Category Archives: Linux

New server

Posted on 13/01/2013 by Jouni Rinne

This site, Kawaii Dieselpunk, is now running on a new (well, newer) server hardware. What prompted me to upgrade the system was that at some point I suddenly realized with a chill, that the hard drive I had used when … Continue reading →

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Replacing WordPress wp-cron with a cron job

Posted on 25/07/2012 by Jouni Rinne

There is a build-in feature in WordPress for scheduling various events, which is called wp-cron. For some reason or other it seems to work very sporadically, and in my case for backup scheduling, most of the time it didn’t work … Continue reading →

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Useful snippets #1: Backup drive check and GPU/disk temperature

Posted on 03/06/2012 by Jouni Rinne

I thought to share here some of the bash scripts I’ve made for maintaining my Gentoo Linux system. 1. Checking for a correct detachable drive before backing up with rsync. In my case, the script checks whether the correct eSATA … Continue reading →

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A Short History of Linux Distributions (as used by me)

Posted on 02/04/2012 by Jouni Rinne

I’m quite sure this post interests nobody, but… My first contact with Linux was Red Hat 7.0. I didn’t understand it at all, but still was hooked, so when 7.2 was released, I upgraded and gradually started to understand and … Continue reading →

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