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Know Your Internet Memes
Mar 6th
Here’s the definition of Interenet Meme’s from Wikipedia:
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:
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!
Using TAR To Archive A Directory
Mar 5th
Was looking for a way to tar backup a directory on my webserver.
Here is the command:
tar -cvzf /directory/where/you/want/the/backup/to/go/filename.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).tgz /directoy/you/want/to/tar
Here is what this command is doing:
- c — to create a tar file, writing the file starts at the beginning.
- f — specifies the filename (which follows the f) used to tar into or to tar out from
- z — use zip/gzip to compress the tar file or to read from a compressed tar file.
- v — verbose output, show, e.g., during create or extract, the files being stored into or restored from the tar file.
/directory/where/you/want/the/backup/to/go/ is the directory the tar file will reside after the command is run.
filename.$(date +%Y-%m-%d).tgz is the filename of the file you just archived. It will append the year, month, and day to the file So your file will look like this: filename.2010-03-05.tgz
/directoy/you/want/to/tar is the directory including all sub directories that will be archived.
To see more info about tar run “man tar” in your terminal.
LMGTFY … No, Really … Let Me Google That For You. Was That So hard?
Mar 5th
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!
Force Close and “android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly” On Home Rotate
Mar 4th
i was getting the following error on my Android based G1 with the Cyanogen 4.2.15 ROM whenver i rotated the view from the home screen: “The process android.process.acore has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again” and “Force Close”.
The fix to the problem was removing one of the desktop widgets. In this case it was the TasKiller widget, i did a long tap on the widget and dragged it to the garbage can. Problem solved. Apparently this is a common problem with desktop widgets when you upgrade to a newer ROM.
Disabling Remote Differential Compression To Speed Up Network Performance
Mar 3rd
Remote Differential Compression (RDC) allows applications to synchronize data between two computers in an efficient manner. By measuring differences between network files using the RDC compression algorithm files can be synchronized using minimal bandwidth by limiting the amount of data that needs to be sent across the network.
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
“About Remote Differential Compression
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.”
