PC Build: Intel Core i7 Sandy Bridge
Recently I decided it was time to upgrade my main desktop computer. My current system, featuring an Intel DP55KG motherboard (P55 Chipset/Socket 1156), Intel Core i7-860 (Lynnfield) processor, AMD Radeon HD 5870 GPU, and 8 GB of DDR3-1600 Mushkin RAM, had served me well, but I was anxious to give Intel’s “Sandy Bridge” architecture a […] Read More →
How to Fix Duplicate Title and Meta Tags When Spanning Multiple Home Pages in WordPress
This post describes how to fix duplicate meta and title tag content when spanning multiple home pages in WordPress. This isn’t a topic I normally cover here at www.iceflatline.com, but after searching for a solution to this problem for this site and continually encountering advice such as just add a plugin, I decided to post […] Read More →
Using xargs
Recently I decided to update and re-tag my music collection, which had suffered at the hands of the untrained and uncaring for far too long. The album art in particular, comprised of various jpg files and scattered throughout the numerous artist and album directories, was incomplete and/or inaccurate. I decided I needed a way to […] Read More →
Google +1 Button
I’ve never been all that keen on all those little social buttons that one sees cluttering nearly every web site you visit these days. You’ve seen them – Facebook’s “Like” button, Twitter’s iconic blue bird, and the like. As a web user I find them distracting. I suppose they make a certain kind of sense […] Read More →
Install and Configure CrunchBang Linux on the Lenovo T410 Laptop
(20120629- This post has been amended to address changes in current versions of CrunchBang and GParted — iceflatline) This post will describe how I installed and configured CrunchBang Linux for use on a Lenovo ThinkPad T410, the challenges that I encountered, and how those challenges were overcome. CrunchBang is a Debian-based distribution featuring the light-weight […] Read More →