novatech @ pengganas

orait, got centos 5 vps/dedicated that don’t have yum installed?? enough doing googling but yet not find any WORKING solution?? (i hope so… haha)

actually last night my friend ask me to configure his centos vps which is dont have yum (i know, i’m noob and i cant work centos out without YUM)

so, here is the quick way to install YUM-my package manager in less then 10 minutes

download all this shit rpms into one folder name “yummy”

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-5.x86_64.rpm

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-sqlite-1.1.7-1.2.1.x86_64.rpm

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/python-urlgrabber-3.1.0-2.noarch.rpm

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/rpm-python-4.4.2-47.el5.x86_64.rpm

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-3.0.5-1.el5.centos.5.noarch.rpm

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/yum-metadata-parser-1.0-8.fc6.x86_64.rpm

wget http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/x86_64/CentOS/sqlite-3.3.6-2.x86_64.rpm

(my friend server is 64bit, if your server is 32bit, just replace x86_64 with i386

example: http://mirror.centos.org/centos/5/os/i386/CentOS/m2crypto-0.16-6.el5.1.i386.rpm

good, now we are going to install all those rpms

rpm -Uvh *.rpm

if this not working, just install those rpms one by one.

wallah, now it’s done. you can type yum now!

note: if you got this error Could not find any working storages.

try this magic command line

rpm -Uvh --replacepkgs sqlite-3.3.6-2.x86_64.rpm

can someone give one solid reason why the hell we need any antivirus software for linux ????

what’s with your super duper reason of using linux — “it got no bloody virus to screw your desktop up”

i’m wondering why you developer people so busy porting useless windows app for linux. why dont you port any games or interesting thing from windows… (AV is not interesting app!)
try porting some cool games (like cabal online for now).. that would be tremendously great

one more thing, why the hell you linux user use crappy firewall apps for you desktop??? (some even install multiple of version of them) for god sake, i’m telling you that you wont need that. you just wasting your computer memory??

1. there’s no virus to steal and send your information through internet.
2. nobody want to hack your desktop/laptop. there’s nothing in there except you have nasty 3gp (with you as the main actor).
3. still scared and fobia of h4×00r (like k10 society) ?? just type this in your magic command
iptables -t filter -P INPUT DROP
4. still scare????? unplug your cable/turn of wifi radio.. boot into windows, play some games.

you’re blaming linux for being slow.. but it’s you who use linux like windows (windows need a bunch of optimzer and AV’s tooo! while linux don’t!)

so, please apt-get remove this-nonsense-packages-for-the-love-linux
oh ya.. dont forget the –purge option too!

ok?? orait.. enough ranting

now take a look at my lucky spammer no 7777 winner. i wont delete the comment and to the owner to that shitty spam organization, please claim your hamper at http://thatsnotsexy.com/ tq

1) most will answer, well it’s cool and got no virus

2) some will say, man.. windows suck!! (oo yea? which part?)

3) some some will say, l33t h4×0r us3 1t!! 1 w4nt t0 b3 4 h4×0r t00 (come on, get a life)

4) small number of poeples will say, i want to learn it so i must used it.

well everybody got their own reason, but i really like reason no 4 because that is my main reason i used ubuntu since breezy.

to be honest, we will never know or learn something till you try it yourself. with linux, there is so much fun! i can write script to automate my laptop for certain event. it’s like i’m fully controlling my own laptop. on the other hand, i know better how my system work from low level. the best thing is that i can tweak almost every part of it and if it’s broken, live CD can be a life-saver . re-format is going to be the last resort!

from my experience of using ubuntu, i only re-format it once when my gutsy totally messed up after first attempt upgrading to hardy. some say i’m stupid because using unstable version instead of stable one.. but guess what, no matter how buggy it is, there always will be peoples to help you fix it. you i’ll never learn anything till you fix it yourself right? as long as there is internet, any type of bug or problem is fine to me now :)

so, does this make me a linux expert? naah.. there’s still many things to learn and so much to try. i’m just a newbie that ready to do it!

and.. what about you? why do you use linux?

today i got a lots of assignment that require me to use software like maple, ps-pice and matlab. all this softwares are available in windows. what about ubuntu or other linux distro??

since i’m currently on my record attemp to make a one month uptime with my ubuntu so don’t want to reboot into windows. there must be a program/software that can be use in linux for my assignments.

so, after googling for while i found this wiki-page about tools that can be used for my engineering project. if you are an ubuntu user, check it this out

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience

look like i can forget windows after this…can i???