The Exxon Valdez oil spill occurred in the Prince William Sound, Alaska, on March 24, 1989. It is considered one of the most devastating human-caused environmental disasters ever to occur at sea. As significant as the Valdez (pronounced /VALDEZ/) spill was, it ranks well down on the list of the world’s largest oil spills in terms of volume released.[1] However, Prince William Sound’s remote location (accessible only by helicopter and boat) made government and industry response efforts   Read More ...

This case applies to most Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, from i386 to i686 machines, i’ve successfully used it on our Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES release 4 (Nahant Update 6): To use it for other systems / architectures, check the packages given at (check). 1. Get the main packages (check) http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/ $wget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/yum/yum-2.4.2-0.4.el4.rf.noarch.rpm (check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/ search.php?query=libsqlite.so.0&submit=Search+…&system=&arch= $wget ftp://fr2.rpmfind.net/linux/PLD/dists/ac/ready/i386/libsqlite-2.8.15-1.i386.rpm (check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/ search.php?query=python-elementtree&submit=Search+…&system=&arch= $wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/python-elementtree-1.2.6-7.el4.rf.i386.rpm (check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/ search.php?query=python-sqlite&submit=Search+…&system=&arch= $wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/i386/dag/RPMS/python-sqlite-0.5.0-1.2.el4.rf.i386.rpm (check) http://rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/ search.php?query=urlgrabber&submit=Search+…&system=&arch= $wget ftp://rpmfind.net/linux/dag/redhat/el4/en/x86_64/dag/RPMS/python-urlgrabber-2.9.7-1.2.el4.rf.noarch.rpm 2.   Read More ...