How to install and use minergate

How to install and use minergate

So you want to start mining cryptocurrency but don’t know where or how to start. Or you just want to keep mining simple and easy to use. Then Minergate is your answer. Minergate is a program which allows you to mine several cryptocurrency without all the hassle of manual settings and selecting the right mining pool etc. Just install and run, thats it!

Install Minergate

To install Minergate use this link to go to their website and create an account. Then download the latest version of the application. It will automatically detect your OS and select the right downloader for you. Otherwise you can choose your own if necessary.
After download double-click the installer and choose you’re settings (leave default in most cases)
minergate-welcome

minergate-location
minergate-location

Once the installation is finished start the program. First thing you need to do login to the application with the same credentials you used on their website, and click on start mining.

minergate login
minergate login

Mining with Minergate

Once the application is running their are basically two ways to use the program.
1. Smart mining (automatically)
2. Manual mining

Smart mining

Click on smart mining

smart mining
smart mining

The application will automatically select the best currency for you based on the highest exchange rate during the last hour. In other words, it will give you most value for mining.

Manual mining

If you however feel confident to select your own currency, then choose the ‘Miner’ tab and you can choose one or more currencies to mine at the same time.

manual mining
manual mining

Benchmark

Last thing to mention is the benchmark option. Start this benchmark to find out how ‘good’ your hardware is for mining. It is a CPU intensive application, and for some computers it can even mine with your GPU. The application is ‘smart’ enough to detect these things so thats why its so easy to use. Make sure to update Minergate when it tells you to, because it will improve over time.

 

How to install Pi-Hole

How to install Pi-Hole

In this article I will explain how to install pi-hole. But first a short introduction to pi-hole itself.

The Pi-hole is an advertising-aware DNS server that prevents ads from being downloaded. In other words…surf the internet without those annoying ads popping up all over the place. This is annoying because most websites have way to many ads, but more important because in many occasions ads are infecting your software with malware.

So lets get to it.

1 Find your raspberry pi and dust it off (in my case) or buy one. Also any other pc will work. But a small computer uses less power and its silence and all.

2 Download raspbian jessie lite (or the normal edition) and use a disk imaging tool to write it to an SD card. I used a 4GB one, this is more then enough.

3 Put the SD card in your Raspberry pi and boot it up. Once its booted run the sudo apt-get upgrade command to install the latest packages. Then run the curl -L https://install.pi-hole.net |bash command. Then a short wizard will start. Nothing to complicated, some questions about network settings and DNS preference. I’m sure you can handle it. Then it will install some more packages, nothing serious so just wait a bit.
pi-hole-install

4 Edit your DNS settings on every network device or edit your routers DNS settings. Either way, set it to use your pi’s ip address as the DNS server. For instance on my network the pi has the ip address 192.168.1.66. So on my mac I would go to the advanced settings of my WiFi connection and added the ip address as the DNS server.
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5 browse to some news websites like normal and maybe you already see a change on the pages. Some white spaces, or blank sidebars. There used to be ads there (gnif gnif). Just to make sure what you are ‘missing’ go to the ip address of your pi, in my case 192.168.1.66/admin and watch the magic happen.
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Some things to take in to consideration:

1 use a secondary DNS server in your settings, for example 8.8.8.8 (google’s DNS server). In case your pi-hole stops working, you want to have a backup DNS (with ads though :))

2 If you like this and want to support the developers (and you should) then donate some cash or bitcoin(s).

Polar M400 krijgt nieuwe kleuren

Polar M400 sporthorloge maakt je leven kleurrijk

Je favoriete sporthorloge krijgt een kleuren makeover

De polar M400 sporthorloge is vanaf nu ook beschikbaar in het blauw en rose, waarbij de rose een iets kleinere polsband heeft voor de dunnere polsen.

Het horloge heeft al verschillende software updates ontvangen die telkens nieuwe functionaliteiten toevoegen, en nu is er dus ook een update van de buitenkant. Met deze kleuren toevoegingen hoop Garmin een meer ‘lifestyle’ product aan te bieden, die het gat tussen sport/activity horloge en smartwatch moet dichten.

Beide kleuren zijn per direct beschikbaar, waarbij de blauwe versie ook zonder hartslag band beschikbaar is vanaf 159 euro

Blauw zonder hartslagmeter
Blauw met harstlagmeter
Rose met harstlagmeter

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Angry Birds 2 Game

Angry Birds 2 Game

Angry Birds 2 Game-play, official app release is released today. No more under pigstruction. The whole world can now play this cool angry birds game. Its available on Android and iOS, for smarthpones and Tablets.

This is actually the thirteenth angry birds game, but its most likely the best update to the original. We had some spin offs like the angry birds star wars and Angry Birds Transformers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MryLNzA2b9I) which are all cool te play. But this picks up the original story, with some nice improvements. Check out this gameplay video and leave some comments below.

Download for Android:
Download for ios:

RSA Authentication Manager Active Directory search filter

RSA Authentication Manager Active Directory search filter

When you install RSA Authentication Manager and create a identity source to search for the active directory users, you would probably want to create a search filter to prevent RSA from seeing every user in the Active Directory.

To configure a identity source you need to provide the User Base DN and the user Group Base DN. Let’s say for example our active directory is configurerd for this domain: example.com with 1200 users, but only 100 would use RSA tokens.

You could say the user base DN is: DC=example,DC=com and use the same for the user group base DN. Every user within this domain will be displayed in RSA.
Authentication manager will ‘see’ all 1200 users but can only display 500 at once, so this is to much information and makes searching a bit slower and less convenient.

So you could create a security group in Active directory, for example RSA-users and only make the 100 RSA users member of this group. Then configure RSA to filter the search for this group:

Searchfilter

Once this is applied, only users who are member of the securitry group will be displayed in RSA software.

RSA authentication manager 7.x temporary admin

Forgotten The Password For RSA SecurID Superadmin Account

If you ever lock yourself out of the Security console, or you just forgot the superadmin credentials, there is a option to create a temporary admin. Use these steps to create one.

1. For windows open a CMD windows and browse to the RSAutil.exe, which is under the /utils folder of the RSA installation folder.

2. Type in the following command. rsautil restore-admin -u tempAdmin -p Password1!!
where tempAdmin will be your temporary username and where Password1!! will be the password for this user.

3. Login to the security console using the credentials from step 2.

4. Go to Identity – Users – Manage existing and look for the superadmin account

5. Choose Edit from the menu, and change the password. Click Save!

6. Logout the Security console and login with the original account and the new password to check if everything is working. (because the temporary account will work for only 24 hours, and you will have to start over)