Keep WordPress & phpMyAdmin up-to-date with a single command

Notice: see this follow-up post for better ways of keeping WordPress & phpMyAdmin up-to-date. Keeping up-to-date with the latest versions of commonly used web software such as WordPress and phpMyAdmin can be a bit of a drag if you would have to manually download, unzip and upload new files through FTP each time a new […]

How to enable TRIM for SSDs in Debian 6.0 “Squeeze”

Modern SSDs support the TRIM command for long-term sustained performance. However for TRIM to work right, the OS (and file system) must have support for it. In the case of Linux, you’ll need kernel version 2.6.33 or newer, use ext4 as file system and also tell the kernel to use TRIM using the “discard” mount […]