If you still need CentOS 4 and your yum is currently broken due to end-of-life, here’s the fix: Edit /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo, comment out the mirrorlist parameters and add a baseurl=http://vault.centos.org/4.9/os/$basearch parameter for each enabled section. Here’s the official instructions: Using Vault Repositories
Author: Shovas
Is Christmas a Pagan holiday?
Many people often ask if a given holiday, traditionally Christian, are actually originally from Pagan holidays. Christmas is one of those. If you’re wondering and carry some uneasy feelings, put your mind to rest. Take heart with an answer from the book The Bible has the Answer. It’s a great book on all kinds of…
Powerful Last Words
I finished the reading the Book of John today and my next chapter in the Book of Psalms was Psalm 22, a Psalm of David, to the tune of “Doe of Morning.” I didn’t plan it but I was instantly piqued by Jesus words on the cross, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken…
The Demise of NewsX.org
Update 2015-08-15: Good news, everyone! NewsX.org is (sort of) back! Check out the 3.0 beta at beta.newsx.org. I’ve been refactoring the code quite a bit and generalizing the headline provider code to enable multiple sources in any format I care to write the code to parse :/ It might be a little rough around the…
CentOS 5 soft-raid1 mbr got wiped? You’re in luck!
I don’t know what happened but my CentOS 5 machine wouldn’t boot off the drive when I started it up today. I booted into the install CD’s rescue mode and followed these instructions. Remember to do it for both physical drives making up your raid1. That’s what made the fix work for me.
#stopkony
Update: While this is a laudable cause, things are more complicated than they at first appear, not least of which is the current state of Uganda is six years out of date and Joseph Kony is no longer actually in Uganda. So, you want to #stopkony? First thing you can do is let your government…
Put me in, coach
Richard Wurmbrand and wife Sabina are an inspiring pair who left their mark on Christian history and founded The Voice of the Martyrs, “a non-profit, inter-denominational Christian organization dedicated to assisting the persecuted church worldwide.” Richard Wurmbrand was born the youngest of four boys in a Jewish family on March 24, 1909, in Bucharest, Romania….
Verse for this February twenty-ninth
Fourteen days have passed since the day that never was, and I find myself here, in this unwanted moment, this day that never belonged, this February twenty-ninth. I was running that day, full strength and head strong, hurtling towards the precipice, adrenaline fueled, fight or flight blinded, heart pumping, right off the edge where I…
Standing for Stephen
Heard this while listening to a James MacDonald sermon today, “Big God, Small Me,” on the account of Paul (formerly Saul) watching over the stoning of Stephen, “You stiff-necked people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You are just like your fathers: You always resist the Holy Spirit! Was there ever a prophet your fathers did…
Illegitimate Conservative Government?
Firm with Tory links traced to election day ‘robocalls’ that tried to discourage voters: Elections Canada has traced fraudulent phone calls made during the federal election to an Edmonton voice-broadcast company that worked for the Conservative Party across the country. While the agency investigates, aided by the RCMP, the Conservatives are conducting an internal probe….