You love your WordPress installation but you need that little extra something? These 3 WordPress Performance and WordPress Optimization plugins will make your day. You need to understand the basics of stuff like MySQL queries, be familiar with changing settings in my.cnf and make sure you have a backup of your DB (data base) before you run any of the following WordPress Performance and WordPress Optimization plugins.
The concept is simple. You need to find what is causing your blog and site to be slow. Looking for delays in old plugin queries or old theme files is a great way to improve WordPress Performance. Assuming your web server is properly configured and that you already use caching plugins like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache. Continue reading »
This is pretty straight forward. MySQL doesn’t generally warn you if you use old variable settings rather than the new ones. Also there is no comment suggesting that perhaps these old variables will be removed at some later stage. A bug report is already filled. Until MySQL 5.5.21 my.cnf uses both deprecated old and new variables without a warning on startup.
Puppet Enterprise is IT automation software that gives system administrators the power to easily automate repetitive tasks, quickly deploy critical applications, and proactively manage infrastructure changes, on-premise or in the cloud. Learn more about Puppet Enterprise below, or download now and manage up to 10 nodes free.
Google uses it. Zynga uses it. Nasa uses it. So does Rackspace and many many other companies. What for? Puppet Labs helps you manage your computers. Here’s what Puppet Labs does, and how it fits into the world. We talked with a couple of the execs at the Open Stack Design Summit (they announced support of OpenStack at that event). http://puppetlabs.com/ has more about puppet labs.
All three new Miss Reef 2012 video for the first quarter of the year. Miss Reef January, Miss Reef February and Miss Reef March. For a quick view you can watch the Miss Reef 2012 Calendar video.
Follow Miss Reef through the beautiful beaches of Culebrita Island, Puerto Rico. This behind the scenes look will give you some insight into all the action that took place in the making of the January spread of the 2012 Miss Reef Calendar. Continue reading »
Food Network Magazine asked top chefs across the country for their best advice and created the top 100 cooking tips of all time. Quick cooking tip for meat and steak lovers: start cooking a steak on the fat side first, so there’s flavorful fat for the rest of the cooking. Read all the 100 cooking tips of all time here.
Fiat money is money that derives its value from government regulation or law. The term derives from the Latin fiat, meaning “let it be done” or “it shall be [money]“, as such money is established by government decree. Where fiat money is used as currency, the term fiat currency is used.
By World War I most nations had a legalized government monopoly on bank notes and the legal tender status thereof. In theory, governments still promised to redeem notes in specie on demand. However, the costs of the war and the massive expansion afterward made governments suspend redemption in specie. Since there was no direct penalty for doing so, governments were not immediately responsible for the economic consequences of printing more money, which led to hyperinflation – for example in Weimar Germany.
Attempts were made to reassert currency stability by anchoring it to wholesale gold bullion rather than making it payable in specie. This money combined pure fiat currency, in that the currency was limited to central bank notes and token coins that were current only by government fiat, with a form of convertibility, via gold bullion exchange, or via exchange into US dollars which were convertible into gold bullion, under the 1945 Bretton Woods system.
There’s more to the cosmos than meets the eye. About 80 percent of the matter in the universe is invisible to telescopes, yet its gravitational influence is manifest in the orbital speeds of stars around galaxies and in the motions of clusters of galaxies. Yet, despite decades of effort, no one knows what this “dark matter” really is. Many scientists think it’s likely that the mystery will be solved with the discovery of new kinds of subatomic particles, types necessarily different from those composing atoms of the ordinary matter all around us. The search to detect and identify these particles is underway in experiments both around the globe and above it.
Scientists working with data from NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have looked for signals from some of these hypothetical particles by zeroing in on 10 small, faint galaxies that orbit our own. Although no signals have been detected, a novel analysis technique applied to two years of data from the observatory’s Large Area Telescope (LAT) has essentially eliminated these particle candidates for the first time.
WIMPs, or Weakly Interacting Massive Particles, represent a favored class of dark matter candidates. Some WIMPs may mutually annihilate when pairs of them interact, a process expected to produce gamma rays — the most energetic form of light — that the LAT is designed to detect.
The team examined two years of LAT-detected gamma rays with energies in the range from 200 million to 100 billion electron volts (GeV) from 10 of the roughly two dozen dwarf galaxies known to orbit the Milky Way. Instead of analyzing the results for each galaxy separately, the scientists developed a statistical technique — they call it a “joint likelihood analysis” — that evaluates all of the galaxies at once without merging the data together. No gamma-ray signal consistent with the annihilations expected from four different types of commonly considered WIMP particles was found.
For the first time, the results show that WIMP candidates within a specific range of masses and interaction rates cannot be dark matter. A paper detailing these results appeared in the Dec. 9, 2011, issue of Physical Review Letters.
Learn more at: http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/GLAST/news/dark-matter-insights.html
A new store isn’t going to solve the major problem with Android tablets, which is that they lack compelling tablet-focused apps from major, popular brands. But it’s a good move, and it’s very different from Google’s first attempt at selling hardware online, the doomed Nexus One store. The reason: this time, wireless carriers aren’t involved.
While this is true and carriers aren’t involved this time, Google has a bad record when it comes to selling hardware:
1. Nexus One – doomed 2. Chromebook – doomed 3. Google tablet – ?
PC Magazine assumes that telcos will give up subsidizing and selling 3G and 4G tablets and surrender to Google’s try to promote the WiFi Google tablet only. With a fail record like that, chances are Google will fail again because Google is still the old Google. This is not a bad thing though. It just means that Google has no retail experience and it still is an engineer driven company.
Even if Google “subsidize these tablets itself” it won’t make much of a difference for the “lack compelling tablet-focused apps” and lack of successful marketing and successful sales of Google hardware using Google online stores.
Google has to make it with its Google tablet store but chances are it won’t, not this time, not this way.
In memory of Whitney Houston and all the great artists who left us too soon. Whitney Houston meets Michael Jackson in heaven along with John Lennon, Jim Morisson, Freddie Mercury, Elvis, Jimi Hendrix, Amy Winehouse and Kurt Cobain.
Even mere mortals can recognize the 10 early signs of the financial crisis, right before the big economy crash. It takes 5 to 3 years from blooming to dooming and the financial meltdown. In the beginning everything is beautiful, smooth and shiny. As time flies pretty much everything turns out to be the clusterfuck we call financial crisis and economy crash.
These are 10 signs to watch pre financial crisis in no particular order.
1. New banks appear out of nowhere 2. Existing banks open new stores like crazy 3. Banks literally beg you to get their money 4. New strip clubs are all over the place 5. Betting, lottery, monitor and number games in the wild 6. Retail stores literally give away their stuff with first payment due to 12 months 7. Retail stores offer almost unlimited opportunities to pay back the bill due to 100 years 8. Telcos create way too many mind boggling products, offer unlimited choices 9. Car companies and leasing companies literally give away cars even super expensive SUVs 10. All of a sudden, “amateur” porn becomes mainstream
Bonus: TV stations rely heavily on reality shows, repetition of older shows, gossip shows
