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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...
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
How do They Calculate Our Home Loan Payment Amounts?
So I had a call from my friendly Bank the other day. Which Bank? I'll let you figure that out on your own. Anyway, So they are saying `how am I liking my Home Loan etc etc' and I'm like fine, fine it's all going just peachy. Then I say however one things got me...
Getting around IE misrendering a title with forward slashes in it
On the recent posts menu I have a title: squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found. Internet Explorer 7 somehow mis interpreted the forward slashes as HTML entities and I had a gap between the previous title and the "squirrelmail /usr/games/fortune is not found."...
Telarah – The Silicon Valley of the Hunter
OK so we have the `Rutherford Industrial Estate' nearby but what about the Silicon Valley of the Hunter? I propose `Telarah Technology Park'. We could put it right near Bunnings and cater to everyone that is interested in starting a high tech business. I'm sure at...
wxWidgets & wxPerl Install Notes Fedora 7
Note: These Notes don't yet give a working F7 wxPerl environment. I am currently trying the wxperl-users mailing list to see if I can get some information on why Media.pm isn't being compiled/installed. I am having all sorts of problems trying to get the latest...