Category: Blog

These posts are sometimes instructional and sometimes just my personal reviews of products and software.

Indiegogo project goes live

Our indiegogo project goes live today! In the recent months I have been working tirelessly out of my home studio to finish this little trailer and today our Indiegogo project goes live. I helped shoot this with a 5 man crew as sound and when an actor didn’t show up for his role ended up […]

Pride Short Film Digital Release

Hey all, Andre Rehal’s short film about an underground fighter who tries to carve a small piece out for himself is finally released digitally. Josh Vamos worked with Niall Collins to complete the film with Mathew Rosen composing. Over a portion of a few months we worked to bring a longer version of this film […]

Mining bitcoins with p2pool

Here is my experience and testimonial with mining bitcoins with p2pool, I don’t know all that much about it’s inner workings but I assume that I have worked out a somewhat reasonable formula for success. You need to have a few things in line for this to be a profitable venture guaranteed. First off is […]

Quadro FX 4800 teardown

Recently I had been having issues with heat and intermittent freezing of my Hackintosh. These crashes always happened during graphical processes like watching Netflix, or editing sound and it started getting out of hand as the temperature outside was rising. I figured I was experiencing that which I had been seeing at work with a […]

Mining with P2Pool in the wake of the 2015 hard fork

Mining with P2Pool in the wake of the 2015 hard fork

Bitcoin is a digital currency that you have probably heard of before. It is ubiquitous in only the nerdiest of places so far. It also has trenchant links with the black market that can hike it’s value, which is something I have reasoned as more or less, why the value is currently stable; solely because of the black markets’ influence on fluidity. In light of the new hard fork I think p2pool will be a great way for DIYers to get some real coins, with Antminers coming down in cost. Now don’t get me wrong, I was pretty stressed out about buying my first bitcoin miner. I have student debts and I didn’t want to end up spending money on a box that eats power, spews heat, and noise but I was pretty sure I had it all figured out.

Using a VPN Service

VPN Servers are available now at as very reasonable rate these days with some plans coming in at sixty dollars or so a year. That’s really cheap as chips when you realize what is at stake. With all the revelations in the past few years of what internet privacy is like these days it’s easy […]

Using DDNS on an Asus router

DDNS or Dynamic Domain Name Service is a great tool for getting access to your home or small-business network from abroad. First, allow me to explain what the function of DNS. When you type myfavouritesite.com into a browser you are actually using a DNS address. A Domain Name Server translates that name to an IP […]