Shinjiru will be moving my shared hosting account to a new server tomorrow. The move is scheduled for 9pm (GMT +8) 8th May 2008.
Since my DNS records will also need to be updated, The Danesh Project will be down till the updated DNS entries propagate to all DNS servers on the net. This will take up to 72 hours.
I was playing a round with new software today which needed MySQL 5. My server’s running CentOS 4.6 which ships by default with MySQL 4.
The to upgrade to MySQL 5 from MySQL 4 is easy. There are 2 options you could use.
The first option would require you to remove all MySQL 4 packages by running,
># yum remove mysql
The seconf option is way simpler.
># yum --enablerepo=centosplus update mysql
This will download MySQL 5 from the plus repository and replace the installed MySQL 4.
Remeber to backup your DBs before updating.
Like everything else with Astro, it did not work they way they said it would.
Received my new Astro gold smart card in the mail today. Came home and decided to start the upgrade.
The attached manual stated that when the new card was switched out with the old card while viewing a program a dialog box would pop up notifying me of the upgrade. That didn’t quite happen.
Falling back to the normal update process I decided to leave my Astro in standby mode for 30 mins. No progress too.
Frustrated I called Astro’s customer care at 1300 82 3838. I was put on hold for 30mins and the damn line dropped. I called in again and had to hold for another 30mins before I got an agent.
I explained to her and the fix she provided was simple.
1. Slot your old smart card back in and reboot Astro.
2. Go to channel 880. You’ll see upgrade instructions asking you to insert the new gold card. Take out the old smart card and slide in the new one. Remember to follow the white arrow on the card. Press OK.
3. You’ll get a new notice saying “upgrade will take 10 minutes and your Astro will go to standby”. Press OK and your Astro should go to standby mode.
4. Keep your eye on the Astro decoder now. You’ll see the upgrade status scrolling with the completed percentage. When at 100% your decoder with reset and the display will show the current time. The upgrade is now complete.
Well, it wasn’t that hard, but what gets to me is Astro’s customer service. You can never get hold of them when you really need them. Thankfully the agent who attended to me today was polite and really helpfull.
Finally managed to upgrade to WordPress 2.5 yesterday.
Loving the automatic update and install feature for my plugins. However, the Popularity Contest plugin and Popularity Contest Widget are not compatible with WordPress 2.5 yet.
Wait no longer, WordPress 2.5 is out!!
The shiny new WordPress has gone through a major overhaul with tones of new features where mostly all new features were requested by the WordPress community.
New dashboard, enhanced tag support, updated WYSIWYG editor, better search better encryption for passwords and cookies, built in galleries, one-click plugin upgrades and support for multiple uploads. Full feature list
I’ve been playing the RC for the past week and I’m loving it. It’s going to be sometime before my plugins are fully supported but ya, this is one WordPress release you should not miss.
Source: WordPress Dev Blog
