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Monthly Archives: January 2010

Auto update CentOS server with yum

It is better to use yum-updatesd to do the updates, check the HOW-TO at http://webhostingneeds.com/Get_email_notification_when_updates_available_yum in /etc/yum/yum-updatesd.conf Set do_update = yes


fipscheck conflicts with fipscheck-lib-1.2.0-1.el5.x86_64

When i run yum update i get error [root@server12 ~]# yum update ….. ….. some text removed ….. ERROR with rpm_check_debug vs depsolve: fipscheck conflicts with fipscheck-lib-1.2.0-1.el5.x86_64 Complete! (1, [‘Please report this error in bugzilla’]) [root@server12 ~]# This is caused


Google Chrome Now Available for Linux

Today i installed Google Chrome on Ubuntu. It works great, now i have Opera, Firefox and Google Chrome on Ubuntu desktop. Great work Google for supporting Linux.


What Facebook Is For

Funny video explains use of facebook


PROFMediaPlayer

Found Open Source Flash player using adobe osmf at http://blog.nicolasprof.com/profmediaplayer Making FLV players with osmf is easy with video tutorial by R Blank http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/video_osmf.html But making a UI is difficult task for many flash newbies. I was thinking that adobe


XPGnome – Make Ubuntu look like Windows XP

XPGnome theme can make ubuntu look like Microsoft Windows XP.