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I recently had major issues with my Macbook Pro. The keyboard & trackpad better known as the “topcase” became non-responsive. To resolve my issue, I took the Macbook Pro over to Tekserve on Saturday. Since my Macbook Pro was covered under the standard one-year warranty, the replacement of the topcase was complimentary.

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I recently decided to move from Blojsom to WordPress because of the following:

1. Availability of plugins
2. Availability of themes
3. Ease of use
4. Syntax Highlighting
5. Comments
6. SPAM

In Blojsom, I could not find a way to show some simple code like…

#!/usr/bin/perl
@users = ('john','frank');
foreach (@users) {
print $_ . "\n";
}

It’s going to take me some time to import the blog entries from blojsom into wordpress.

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Cisco IOS utilizes the syslog service to send messages about the Cisco device.

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If you want change your uid on Mac OS X, you can't just modify the local /etc/passwd file like you would on a Linux or Solaris box.

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If you installed RHEL5 and you no longer have a subscription for Red Hat Support. You can use the CentOS repos to keep your software up to date. To make a long story shorter here, CentOS removes any Red Hat branding and artwork. For more information about CentOS, visit http://www.centos.org

Now, let’s get your box setup to use the CentOS repos.

First things first, import the key.

rpm --import http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5 yum list

Now create a file called /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS.repo. Include the following in the CentOS.repo file.

[base] name=CentOS-5 - Base mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=os #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates [updates] name=CentOS-5 - Updates mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=updates#baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released[addons] name=CentOS-5 - Addons mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=addons #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful [extras] name=CentOS-5 - Extras mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=extras #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that extend functionality of existing packages [centosplus] name=CentOS-5 - Plus mirrorlist=http://mirrorlist.centos.org/?release=5&arch=$basearch&repo=plus #baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/centosplus/$basearch/ gpgcheck=1 enabled=0 gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

Now, you can run `yum update` to update the rpms on your RHEL5 box using the CentOS repos.