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212				<a href="https://www.timlinden.com/checking-tler-setting-for-linux-hard-drives/" title="Checking TLER setting for linux hard drives" >
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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>
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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>
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228				<p>When using hard drives in a NAS, it&#8217;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>
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238<article id="post-5743" class="post-5743 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-wordpress">
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240				<a href="https://www.timlinden.com/include-wpdb-outside-wordpress/" title="include wpdb outside wordpress" >
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245				<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/include-wpdb-outside-wordpress/" rel="bookmark">include wpdb outside wordpress</a></h2>
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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>
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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&#8217;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&#8217;t want).</p>
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266<article id="post-5155" class="post-5155 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-youtube-creators">
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268				<a href="https://www.timlinden.com/started-youtube-channel/" title="I started a YouTube Channel" >
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273				<h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://www.timlinden.com/started-youtube-channel/" rel="bookmark">I started a YouTube Channel</a></h2>
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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>
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284				<p>I&#8217;ve been watching lawn care videos on youtube for a while now, and I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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>
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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" >
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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>
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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>
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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&#8217;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&#8217;ll give you the code to put into your theme&#8217;s custom.css file:</p>
312<pre>.fancy {
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329<p>Once this is in your theme&#8217;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 &lt;ol&gt; 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 &lt;ol&gt; to &lt;ol class=&#8221;fancy&#8221;&gt;. 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&#8217;t break.</li>
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334<p>That&#8217;s all there is to it. Seems complicated at first but once you get it figured out it really doesn&#8217;t add much to your flow when creating new posts. But it has an amazingly beautiful effect that&#8217;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>
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343				<a href="https://www.timlinden.com/database-server-maintenence/" title="Database Server Maintenance" >
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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&#8217;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&#8217;
359ll be doing it sometime between 2AM and 9AM EST. The actual window of downtime shouldn&#8217;t be longer than 15 minutes.</p>
360<p>I&#8217;ll be posting updates on this post. Our server techs will be handling the process to ensure it&#8217;s done as quickly as possible. I&#8217;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>
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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&#8217;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>
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388<li><strong>They are easier to write</strong>. When you come up with a topic, it&#8217;s easy to keep it focused when it&#8217;s broken down into simple chunks. It really can help when you&#8217;ve got writers block to use a list to get your groove on.</li>
389<li><strong>They are easier to read</strong>. I&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;t.</li>
390<li><strong>Lists go viral</strong>. Now I&#8217;m guessing this is because they are easier to read so when you come across a post that isn&#8217;t in list format it just won&#8217;t go viral. But it&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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&#8217;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>
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