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Installing virtualbox guest additions on Centos 7 minimal image

I've just spent some time setting up a bare Centos 7 image to support development stripping out as much as possible. While CoreOS is probably a better choice, we run redhat in production at this point and centos is a better fit for the time being. The problem I've found is that many of the instructions available via google were written against prerelease versions or espouse manually installing random rpms instead of just using yum. While I get this "works", I'm not a huge fan of this approach and would rather do everything with the package manager. After a LOT of scouring and trial and error, I finally found the "magic" combination. The winner is courtesy of http://www.pc-freak.net/ . I've taken these instructions and tweaked them slightly for my purposes. The original poster did this on a more "full fledged" version of centos with a windows host and my instructions are for a minimal install using and OSX host (though I'm certa

My (potentially bad) parenting advice

Parents of the world, I have one piece of advice that will give you a tool to help your child become happy, healthy, and productive. Give them a shovel and tell them they can do anything they want with it. Note, if you are in an urban area, this might be BAD advice, so suburban and rural people listen on, urban folks find a friend in the burbs with a yard and then follow along. A kid with a shovel is an amazing thing to watch. Kids who are impossible to pry from the WII/PS3.. who don't like soccer/football/whateever, who might otherwise be surly or withdrawn... will become captivated by the idea that they can can explore and possibly find buried treasure, fossils, rocks, and dig/play for hours. Add water to the mix and the possibilities are endless: sand castles, mud castles, mud pies, mud pits, waterfalls, ponds, you name it! Too often in our modern world, we think of parenting as an activity that requires structure, supervision, and direction. I think excessive amoun