How to disable the fastmirror yum plugin in CentOS 7 Linux? The fastestmirror function of yum is provided by the package `yum-plugin-fastestmirror`. However, because `yum` depends on it, the `yum-plugin-fastestmirror` package can not be removed. If you try to remove it, `yum` will report failures like. # yum remove yum-plugin-fastestmirror Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Resolving Dependencies
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How to automatically post blog RSS feed to Google plus pages?
Posted onI have a blog with RSS feeds. Feeding to twitter and facebook is supported by many tools. But for the Google plus page, it seems not straightforward. How to automatically post blog RSS feed to Google plus pages? You can use Hootsuite to post blogs through RSS feeds to your Google plus pages. First, register
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Other Mobile Messengers Like WhatsApp
Posted onWhat other mobile messengers like WhatsApp in the market? Messneger Apps focusing on mobile phones WhatsApp: http://www.whatsapp.com/ WeChat: http://www.wechat.com/en/ Kik: http://kik.com/ Kakao Talk: http://www.kakao.com/talk/en LINE: http://line.me/en/ Other “general” messengers that also have mobile clients Google Hangouts: http://www.google.com/ /learnmore/hangouts/ Facebook Messenger: https://www.facebook.com/mobile/messenger Skype: http://www.skype.com/en/download-skype/skype-for-mobile/
MySQL at Facebook
Posted onFacebook uses lots MySQL databases. Any information about how Facebook scales MySQL? Some information on the Web: MySQL at Facebook’s page https://www.facebook.com/MySQLatFacebook?filter=1 A post by Ryan Thiessen, Database Operations at Facebook on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Facebook-Engineering/How-does-Facebook-structure-MySQL-so-that-it-is-robust-and-scalable And more: http://mashable.com/2011/12/15/facebook-timeline-mysql/ http://gigaom.com/2011/12/06/facebook-shares-some-secrets-on-making-mysql-scale/ http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2011/12/facebook-timeline-anatomy “A lot of people are surprised that for this shiny new thing for Facebook, we’re using
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Cache at Facebook
Posted onAbout caching system at Facebook. According to: https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/monitoring-cache-with-claspin/10151076705703920 Facebook has two major cache systems: Memcache, which is a simple lookaside cache with most of its smarts in the client, and TAO, a caching graph database that does its own queries to MySQL. The NSDI’13 paper introduces more about Memcache: https://www.usenix.org/conference/nsdi13/scaling-memcache-facebook The USENIX ATC’13 paper introduces
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How to add social icons to Q2A?
Posted onHow to add the social share icons to q2a as shown in this site? This site uses the Question2Answer Share plugin: https://github.com/NoahY/q2a-share After installing the plugin by downloading and copying the directory for the plugin to the qa-plugin directory, you can select the networks to share to in ‘Admin -> Plugins’. I see. Thanks!
Single sign-in for social accounts for question2answer?
Posted onHow to enable single sign-in for social accounts for question2answer? These servers are required: Google, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID. This site moved from Loginza to Question2Answer Open Login which works like a charm. I use the Loginza and it works very well. For Q2A, SLonoed wrote a nice plugin for loginza. How to use it: Download
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Web2 Icons: Icons of Social Networking in iPhone Style
Posted onWhen I tried to find a group of icons for my site, I got to the Web 2 Icons and decided to use it. Web2 icons is a set of icons of social networking in iPhone style. I used the RSS feed, twitter and facebook icons. But it has more icons in the package. It
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