Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Marius Bogdan Lixandru is a highly experienced content creator from Romania with a background in biology, chemistry and computer programming. He loves writing technical guides that are accessible for non-technical people. Born in 1984, he has always expressed interest in technology. Beyond technology and biology, he has a passion for agriculture, the science and beauty of which have encouraged him to start his own vegetable garden and plant dozens of fruit-bearing trees with fragrant and succulent, sweet and sour fruits. When he’s not losing nights uncovering the deepest hidden secrets of the latest tech devices, he’s likely enjoying a refreshing slice of juicy, honey-sweet watermelon, sluggishly lying on the grass in his orchard, sitting in the shade under the trees he himself has planted. Torpid summer days accompanied by cicada sounds and greeted by his smiling wife and happy, tail-wagging presence of his two mioritic shepherd dogs are some of the simpler pleasures in life that help him recharge his batteries to take on the latest tech challenges. Support My Work and Feel free to contact me.

Synology: WordPress SimpleXML PHP Extension

15 September 20208 August 2020 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

WordPress 5.5 will be released on August 11, 2020 with a new feature. With new version 5.5 – WordPress will expose a sitemap index at: /wp-sitemap.xml This is the main XML file that contains the listing of all the sitemap pages exposed by a WordPress site. The sitemap index can hold a maximum of 50000 … Read more about Synology: WordPress SimpleXML PHP Extension

10 Nostalgic Back to School Synology Wallpapers

11 February 20237 August 2020 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

I feel nostalgia for my school, for my teachers, and especially for my classmates, for their voices, their laughter, and even the discussions we occasionally had in the classroom, for the breaks during which we would play and chat. The alarm clock that rang at 7 in the morning sharp! My mom who would take … Read more about 10 Nostalgic Back to School Synology Wallpapers

How to Install Ouroboros on Your Synology NAS

12 September 20226 August 2020 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

How to Install Watchtower on Your Synology NAS

Ouroboros will monitor (all or specified) running docker containers and update them to the (latest or tagged) available image in the remote registry. The updated container uses the same tag and parameters that were used when the container was first created such as volume/bind mounts, docker network connections, environment variables, restart policies, entry-points, commands, etc. … Read more about How to Install Ouroboros on Your Synology NAS

Synology Docker: Two Loading Screens

7 August 20206 August 2020 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

You must have surely noticed that, when opening the Synology Docker package version 18.09.0-0513, you get two loading screens instead of just one. Surely this is a bug and, after the publication of this article, I will be sending a ticket to Synology engineers so that they may take a good look at the issue. … Read more about Synology Docker: Two Loading Screens

Synology SAT5200-480G Review

1 March 20216 August 2020 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Synology, the King of NAS, has once again risen to the occasion. This time Synology launched a new solid-state drive (SSD) product line, which is mainly designed for the increasingly demanding enterprise-level work environment, such as virtualized workloads and high traffic, database storage, artificial intelligence and high-performance computing. It is true that, as long as … Read more about Synology SAT5200-480G Review

phpMyAdmin: How to Rename a Database

4 August 2020 by Marius Bogdan Lixandru

Have you installed WordPress on your Synology NAS or another application that uses a database but you don’t like the name of the database previously created with MariaDB 10 and want to change it? How can you do that? For one reason or another one day you may need to change the names of your … Read more about phpMyAdmin: How to Rename a Database