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192 </div> 193 </div> 194 </nav><!-- .site-navigation --> 195 </header><!-- #masthead --> 196 197 <div id="content" class="site-content"> 198 199 <div class="top-section"> 200 </div> 201 202 <div class="container main-content-area"> 203 <div class="row pull-right"> 204 <div class="main-content-inner col-sm-12 col-md-8"> 205 206 <div id="primary" class="content-area"> 207 <main id="main" class="site-main" role="main"> 208 209 210<article id="post-5749" class="post-5749 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-random"> 211 <div class="blog-item-wrap"> 212 <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/checking-tler-setting-for-linux-hard-drives/" title="Checking TLER setting for linux hard drives" > 213 </a> 214 <div class="post-inner-content"> 215 <header class="entry-header page-header"> 216 217 <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/checking-tler-setting-for-linux-hard-drives/" rel="bookmark">Checking TLER setting for linux hard drives</a></h2> 218 219 <div class="entry-meta"> 220 <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-calendar-alt"></i> <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/checking-tler-setting-for-linux-hard-drives/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2019-11-16T13:13:24-04:00">November 16, 2019</time><time class="updated" datetime="2019-11-16T13:13:24-04:00">November 16, 2019</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.timlinden.com/author/tim/">Tim</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments"></i><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/checking-tler-setting-for-linux-hard-drives/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> 221 222 223 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 224 </header><!-- .entry-header --> 225 226 <div class="entry-content"> 227 228 <p>When using hard drives in a NAS, it’s important that the drives have a proper TLER setting. This setting tells the hard drive to stop error recovery after a certain amount of time. NAS systems have their own error recovery system, so a drive taking a long time to recover for an error can actually negatively impact the rest of the NAS array.</p> 229<p><code>for drive in $(ls -la /dev | grep -E 'sd[a-z]$' | awk '{print $10}'); do echo "Checking TLER setting for drive ${drive}:"; smartctl -l scterc /dev/${drive}; echo ''; done</code></p> 230<p>To turn the setting on for a drive that states it is disabled:</p> 231<p><code>smartctl -l scterc,70,70 /dev/sdg</code></p> 232 233 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 234 </div> 235 </div> 236</article><!-- #post-## --> 237 238<article id="post-5743" class="post-5743 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-wordpress"> 239 <div class="blog-item-wrap"> 240 <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/include-wpdb-outside-wordpress/" title="include wpdb outside wordpress" > 241 </a> 242 <div class="post-inner-content"> 243 <header class="entry-header page-header"> 244 245 <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/include-wpdb-outside-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">include wpdb outside wordpress</a></h2> 246 247 <div class="entry-meta"> 248 <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-calendar-alt"></i> <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/include-wpdb-outside-wordpress/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2018-11-09T21:25:46-04:00">November 9, 2018</time><time class="updated" datetime="2018-11-09T21:25:46-04:00">November 9, 2018</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.timlinden.com/author/tim/">Tim</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments"></i><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/include-wpdb-outside-wordpress/#respond">Leave a comment</a></span> 249 250 251 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 252 </header><!-- .entry-header --> 253 254 <div class="entry-content"> 255 256 <p>If you need to load the <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/wordpress-plugins/" class="wpinterlink">WordPress</a> database outside of <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/wordpress-plugins/" class="wpinterlink">WordPress</a> (for cron jobs, specialty pages, etc) simply put this at the beginning of your script:</p> 257<p><code>define( 'SHORTINIT', true );<br /> 258require_once( $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] . '/wp-load.php' );</code></p> 259<p>This will tell <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/wordpress-plugins/" class="wpinterlink">WordPress</a> to load up with as little as necessary. If you don’t have the <code>SHORTINIT</code> call then it will load all of <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/wordpress-plugins/" class="wpinterlink">WordPress</a> as normal (which you probably don’t want).</p> 260 261 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 262 </div> 263 </div> 264</article><!-- #post-## --> 265 266<article id="post-5155" class="post-5155 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-youtube-creators"> 267 <div class="blog-item-wrap"> 268 <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/started-youtube-channel/" title="I started a YouTube Channel" > 269 </a> 270 <div class="post-inner-content"> 271 <header class="entry-header page-header"> 272 273 <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/started-youtube-channel/" rel="bookmark">I started a YouTube Channel</a></h2> 274 275 <div class="entry-meta"> 276 <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-calendar-alt"></i> <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/started-youtube-channel/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2016-05-16T14:31:35-04:00">May 16, 2016</time><time class="updated" datetime="2018-10-25T08:53:06-04:00">October 25, 2018</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.timlinden.com/author/tim/">Tim</a></span></span>
