This tutorial introduces how to exclude certain repositories in yum. Excluding certain repositories is needed usually. One example may be when you have several repositories that have the same package and you only want the one from a certain repository. For my situation, I choose to exclude the google-chrome and other repositories from Google when
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How to set Google Chrome’s proxy settings in command line on Linux?
Posted onHow to set Google Chrome’s proxy settings in command line on Linux? I am using Google Chrome on Linux and start it by google-chrome. How can I set the proxy using the command line? It tell me that my desktop is not supported but I can set the proxy in command line. Use the –proxy-server
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How to add Google Custom Search to Question2answer?
Posted onHow to add Google Custom Search to Question2answer? I do not want to create / edit / use a advanced theme. What I prefer is a plugin to replace the default search module with Google Custom Search. Thanks! Check out the Google Custom Search plugin: Google Custom Search plugin This site use it and it
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How to Sync the Contacts in My iPhone with Google Gmail Account
Posted onHow to Sync the Contacts in My iPhone with Google Gmail Account? To sync your Google contacts, one good method is using CardDAV. You’ll be able to edit, add, and remove contacts from your device and keep them in sync with your Google Gmail account. It is straightforward: Open the Settings application on your device.
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Chrome’s KDE proxy integration broken on KDE / Fedora
Posted onChrome reads the proxy settings from Gnome correctly. However, when I run Chrome under KDE, the proxy integration is broken: In the settings of Chrome, clicking the “Change proxy settings” opens the KDE proxy setting dialog correctly (the command kcmshell4 proxy actually is executed). However, after the proxy settings are made, Chrome does not read
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SQL layers on NoSQL databases
Posted onWhat are the SQL layer solution over NoSQL databases such as key/value stores? Phoenix: A SQL layer on HBase: https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix They also show some performance results: https://github.com/forcedotcom/phoenix/wiki/Performance F1 – The Fault-Tolerant Distributed RDBMS Supporting Google’s Ad Business: http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html With F1, we have built a novel hybrid system that combines the scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding,
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New Mingle Forum Class
Posted onHi , Thank you for your recommendation for removing the canonical link for the forum page only. However, I am am not able to find the following code in the wpf.class.php and was hoping you let us know where we can find this class so that we can modify it accordingly. (Does -1260 refer to
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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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Free server images – SysTutorials QA
Posted onAny free server images? 24 Free Data Center Photos from fatcow.com 24 Free Data Center Photos: http://www.fatcow.com/data-center-photos From Wikimedia commons: Multiple servers: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Server-multiple.svg Server: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Server.svg Yellow server: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Server-yellow.svg Green server: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Server-green.svg More from clker.com: Web Virtualization Server clip art: http://www.clker.com/clipart-1826.html Small Case Web Mail Server clip art: http://www.clker.com/clipart-1902.html Inside our data centers from Google —
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Disable WordPress Built-in Canonical URL link tag in HTML head
Posted onThe built-in canonical URL function since WordPress 2.9 is great. But under some situation, it is not needed. For example, all the Mingle Forum threads’ canonical URL is set to the URL of the page that contains the [mingleforum] shortcode, which, of course, is wrong. How to diabled it? We can disabled WordPress’s Built-in Canonical
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How to add author information in Google search results
Posted onHow to enable the author information in Google search results as shown for many posts? As a post writer, we may want our authorship information to appear in search results. To do this, we need a Google+ Profile with a good, recognizable headshot as the profile photo. Then, verify authorship of our content by associating
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Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows
Posted onWhat are the Google Chrome keyboard and mouse shortcuts for Linux and Windows? Keyboard shortcuts of Chrome can make it easier to control the browser and save our time. Here are a list of commonly used shortcuts: Ctrl+T Opens a new tab. Press Ctrl and click a link. Or click a link with your middle
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Prevent Chrome closing after closing the last tab
Posted on How to prevent Chrome from closing itself after I close the last tab? This is a feature I want to have. This is a feature I want to have. Last Tab Standing plugin plays the trick: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/last-tab-standing/dlopnnfglheodcopccdllffcijjeenkj If the last tab is closed, this extension stops Chrome from closing and instead opens the New
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Synchronizing home directories
Posted onAny good tools to synchronize home directories on Linux boxes? Many have several PC/laptops and consequently many home directories. There is home directory synchronizing problem. unison is a good tool to do this: http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/download/releases/stable/unison-manual.html#rshmeth http://www.watzmann.net/blog/2009/02/my-homedirs-in-unison.html http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/papers/index.shtml#File%20Synchronization Useful script: $ unison -batch -ui text ./ /mnt/homebak/zma/ In text user interface, synchronizing two directories in batch mode
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A List of Common Software on Windows
Posted onQuick links to some useful software on Windows including Web browsers, Video/audio player and ssh/scpsftp/vnc tools for connecting to Linux. ssh/scp/sftp/vnc for connecting to Linux For Linux users, it is sometimes unavoidably to use Windows. With Windows, the Linux users will need to connect to Linux for some tasks. Some general software are needed. The
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7 Common On Page SEO Mistakes You Are Making and You Should Not
Posted onWith Google algorithm becoming more intelligent with each passing day, the margin for errors has significantly reduced over the past decade. Back in the day, you might get away with keyword stuffing but today, the same offense will strike off your website from Google search engine results. No one wants that, right. To save you
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How Easy Is It to Perform SEO?
Posted onThe word “viral” has received a lot of attention over the last few years and is applied to different types of content to describe how quickly it has spread and gained popularity. Many times, you’ll hear people speak about their idea and how fast it will spread while assuming that it will “go viral”, but
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Make Better Decisions for Your Businesses with Data Visualization
Posted onIn today’s time, data visualization has become a significant part of the success story of an organization. With the help of right techniques, visualizing data can reveal insights which the management staff can use in their decision-making in order to make sound data-driven decisions. Mapping software is among the robust data visualization tools that you
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Are You Wanting to Learn a Programming Language? Read Before Your Make a Choice
Posted onMaking a career choice is difficult. And, if you have decided on becoming a programmer, the difficulty is just beginning. The most important thing is to first decide the language that you want to learn and this is often the most difficult decision. The good part is that you know you need to focus on
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Additional Repositories for CentOS Linux
Posted onCentOS is a super solid Linux distro. However, its default repository’s packages are limited compared to Fedora. Even Fedora needs some additional repositories to have software packages for daily usage, such as MPlayer, ffmpeg. Fortunately, some community maintained repositories provides these software. In this post, we introduce theses additional common repositories and how to install
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