James McDonald

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How I got into IT

As a teenager I had no interest in computers. I was interested in how things worked. So when I finished year 10 at Moss Vale High School my mother said "If you're not going to go back to do year 11 and 12 you have to get an apprenticeship". So I got an apprenticeship...

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Stopping Yum Updating Certain Packages

I recently downloaded and installed OpenOffice.org's 2.2.1 The next upgrade YUM wanted to do was going to downgrade it back to 2.2.0-14. etc. To stop YUM doing this I added the following into the '[main]' section of /etc/yum.conf exclude=openoffice.org* Information is...

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Things to do in Telarah

Train-spotting Or more precisely Coal Train Spotting. You can make note of the engine numbers and count the coal carriages. I spent a thrilling 20 minutes one day counting 80 carriages. Only problem is I don't have an Anorak

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