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The Idealist
Aaron Swartz wanted to save the world. Why couldn’t he save himself? -Slate On Jan. 4, 2013, Aaron Swartz woke up in an excellent mood. “He turned to me,” recalls his girlfriend Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman, “and said, apropos of nothing, ‘This is going to be a great year.’ ” On the morning of Jan. 11, one…
How to fix CentOS 4 Yum Breakage after End-of-Life
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
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.
Fixing your car key fobs with a knife, scissors, elastic, paper and super glue!
Update 2014-12-03: I have a new, better, simpler fix for this. Earlier this year the original solution I had stopped working. The problem is the electrical contacts (little circular pads for each button on the inside of the fob) were slowly disintegrating. You can tell because the black part is starting to wear through. While…