made from dividend-paying stocks, peer to peer lending (both fiat and cryptocurrencies) in November 2017. Surprisingly, but November, in terms of a passive income, turned out better, as I thought before, and generated me a dividend income of total $50.75. I didn't plan to make more than $40 this month, but increased…

Living in Georgia

Christmas Charity Fair Tbilisi 2017

Annual Winter Fair (Christmas charity fair) was held in Tbilisi's Radisson Blue Hotel on December 2, 2017

It has been a tradition for us while living in Georgia to visit this fair, already since 2011. Here are a few articles from the past: Christmas Charity Winter Fair in Tbilisi 2015, Christmas Charity Winter Fair in Tbilisi Sheraton Hotel, Christmas charity fair in Tbilisi

As usual, we took a camera, backpack and went…

Servers & Config

How to Send RSS Web Push Notifications to Segments in OneSignal

It has been already more than one year since I've enabled OneSignal Web Push notifications for this blog. Over the past year, the blog has acquired more than 25,000 web push subscribers. Frankly speaking - sure web push notifications are great if used the right way, speaking of me - unfortunately, or for good, as I keep writing on many topics, I still haven't found the most optimal use for web push notifications, as readers of this…

Drupal & Servers

How to Prepare for Drupal 7 to 8 Upgrade - Planning

It has been more than 4 years since I started this blog. During the years it has evolved a lot, featuring about 1500 articles, extended of using about 60 modules and what's not less important - attracts about 100,000 users monthly. For more than 4 years this website has been running on Drupal 7.

Despite me thinking of Drupal 7as one of the best Drupal versions so far, I understand the importance of upgrading to the latest Drupal 8 version…

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