Here's a path to migrate your existing RHEL6 server and convert it in-place to the newly-released CentOS6:
yum clean all
mkdir ~/centos; cd ~/centos
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/Packages/centos-release-6-0.el6.centos.5.x86_64.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-3.2.27-14.el6.centos.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-utils-1.1.26-11.el6.noarch.rpm
wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/6.0/os/x86_64/Packages/yum-plugin-fastestmirror-1.1.26-11.el6.noarch.rpm
rpm --import RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-6
rpm -e --nodeps redhat-release-server
rpm -e yum-rhn-plugin rhn-check rhnsd rhn-setup rhn-setup-gnome
rpm -Uhv --force *.rpm
yum upgrade
My out-of-compliance RHEL6 server is now a wonderfully up-to-date CentOS 6 system:
[root@corrino-rhel ~]# uname -a
Linux corrino-rhel 2.6.32-71.7.1.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 27 03:44:59 EDT 2010 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
[root@corrino-rhel ~]# cat /etc/centos-release
CentOS Linux release 6.0 (Final)
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Tue January 18th, 2011, 16:29: Feeling blah!
So far today I have taken and/or used:
- 60 mg Fexofenadine HCl (antihistamine)
- 120 mg Pseudoephedrine (decongestant, together with the fexofenadine hcl in an Allegra-D 12hour prescription)
- another 30mg Pseudoephedrine (as an extra red Sudafed pill)
- 200 mcg Fluticasone Propionate (corticosteroid, 2 pumps of Flonase in each nostril)
- double dose of Oxymetazoline HCl 0.05% (topical decongestant; 4 pumps of Afrin in each nostril)
- Ayr saline rinse
- Two full boxes of HEB tissues
... and I'm still feeling
MISERABLE !
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Mon January 10th, 2011, 23:30: Equivalency
Jon Stewart tonight:
"Blaming the right for the killings and attempted killings in Arizona this weekend is the same as blaming heavy metal music for the Columbine shootings."
Is he right?
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My full photo album at http://ivo.nu/photos, all 10,000+ pictures in 300 albums, are now behind an authentication box, as to deter any random joe on the internet to see all my family pics. The great thing is that I don't have to send out any username/passwords, as the authentication dialog has the login information right there, that is, if you know even the slightest thing about me, you can log through with no issues.
I also set all Lucas's youtube videos to "unlisted" so that my boy's cute little antics won't show up in anyone's side bar searches. But they're still visible from http://lucasjanssen.net/videos and that's OK.
Just a little bit more privacy at the request of my significant others.
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I kept my word from last week! Backyard work has started. Follow the progress here.
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Thu October 7th, 2010, 14:36: Announcement
Next Thursday/Friday/Saturday/Sunday I'm going to sod my backyard! I've been putting this off for 2.5 years now, so I'm posting this publicly so I have another motivation to actually go through with it.
4 cubic yards of compost, a tiller, and 3 pallets of Zoysia grass later I should finally have a backyard that I can be on, and doesn't wash away with every rain.
Hopefully I can show the results in 10 days from now!
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Mon October 4th, 2010, 20:00: Not even close
Not even close, HEB. Not even close...
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Wed September 8th, 2010, 11:32: Rain
10+ inches of rain, that's over 250mm of water, fell on my neighborhood yesterday!! My rain gauge is still not installed, but my friend down the street had his one running.
I live right in the middle of the picture, right in the "Plus-in-a-circle" under the "35" shield and above the word "Austin", where the Travis-Wilco border dips most south:
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These predictions is what I think will happen, not what I want to happen. Because in that case, NED would beat BRA, go on to beat ENG in the semis and then the finals would be the most awesomest game ever: A 1974 revenge of NED-GER, which NED would win 2-0.
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Thu May 27th, 2010, 14:18: Dutch ballot
My absentee voting ballot for the 2010 Parliamentary elections in the Netherlands. I get to make one choice out of the ~600 or so people.
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Today I was reading through the Rude Pundit's blogentry on a new law in Arizona that deals with whether immigrants can be asked to show that they're legal:
"No official or agency of this state or a county, city, town or other political subdivision of this state may adopt a policy that limits or restricts the enforcement of federal immigration laws to less than the full extent permitted by federal law."
