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Blogging and Pyramid Schemes

Have you ever had one of these dreaded pyramid schemes thrown at you and all that is going through your head is ‘What excuse can I use?’ and ‘I wish I had a gun right now’.

Well I had one today at my parents house from one of there friends. I was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and I tried every excuse I could try to get out of it. Sadly my mother didn’t get the hints that I wanted to escape. [ad#posts]

So during this long presentation, these two questions stuck with me,

  • Why work for yourself when others can work for you?
  • Do you like working for little to no return?

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Howto: Install New Yum Repositories in Fedora/Redhat

Please note the below also works for Centos.Redhat Logo

There are a acouple of ways of adding repositories in Fedora/Red Hat. All repositories are stored in the /etc/yum.repos.d directory in Fedora/Redhat.
For well known repositories it is best and more simpler to install a .rpm package to add the repositories to your system. Such as below, which will add the livna-release repositories to your system. You would substitute the URL with one you have found on the internet.

rpm -Uvh http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/rpm.livna.org/livna-release.rpm[ad#insideposts]

For repositories that need to be installed manually it is a little bit different we have to create a Read More »Howto: Install New Yum Repositories in Fedora/Redhat