I went to upgrade WordPress on my personal blog tonight and ran into this error:
“You cannot update because WordPress 3.2 requires PHP version 5.2.4 or higher. You are running version 5.1.6″
I thought to myself, that’s odd, as I keep all my servers updated. Well it turns out to be slightly more complicated than “yum update all”. Instructions to easily upgrade PHP to version 5.3.x on your CentOS server to allow WordPress 3.2 to install properly.
/via Daniel Howard
Categories: Tips and Tricks.
You can easily install a fresh copy of Mac OS X Lion on any machine (even sans optical drive) using these steps. (via Thomas Brand)
- Purchase and download Lion from the Mac App Store on any Lion compatible Mac running Snow Leopard.
- Right click on “Mac OS X Lion” installer and choose the option to “Show Package Contents.”
- Inside the Contents folder that appears you will find a SharedSupport folder and inside the SharedSupport folder you will find the “InstallESD.dmg.” This is the Lion boot disc image we have all been waiting for.
- Copy “InstallESD.dmg” to another folder like the Desktop.
- Launch Disk Utility and click the burn button.
- Select the copied “InstallESD.dmg” as the image to burn, insert a standard sized 4.7 GB DVD, and wait for your new Lion Boot Disc to come out toasty hot.
You can now use Disk Utility’s Restore function to image your Lion boot disc image onto an external drive or partition suitable for performing a clean install on a optical-drive-less MacBook Air, or Mac mini server. Clean installs with Lion are easy once you find where Apple has hidden the boot disk.
Categories: Apple, Tips and Tricks.
Google is right: Windows is an old, creaky, virus-ridden product that deserves to be replaced by something better. But to displace an established computing platform you need to do a lot of things right, and Google hasn’t shown the focus and coordination needed to pull it off. Unless there are dramatic changes in Google’s Chromebook plans, I think they are likely to fail.
Well said.
Categories: Random.
Pastebot – allows copy-n-paste between iOS devices and your Mac. A must have for sending strings of text back and forth between Mac and iOS
Dropbox – If you aren’t using Dropbox, you should be.
Instapaper – award-winning app to read web pages on the go, in the air, or on the toilet
Dialvetica – Quickly call, text or email someone in just two quick taps.
Camera+ – Much better camera app.
Motion X GPS Drive – hands-down my favorite GPS app
Deliveries – Great app for tracking packages.
Dragon Dictation – Perfect for texting while driving.
Pandora – Streaming music. Also try Rdio
Shazam – Just hold your phone up to the song to identify the track
1Password – Another must have app on the Mac and iOS
Tweetbot – My favorite Twitter client on iOS
Categories: Apple, Tips and Tricks.
This also absolves Apple of responsibility for the distribution of Flash Player security updates. Recall the controversy last year when Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6) shipped with a slightly older version of Flash Player, with a few known security vulnerabilities. Henceforth, Flash Player security updates for Mac OS X are Adobe’s problem, not Apple’s.
This is precisely the point of them removing it. Having Flash preinstalled means a default installation of Mac OS X could potentially be remotely exploited using nothing more than having a user visit a malicious site. I agree with this removal and I support their decision. I surf the web with Safari’s ClickToFlash extension enabled by default which prevents Flash from loading on pages unless I specifically want it to load.
Categories: Apple.