The way that our Rude Pundit interprets that in his usual rude way is:
[...] Arizona, decided that the police now have the power to stop and ask people for their papers in order to determine if someone is a citizen. And if that person doesn't have papers? Are they assumed to be innocent? Aw, fuck no. That's for pussy states, not Arizona, which all big and tough with its big and tough white people. You are assumed at that point to be illegal. It's charmingly retro, like South African apartheid, except a few skin shades lighter.
First off, Arizona didn't actually create a brand-new policy, they simply said all AZ state and local police should obey federal law. And, as a greencard holder myself, the law is clear: As a non-citizen, I must carry proof of visa status or greencard status at all times.
The problem lies with the negative: What if a law officer asks a citizen to show proof of immigration status and he can't because he's really a citizen and is not required to carry papers? What if a law officer asks a non-citizen to show papers and that person actually simply says he's really a citizen? Can you then be detained?
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Sun April 11th, 2010, 9:56: People
Today I read jwz's post linking to an article that claims "Of all the people in human history who ever reached the age of 65, half are alive now."
That reminded me of a question I've had for a while: "How many people have every lived on Earth", so I finally googled it. Of course, first you have to define "what is a human", so I put the marker at around 10,000 years ago. I found that in 8,000 B.C., scientist project there were about 5 million people on Earth, about 300 million in 1 A.D. and about 2.5 billion in 1950. Then it shot up over the past 50 years to the current 6 billion.
When you do that math, it turns out about 100 billion people were ever born, with about 6 billion alive right now. That's 6% of all people who have walked the earth are alive right now, and 10% of the people who live in the past 10,000 years have been born in the last 100 years.
Ref: pbr.org
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Wed April 7th, 2010, 14:09: Annoyances
Two things:
1. My parents decided to try the Capital Metro red line to go downtown today. But the Southbound trains don't run after 8am, except for 1 trip at 5:30p. Ref http://www.capmetro.org/MetroRail/schedules.asp
2. Why can I not dial a number (or even cut&paste the number) from an iPhone calendar item. Isn't that the most logical thing to do, to dial the conference call number directly from the invite/cal item??
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Thu March 25th, 2010, 22:17: Lucas
I'm sure that --even while I haven't posted to this blog yet-- everybody knows that I'm now a daddy! Lucas is already 6 weeks old, and just in case you hadn't seen it, his website is at http://lucasjanssen.net/. Is has an RSS feed so no excuse to keep up with us!!
I just uploaded 3 new videos and a whole bunch of new pictures, so check it out!
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I found the source of that funky dryer smell that's been plaguing us for a while now. Watch and phear:
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Eight days ago:
Today:
More pictures than you can handle here.
Papa, dankjewel!
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Tue September 29th, 2009, 12:38: Pay phone
I saw someone use a pay phone today!
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From the NYT:
"President Obama will this week sign into law a provision allowing visitors to national parks and refuges to carry loaded and concealed weapons."
It seems that this provision is added to the "Credit Card Accountability, Responsibility and Disclosure Act" ("the Credit CARD Act", yes someone spent waaay to much time on this title). So in the end I guess I can agree with everything in this bill: Credit companies cannot jack up my rates and law-abiding citizens can carry a gun in a national park.
But that's not the reason I'm posting this.
Why is it allowed under Congress rules or US law to tack on completely unrelated riders to bills? Now Democrats who are in favor of gun control cannot vote this down because it would mean they have to vote against the credit card bill as well. And this happens all the time, especially with military appropriations bills, I understand.
This doesn't make any sense to me at all...
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Wed April 22nd, 2009, 15:22: Music taste
Just signed up for Pandora Internet Radio. I've never seen my favorite music explained and disected this well! Please keep bringing me "trance roots" with "laid back female vocals" please! I'm excited, and I need to read up on the Music Genome Project some more.
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Yes, that's hail. There's more pictures, including my broken windshield. I didn't get pictures of the baseball (3" / 7cm) hail that hit the car, I was too busy making sure I got safely off the roadway
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