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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)

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 !

Jon Stewart tonight:Is he right?

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.

I kept my word from last week! Backyard work has started. Follow the progress here.

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!

Not even close, HEB. Not even close...

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:

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.

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.