276 <span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments"></i><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/started-youtube-channel/#comments">1 Comment</a></span> 277 278 279 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 280 </header><!-- .entry-header --> 281 282 <div class="entry-content"> 283 284 <p>I’ve been watching lawn care videos on youtube for a while now, and I’ve been joking about making my own. Then friends started telling me I should. And today Justin concinved me to. So here we go.. I’m now known as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1Tv_Bd07M1FachT30W1W8g">Grass Daddy</a>!</p> 285<p>If you have a lawn, go ahead and subscribe to the channel. I’ll show you tips and tricks I use on my <a href="https://www.grassdaddy.net/" class="wpinterlink" >grass</a> to make it look amazing.</p> 286 287 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 288 </div> 289 </div> 290</article><!-- #post-## --> 291 292<article id="post-5119" class="post-5119 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-wordpress"> 293 <div class="blog-item-wrap"> 294 <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" title="How To Make Numbered Lists Look Amazing in WordPress" > 295 </a> 296 <div class="post-inner-content"> 297 <header class="entry-header page-header"> 298 299 <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">How To Make Numbered Lists Look Amazing in WordPress</a></h2> 300 301 <div class="entry-meta"> 302 <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-calendar-alt"></i> <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2016-03-14T15:12:06-04:00">March 14, 2016</time><time class="updated" datetime="2016-02-18T17:23:52-04:00">February 18, 2016</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.timlinden.com/author/tim/">Tim</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments"></i><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/#comments">21 Comments</a></span> 303 304 305 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 306 </header><!-- .entry-header --> 307 308 <div class="entry-content"> 309 310 <p>After writing my <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> post on <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/5-reasons-to-use-lists-in-blog-posts/">5 reasons to use lists in blogs</a>, I had people email me asking how I made my lists look so good. I’ll admit, before that post my lists looked ugly. But I spent quite a bit of time playing around to get it to look that way.</p> 311<p>What I ended up coming across was some <a href="https://css-tricks.com/numbering-in-style/" target="_blank">css tricks</a> that let you do numbering in different styles. I had to modify it to work with the lists I was making. First, I’ll give you the code to put into your theme’s custom.css file:</p> 312<pre>.fancy { 313   counter-reset: fancy-counter; 314   list-style: none; 315} 316 317.fancy li:before { 318   content: counter(fancy-counter); 319   counter-increment: fancy-counter; 320   left: -40px; 321   position: relative; 322   top: 25px; 323   font: bold 50px/1 Sans-Serif; 324} 325 326.fancy strong { 327   margin-left: -30px; 328}</pre> 329<p>Once this is in your theme’s custom.css file, you can create a new numbered list with <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/wordpress-plugins/" class="wpinterlink">WordPress</a> just like you always have, with two exceptions:</p> 330<ol class="fancy"> 331<li><strong>You must use the bold tag</strong> at the begging of each section. As you can see in the css above, strong (which is what <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/wordpress-plugins/" class="wpinterlink">WordPress</a> uses for bolding), has a margin that is being offset by 30 pixels. This is to counter the space the numbers take up.</li> 332<li><strong>You must add the fancy class</strong> to the <ol> tag. This can be done by changing your <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/wordpress-plugins/" class="wpinterlink">WordPress</a> Visual Editor from Visual to Text mode. Change the <ol> to <ol class=”fancy”>. This prevents lists outside of your content from getting changed, ensuring your <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> doesn’t break.</li> 333</ol> 334<p>That’s all there is to it. Seems complicated at first but once you get it figured out it really doesn’t add much to your flow when creating new posts. But it has an amazingly beautiful effect that’ll help your <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> look that much better.</p> 335 336 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 337 </div> 338 </div> 339</article><!-- #post-## --> 340 341<article id="post-5142" class="post-5142 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-full-stack"> 342 <div class="blog-item-wrap"> 343 <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/database-server-maintenence/" title="Database Server Maintenance" > 344 </a> 345 <div class="post-inner-content"> 346 <header class="entry-header page-header"> 347 348 <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/database-server-maintenence/" rel="bookmark">Database Server Maintenance</a></h2> 349 350 <div class="entry-meta"> 351 <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-calendar-alt"></i> <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/database-server-maintenence/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2016-03-07T14:57:14-04:00">March 7, 2016</time><time class="updated" datetime="2018-10-25T08:53:23-04:00">October 25, 2018</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.timlinden.com/author/tim/">Tim</a></span></span> 352 353 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 354 </header><!-- .entry-header --> 355 356 <div class="entry-content"> 357 358 <p>While investigating sluggish behavior on our database server this morning I noticed that a couple of our settings were not properly optimized. As a result we’ll be updating these settings tomorrow to ensure our website is as fast as can be.</p> 359<p>The actual process is quite simple, and should have a small amount of downtime. We’
