If you hover over them they have a cool pop-up animation and link you to the respective sites.  When trying to configure these for the site i would go into Appearance>Mystique Settings>SocialMediaIcons and select the icons i wanted to use.  Upon saving the changes it would bring me to a blank screen.  When i would check the front page you could click through on the spot where the icon was but there was no picture.  After doing some research on the Mystique WP Theme help page i found it could be a problem with not having GD installed in my Apache/PHP setup.  Since my host uses Cpanel this is how it was fixed.  go to the Cpanel Web hosting Manager and do the following:

1. executed /scripts/easyapache

2. Selected option 1 “Previously Saved Config”

3. Selected “Start customizing based on profile”

4. Selected the next Apache version to upgrade or select Next

5. Select edthe version of PHP 4 or 5. Do not make any changes if you’re not sure. Keep it as it as and select Next

6. Select the minor version of PHP.

7. Select Exhaustive Options List

8. PHP section has “GD” make sure you select it and select any other additional modules you require and select Next

This should start compiling Apache and PHP depending on the options selected.

You can then run the following to check if it is installed.

root@host [~]# php -m|grep gd
gd
root@host [~]#

Note: Your setup and configuration may be completely different.  If you don’t have access to the above features ask your host if they can fix it.

32 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/i386/
64 bit: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6/os/x86_64/

If these dont work you can try these:

http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/images/
http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/i386/images/

Finally hit next and you should be on your way.  The install should continue as normal and everything the system needs to complete the install will be downloaded and installed.

This was originally designed so you could host the install files on your local network or ftp server but works just as well over the internet.  This is especially useful if you want to do a minimal install so you don’t have to download the entire 4+GB ISO file.

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The term Internet meme is a phrase used to describe a catchphrase or concept that spreads quickly from person to person via the Internet, much like an esoteric inside joke.^[1] The term is a reference to the concept of memes, although this concept refers to a much broader category of cultural information.

If you aren’t hip to the latest Internet meme’s, here’s a great sight to get you caught up:

http://knowyourmeme.com/

It features some of the latest Internet Meme’s like “Kanye West Interrupts Taylor Swift” and some old favorites like “Don’t Tase Me Bro!”.  So next time when you don’t get the joke, check this site and look it up!

This post was inspired by a meeting i had the other day.  A group of us were writing a report and we split the work up equally the week before. During the meeting everyone had their parts of the project ready and one by one we passed the VGA cable connected to the overhead LCD and began to discuss what we wrote.  One of my colleagues plugged his laptop in and said “This is what i am going to write about.”  He then pulled up google and typed in his search.  He had nothing prepared for the deadline.  No joke.

“letmegooglethatforyou.com” or “lmgtfy.com” for short, is a website that pokes fun at situations where people use or don’t use Google when they should be.  To use it, go to the website and type in your search and hit “google search”.  The website will give you a link that you can share with someone else and lmgtfy.com does its magic. Although my above situation isn’t really related to when you would use this tool, it just made me think of how fun this tool can be.

Here’s a better example of when i’ve seen it used.  Say you’re surfing your favorite tech blog site and someone posts “Whats the difference between a Palm Pre and a Palm Pixi?” You go to lmgtfy.com type in “Whats the difference between a Palm Pre and a Palm Pixi?” and get a link like this http://tinyurl.com/yllqtsv.  then you post it for the intended individual to poke fun. Have fun!

Because many pre-Vista Windows operating systems don’t use RDC it may hamper network performance. To turn RDC off In Windows Vista or Windows 7:

Start > Control Panel > Programs And Features

Uncheck “Turn Windows Features On and Off”

It may be a good idea to restart your system at this time even though it doesn’t explicitly ask you to.

Here is the overview from MSDN:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa373254(VS.85).aspx

Remote Differential Compression (RDC) allows data to be synchronized with a remote source using compression techniques to minimize the amount of data sent across the network.

RDC is different from patching-oriented differencing mechanisms, such as Binary Delta Compression (BDC), that are designed to operate only on known versions of a single file. BDC requires the server to have copies of all versions of the file, and differences between each pair of versions are precomputed so that they can be distributed efficiently from a server to multiple clients.

RDC makes no assumptions about file similarity or versioning. Because differences between files are computed on the fly, RDC is ideally suited for synchronizing files that are different or have been updated independently.

RDC does not assume that the file data to be synchronized resides in physical files. Therefore, the RDC application is responsible for performing file I/O on behalf of the RDC library.

Because it is transport independent, RDC can be used with RPC, HTTP, or other desired transport mechanisms. The RDC application bears the responsibility for choosing the appropriate transport and performing any client or server authentication that is required to support the transport’s security model.

RDC is suitable for applications that move data across a wide area network (WAN) where the data transmission costs outweigh the CPU cost of signature computation. RDC can also be used on faster networks if the amount of data to be transferred is relatively large and the changes to the data are typically small.”

Here’s a little tip for gmail users.  Gmail allows you to create multiple addresses using the same gmail address.  Say you have the username howifixedit@gmail.com.  By appending a “+” to it allows you to extend it and thus create a new address that will go to the same account.  For Example:

howifixedit+computers@gmail.com

howifixedit+cellphones@gmail.com

howifixedit+internet@gmal.com

howifixedit+aroundtheweb@gmail.com

Will all go to the howifixedit@gmail.com account.

You can also add a “.” to any address and it will still go to the account in question. For example:

howifixed.it@gmail.com

howi.fixedit@gmail.com

how.ifixedit@gmail.com

how.i.fixed.it@gmail.com

Will all go to howifixedit@gmail.com email box.

Finally you can also use the @googlemail.com as the suffix for your email address and it will go to yourr gmail account.  So howifixedit@gmail.com is the same as howifixedit@googlemail.com.

This is really useful when you want to sign up at different websites around the net.  For example if you wanted to sign up for multiple accounts on Twitter.  Using howifixedit@gmail.com and how.i.fixed.it@gmail.com will allow you to sign up for two twitter account and all your alerts will go to your main account.   Another reason this is useful is for signing up for anything you may potentially be getting junk mail from.  For example, if Doritos has a contest to sign up for free XBOX Live points, like it had in the past, you can sign up for it using howifixedit+doritoscontest@gmail.com.  All the info would go to your main account and in the future if you were to get any spam or advertisements to howifixedit+doritoscontest@gmail.com you would know Doritos was the one that gave out your email address to advertisers or spammers.