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In place upgrade from RHEL 5.x to RHEL 6.x

Posted 08-17-2012 at 02:25 AM by iamswift
Updated 10-11-2012 at 01:02 AM by iamswift

Inplace upgrade from RHEL 5.x to RHEL 6.x

Recently I contacted RH for in-place upgrade from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 and got the standard reply from RH that this kind of upgrade is not supported.
I pressed for any document that gives steps carried out when the “upgradeall” option is selected while upgrading from RHEL 5 to RHEL 6 but got the same reply, saying in-place upgrade is not supported across major releases.
Below is the list of steps I followed to get in-place upgrade...

iamswift

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Posted in Technical

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Headless file conversion using LibreOffice as a service

Posted 02-12-2013 at 10:16 PM by sag47
Updated 02-12-2013 at 10:38 PM by sag47

The content outlined here also works for OpenOffice. This post was inspired by a question I was answering on the forums.

System Setup
I installed LibreOffice packages using a PPA in Kubuntu. Here is information about my environment.

Code:

Tue Feb 12 23:00:54 EST 2013
Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS
Linux 3.2.0-37-generic x86_64 GNU/Linux
GNU bash, version 4.2.24(1)-release (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu)
LibreOffice 3.5 (Version: 1:3.5.4-0ubuntu1.1)
unoconv 0.4

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sag47

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How to catch an elephant in Africa?

Posted 03-07-2013 at 06:27 AM by Aquarius_Girl
Updated 03-08-2013 at 02:58 AM by Aquarius_Girl

A technicians joke worth sharing...of course in my personal opinion

Quote:

How to catch an elephant in the Africa

MATHEMATICIANS hunt elephants by going to Africa, throwing out everything that is not an elephant, and catching one of whatever is left.

EXPERIENCED MATHEMATICIANS will attempt to prove the existence of at least one unique elephant before proceeding to step 1 as a subordinate exercise.

PROFESSORS OF MATHEMATICS will prove the existence of

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Aquarius_Girl

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Posted in Personal Ramblings

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Asus EEE-PC X101CH

Posted 04-18-2013 at 04:40 AM by markyd
Updated 12-03-2013 at 05:47 AM by markyd

Friday 6th September 2013

First of all I must thank the lovely wife Emma who hit the "Google Jackpot" with this one, as anyone with the patience to read the rest of this blog below will know I was "most peeved" with ASUS and their X101CH. I wish I had all the Google articles to support this post but I did not make notes sorry but here is a summary as I see it. It appears that Intel "outsourced" the drivers for the Cedar Trail chipset and they are only...

markyd

LQ Newbie

Posted in Hardware, ASUS X101CH

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How-To: Encrypt a USB key with cryptsetup

Posted 05-26-2013 at 03:26 AM by gegechris99
Updated 10-01-2015 at 02:22 PM by gegechris99 (Typo error)

Tags cryptsetup, encryption

Recently the laptop of one of my friends was stolen. She was worried not by the loss of the laptop but by the fact that it contained scanned copies of identification documents (driver's license, identity card, passport).

This rang a bell in my head. I promised myself to encrypt my laptop on the next release of Slacwkare 14.1 which I hope will come soon which means when it's ready

In the meantime, I'm using a USB key as a target destination for my backup script using...

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