359ll be doing it sometime between 2AM and 9AM EST. The actual window of downtime shouldn’t be longer than 15 minutes.</p> 360<p>I’ll be posting updates on this post. Our server techs will be handling the process to ensure it’s done as quickly as possible. I’ll update here if I get a more specific time frame.</p> 361<p><strong>Update:</strong> The process went smoothly with only a few minutes of downtime. Hurray!</p> 362 363 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 364 </div> 365 </div> 366</article><!-- #post-## --> 367 368<article id="post-5098" class="post-5098 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-wordpress"> 369 <div class="blog-item-wrap"> 370 <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/5-reasons-to-use-lists-in-blog-posts/" title="5 Reasons to Use Lists in Blog Posts" > 371 </a> 372 <div class="post-inner-content"> 373 <header class="entry-header page-header"> 374 375 <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/5-reasons-to-use-lists-in-blog-posts/" rel="bookmark">5 Reasons to Use Lists in Blog Posts</a></h2> 376 377 <div class="entry-meta"> 378 <span class="posted-on"><i class="fa fa-calendar-alt"></i> <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/5-reasons-to-use-lists-in-blog-posts/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2016-03-07T07:04:26-04:00">March 7, 2016</time><time class="updated" datetime="2016-02-18T15:22:42-04:00">February 18, 2016</time></a></span><span class="byline"> <i class="fa fa-user"></i> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.timlinden.com/author/tim/">Tim</a></span></span> <span class="comments-link"><i class="fa fa-comments"></i><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/5-reasons-to-use-lists-in-blog-posts/#comments">3 Comments</a></span> 379 380 381 </div><!-- .entry-meta --> 382 </header><!-- .entry-header --> 383 384 <div class="entry-content"> 385 386 <p>When it comes time to write <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> posts it can be really difficult getting your thoughts organized into one post. Today I’m going to tell you 5 reasons why you should use lists in <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> posts!</p> 387<ol class="fancy"> 388<li><strong>They are easier to write</strong>. When you come up with a topic, it’s easy to keep it focused when it’s broken down into simple chunks. It really can help when you’ve got writers block to use a list to get your groove on.</li> 389<li><strong>They are easier to read</strong>. I’ll admit it, I skim over <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> posts. I love <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> posts that use lists because I can skim and skip what I know and read what I don’t. Then end result? I end up at your <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> more often than ones that don’t.</li> 390<li><strong>Lists go viral</strong>. Now I’m guessing this is because they are easier to read so when you come across a post that isn’t in list format it just won’t go viral. But it’s true, my facebook feed is filled with these kinds of posts, and google serves me these pages all the time in my results too.</li> 391<li><strong>Lists make you look authoritative.</strong> It’s kinda funny but when someone has a <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> post with 5 reasons of this or 5 reasons of that, they look like they thought it out more than someone who wrote the same content but didn’t put it in list form. There could be 5 more reasons, but the fact that they are numbered and presented that way makes it appear much more thought out.</li> 392<li><strong>They keep you on track</strong>. This has helped me before. I tend to go on tangents and move off topic. But when you say these are 5 reasons to use lists, I quickly stop myself when I realize I’m writing about another topic. In the end a much better <a href="https://www.timlinden.com/how-to-make-numbered-lists-look-amazing-in-wordpress/" class="wpinterlink">blog</a> post comes out because it’s kept on topic.</li> 393</ol> 394<p>So there you have it, from the master blogger himself, 5 reasons to use lists when blogging!</p> 395 396 </div><!-- .entry-content --> 397 </div> 398 </div> 399</article><!-- #post-## --> 400 401 <nav class="navigation pagination" role="navigation" aria-label="Posts"> 402 <h2 class="screen-reader-text">Posts navigation</h2> 403 <div class="nav-links"><span aria-current="page" class="page-numbers current">1</span> 404<a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.timlinden.com/page/2/">2</a> 405<span class="page-numbers dots">…</span> 406<a class="page-numbers" href="https://www.timlinden.com/page/13/">13</a> 407<a class="next page-numbers" href="https://www.timlinden.com/page/2/">Older posts <i class="fa fa-chevron-right"></i></a></div> 408 </nav> 409 </main><!-- #main --> 410 </div><!-- #primary --> 411 412</div><!-- close .main-content-inner --> 413<div id="secondary" class="widget-area col-sm-12 col-md-4" role="complementary"> 414 <div class="well">
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