You are on the old part of aidanmontare.net, which I am no longer maintaining. Newer versions of some of this content can be found on the active part of my site, which you can reach from my homepage.
One of the great things about using WordPress as a CMS is the number of plugins. If I want a feature for my site, I don’t need to go write and test a bunch of PHP, I simply search for a plugin to do the job. However, the more code one adds to their site, … Continued
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The Gospel of Tux
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I’ve been busy this week, so I haven’t thought much about a decent blog post. So for this week, I’ll just post a bit of stuff I have been doing. Yesterday I updated my WordPress installation to the most recent release. Running the most recent software is important for security, and so I actually blocked … Continued
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell. Read it one day – its good for you, though it won’t make you feel good.
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From my Introductory Blog Post: A few months ago I decided I wanted a website to host my projects. Since this was going to be my website, I decided that I wanted to build the website myself. Not just the pages, but the entire server. But I had never built a web server before. Being … Continued
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Rarely does using WordPress require any interaction with the MySQL database that store’s all your site’s information. However, it is occasionally useful to know how to interact with the database directly. Since MySQL commands can be a little confusing for those who are not familiar with them, here is my reference page for using the … Continued
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A collection of miscellaneous things I find useful in running Linux. Unfortunately I don’t have the sources where I learned all of these, but you can probably find various people repeating the same advice around the internet. Often times there are multiple solutions for these types of problems, this page shows the advice that worked … Continued
I already wrote that one of the hardest things about making this site was deciding what should be a post or a page. Another issue was deciding the difference between categories and tags. Originally, I thought I wouldn’t use categories, as having both categories and tags seemed confusing when they both seemed to do nearly … Continued
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My basement has a bunch of old computers in it. Unfortunately, the newest OS on them is Windows 2000. Who wants to buy a new version of Windows? And it probably wouldn’t work on such old computers. Another reason why Linux is awesome! I have used Ubuntu Studio (any Linux would probably do) to get … Continued
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Firefox is awesome, but there are some things I like to change so that it works better for me. Since I have a bunch of computers and VMs, it becomes annoying to remember all the configuration changes I have made. Thus this page is born. Others may find these configuration options useful as well. Configuration … Continued