I was introduced to Amy’s Ghost by a friend (@timblair) as he knows Amy (lead singer). Since seeing them once live at Global in Reading I’ve really enjoyed their music. They played at Reading and Leeds this weekend and the highlights are online at BBC Introducing. If you like it go buy the album from Amazon.

Not a particularly exciting first post back after so long with nothing but hopefully it’s useful none the less. On a CentOS box you can’t get MySQL 5.1 or PHP 5.3 easily from yum. Luckily a chap known as remi as a handy repo that contains both said packages.

To get the repo running you’ll need to install a couple of RPM’s:

epel-release-5-4.noarch.rpm
remi-release-5.rpm

To install them:

rpm -Uvh epel-release-5*.rpm remi-release-5*.rpm

After that jump into /etc/yum.repos.d where you should now have a remi.repo file. Edit that and change enabled=0 to enabled=1 and you’re good to go. Do a yum check-updates and install away.

Amusing song on about the iPhone antennagate from a guy who sings videos. It’s quite amusing.