Category Archives: Linux

Updating WordPress

By Nick | Published: 31.12.2009
It wouldn’t be so tedious, if they would make things consistent. Well, maybe not consistent, but in-line with what I want. First, when I have to update Wordpress itself, I’m presented with a prompt to update on the control panel. There are two options, “Upgrade Automatically”, which I can’t use since I don’t like setting all [...]
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Getting ALSA to Work on the Intel D201GLY2 in Linux

By Nick | Published: 09.09.2009
My home server is an Intel D201GLY2. It’s a fan-less mini-ITX with a Celeron at 1.2GHz. It supports 2GB and has 2 SATA plugs, an IDE one, on-board sound (intel8×0), on-board video, and basically everything a normal desktop computer would have. Except the sound refused to work in Gentoo.
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A Simple Backup Script for Linux

By Nick | Published: 07.09.2009
Not too long ago I upgraded a hard drive in my home server. I went from a 250 GB media storage drive to a 1000 GB one. The main drive is another 250 GB disk. I decided that since I didn’t have any kind of backup system in place, I could assign those duties to [...]
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