Starting with Ubuntu 15.04, Canonical replaced their own init system Upstart with the new Linux standard Systemd. Even though this is a big change on a technical level, it was entirely transparent for all packages in the official repositories. BubbleUPnP Server, a closed source third party application, was the only application I had any issues with. I'll show you how you can make it work with systemd.
There are a lot of ways to configure a server with multiple disks as a redundant network attached storage device. Most rely on RAID-like systems, but there are alternatives. In this post I compare a few of those systems and explain why I chose to use AUFS combined with snapraid.
WD Green and Red disks are physically identical, with only a firmware setting distinguishing them. The default settings on a WD Green will cause them to die prematurely when used in a file server environment. Fortunately you can change this setting very easily. Here's how.
Through the Github Atom editor, I recently discovered the Monokai colour theme. This theme was originally created for the TextMate editor and then converted to Atom. Because I find it quite pleasing to look at for long periods of time, I decided to give my terminal a similar look.
Even though the official line is that the open source AMD radeon drivers are not supported, you can get them to work very easily.