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Yum fastest mirror plugin (yum-plugin-fastestmirror) allow yum to select the closest and freshest mirror around you for your yum update. Once the yum fastest mirror plugin is activated, whenever you perform yum update or install, you will get a better connection. As yum will search the mirror based on your IP thru the GeoIP system. Yum select the fastest mirror based on:-

1. The connecting location of the client.
2. The current freshness/staleness of the mirrors for that region.

yum fastest mirror plugin (yum-plugin-fastestmirror) sound interesting? Want to try?
To install yum fastest mirror plugin (yum-plugin-fastestmirror) you can use this command:-

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I’ve encounter Error number: 0×80070424 in Windows Update on one of my PC. If you have 0×80070424 i guess you will not able to perform any windows update including using the windows update website. After googling a while i found that Error number: 0×80070424 in Windows Update is caused by some of the dll registration problem.

To solve the Error number: 0×80070424 in Windows Update follow the steps below:-
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Apache web server allow directory browsing by default. It’s always good to disable directory browsing in security aspect. To disable directory browsing in apache web server you need to edit the httpd.conf or .htaccess

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