Author Archives: Jouni Rinne

Tempus fugit

Today is the 10th anniversary of when I started this – way too occasional – WordPress-based blog. The server hardware is on its third version, software is still courtesy of Larry the Cow… er, that is, Gentoo Linux. Ten years. … Continue reading

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WordPress backups to a remote server

Earlier, I used a WordPress plugin to do periodic backups of the sites I’m hosting, but I came to a conclusion that it would be more reliable, flexible and fun to do the backups via a system script instead, sending … Continue reading

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Killing Zoom popup windows, Awesome/i3-style

During the still-ongoing Covid-19 epidemic the Zoom video conferencing app/service has been a lifeline for many, many people, including myself; I’m using Zoom several times a week. I AM very grateful to the Zoom team for making a version for … Continue reading

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Server updates

This site, Dollz’n’Codez and its sister sites, Miranda and Lux Argentea, were down for some time because of an unscheduled server maintenance. The server got some hardware updates, complete OS reinstall (still Gentoo Linux), and finally, a proper SSL support … Continue reading

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Punching Pulseaudio-RTP through a firewall

As I mentioned in the previous post, I recently set up a network audio server computer using pulseaudio-rtp. Because it would have been a waste of resources to use it only for audio work, I started using it for some … Continue reading

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