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So i upgraded to 3.1.3 from 4.0…

After a week of annoyances, sluggish performance and bugs i found, got informed of, a solution for the issue. To re-install iPhone OS 3.1.3 instead of 4.0.
Downgrading IS in fact possible and it is happily syncing my music as of this writing.

Using this handy post i was able to put 3.1.3 on my iPhone once more. And supposedly work on a more stable, fast and better OS than Apple promised 4.0 would be.

What will i miss in 3.1.3 that IOS4 has? I can’t think of a single feature. Since i have an iPhone 3G all the good stuff didn’t work anyway so blah!

How upgradable is your pc? Compared to a mac…

In my experience, a computer is as good as it is put together. In other words. A mishmash of parts put together to form a pc if done wrong is a horrible pc. Even if you got the best quality parts. If they don’t play nice with each other it’s just shit and misery.

A mate of me keeps telling me to get a pc. Even though he never even tried a mac, he seems fixated on the idea that PC’s are infinitely better because they’re “upgradeable” and are “not limited”. In his words:

Its an extremely limited and expensive pc!

Perhaps. There is not much to upgrade to the hardware. Where-as a PC you supposedly can upgrade all you want.

But then my point of view. By the time you *need* to upgrade something in your PC. All you can really do is expand the ram and perhaps add a new video card. If you want a new CPU, you’re often stuck on some outdated socket. Which is not desirable, if at all still available. So you need a new mainboard as wel. But then you probably run into a slot issue with your ram, so you need new ram, too. Making it a much more expensive upgrade. Not to mention lots of issues with your Windows license in terms of validating and re-activating. So really, is a PC a better upgradable computer? I think it’s not.

By the time your mac *really* needs upgrading it will probably either be 3 to 4 years old. And you will buy a new one. Migrate your software and done. Easy peasy. Whereas for a PC you need to check if your new parts are compatible, put it together, hope it works. It probably will. Then mess with more drivers and updates than you can shake a stick at. In that process it’s very likely that you run into issues with conflicting or crappy drivers for days before it works a 100%. Not to mention trying to keep windows alive during that mess.

And that’s just my experience with upgrading PC’s over the past 10 or so years. Every time i wanted something new i had to buy a new PC, except when it was just the videocard or harddisk. I’m sure with Windows 7 it got a lot easier. I use Windows 7 and can tell it made big advances in hardware management. Still, it remains windows… And comparing my windows ease of use on a mac compared to a PC. The mac side of the story is much prettier.

So, seriously, how upgradable and unlimited is a PC? And do you need it? Really?

I’ll take 64 bits now…

Yes, that’s right… Now that i’ve got Snow Leopard. Every developer has every reason to upgrade his software to the new 64 bit architecture… I’ll be waiting for it.

That means you, makers of Adium, Colloquy, Coda, MAMP, Sequel Pro, Handbrake, MacFUSE, Eve Online, Alarm Clock, Vienna, Paintbrush, Poedit, Sidenote, SuperDuper! and many more!

You know you want it… I know i want it…

1, 2, 3 GO!

A boring brown envelope!

Hell yea! Snow Leopard is here… It’s the DVD from the Up-to-date program that came with my new MacBook Pro. But currently it’s installing on my iMac. So i guess the “eligible for update” is a fake unlike the check on Leopard. Leopard indeed checked your serial number or something to see if an upgrade DVD would work for you. Snow Leopard apparently doesn’t. Or not as strict.

It’s installing now, the re-installer as others have noted is very different. I’m curious if this thing will allow me to do a clean install. But for eagerness sake i went with the upgrade for my iMac. Which you start from the desktop. I guess Snow Leopard just strips out the PPC code all over the place and upgrades system bits where required. Or something along those lines. No reboot was required so everything was still active.

We’ll see how it turns out!

Upgrade to PHP5 please!

By now everyone should be aware that PHP 5 is readily available for everyone.
Php 5.2.9 has been released last month. And the very first version of PHP 5 was available somewhere in 2004. That’s 5 years ago. It’s about time you update if you haven’t already. PHP 4 was discontinued on January 3, 2008. So if you’re still on PHP 4 you’re a year behind in software.

I write this post, because i do not use PHP 4 anymore. I haven’t for some time. And i don’t keep track of which functions work for PHP 4 or PHP 5. Lately i see quite often that my plugins do not work correctly on PHP 4. And people complain. Logically. But it’s your *own* fault, really. However, i do realize that many of you do not know what version you have. You can check it on your administration panel your webhost offers, probably somewhere at the server information or apache signature. If you’re still on PHP 4, ask them to enable/install/upgrade to PHP 5. If they refuse, well, change webhosts as soon as you can. You should not be denied the latest technology or the use of my plugins .

Keep in mind, some companies/individuals still believe that PHP 5 is not ready. That it has some compatibility issues with older PHP scripts and that it just *isn’t as good* as PHP 4. As for compatibility, don’t worry about WordPress. If you have scripts that do not work on PHP 5, update them. PHP 3 etc is very old fashioned anyway… Even worse than PHP 4. PHP 5 not being ready? Another “myth”. If it wasn’t ready, it wouldn’t be released. Or as a beta at best. This is not the case. Of course in the end it depends on what you do, what your point of view is, too. But let me assure you that i never had any issues switching from PHP 4 to 5. Everything works, stable, reliable and best of all. All the new stuff works too! And PHP 4, well old things stay behind… And, in cases like this, are best left behind.

Get the latest and greatest of PHP here: http://www.php.net/downloads.php
Some pointers on upgrading PHP 4 to PHP 5: http://www.php.net/manual/en/faq.migration5.php

On another note; the lot of you probably cannot upgrade PHP by yourselves. If you’re on a hosting service in most cases you need your webhost to do it for you or use their software/admin panels! Wrong installations can and will harm your server. Read the manuals and look up tutorials if you do not know how to do it.

I cannot, and will not, help you upgrade PHP (or any part of your server for that matter), your administrator or webhost can and should. If you’re an admin yourself, you should be capable of doing it yourself. If you cannot, don’t pretend to be a server administrator.