December 2008
2 posts
Inspiring Woman Computer Science Pioneer
Google has a great blog post and YouTube video about Jean Bartik a true pioneer in the field of Computer Science. I hadn’t heard of Jean before today, but this video interview of her being inducted into the Computer History Museum is great, truly inspirational. For those that know me, you’d agree that I don’t use happy, warm, fuzzy terms like inspirational,well, ever. ...
Yum bug in RH5.2
I’m still banging on hosting my first yum repository, so I’m by no means as knowledgeable with how it stores metadata, etc as I am with apt-get. But, I ran into an issue where I couldn’t get yum to recognize my packages right after adding them to the repository. It turns out that yum caches metadata for some time period, an hour or so, which is abysmally long when you’re...