WHAT A LAMP

Just login the admin, then Tools > Upgrade > Automatically

Less than 15 seconds. It is finished.

Don’t wait, just login and click it to protect your WordPress.

phplist has a very important security update.

phpBB’s official site is hacked because of this issue for weeks.

To upgrade phplist is simple.

1. BACKUP your database!
2. BACKUP your old config.php file, or optionally backup your whole PHPlist so you can rollback if something would go wrong.
3. Replace your old PHPlist with the new version.
4. Copy your configuration files to lists/config or re-edit the new config file.
5. Go to http://yourdomain/lists/admin/∞ and choose the Upgrade link in the System Functions section.
6. Click the link in this page.

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Upgrade to WordPress 2.7 is easy.

The dashboard is totally different. It takes time to get familiar with it.

Anyway, it is a big version and big change from the back end.

PS. new version Simple Tag plugin works OK on WP 2.7

Now-a-days writing a blog has become very popular. Almost all the websites have a blog attached to their site. Blog hosting offers excellent web hosting power. It includes some of the most important features that are important for designing and developing a website and giving it a professional look. There are some very important tips that you need to keep in mind while choosing blog hosting.

Make Use Of Linux Web Hosting Service For Better Results

Linux is the best operation system that you can have for a WordPress blog hosting. It is extremely reliable, very fast, and also very cheap compared to any other blog hosting service. If you are using Windows operating system for your blog hosting, its features and applications can become very costly to you when compared to blog hosting with Linux operating system.

Look For Uptime Guarantee

You need to find a web hosting service which offers at least 99.9% uptime guarantee. It would definitely be worthwhile to find a blog hosting service that can give you at least 99.9% uptime guarantee. A reliable blog hosting service is very essential if you want to succeed in your online business and to generate continuous revenue.

Use WordPress For Your Blog

Installing the WordPress is easy using the blog hosting service. You just have to install the WordPress scripts, follow the guide-lines, and then set up your blog on your own. There are even some web hosting companies that have this installation of the WordPress scripts included in their control panel. This saves your time and more efforts because you will not have to install the scripts by first downloading from the WordPress site, then uploading through the FTP program, and then installing it on your blog.

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30 minutes to update Ubuntu 8.04LTS.

1.5 hours to upgrade Ubuntu from 8.04LTS to 8.10.

All done yesterday night.

The next version Ubuntu, v8.10 will be release tomorrow, Oct. 30 2008.

If you are using 8.04 (Hardy) then you can update directly to 8.10 (Intrepid). In other cases you should follow a sequential upgrade path and not skip any of the releases (unless you are on a LTS release).

• “Backup important files”. Although the upgrades preserve your data and settings, it’s always wise to backup at least your home directory in case Murphy’s law comes into play.
  • This includes copying (or tar-ring) the desired files to an external drive or a server some place safe. If you plan to do incremental backups in future as well then use something like rsync to help you out. (Backup Tutorial)
• Make sure your system is up to date.  This means that you should have applied all the available updates for your present version of Ubuntu (these updates are different from the actual upgrade. So be careful you don’t skip this step).
• Read the Release Notes to find out if there are some issues and possible workarounds and to know what’s the new release all about.
• Upgrade by running the Update Manager (Note that before 30th October you will have to run ‘update-manager –devel-release’ to let it know you want to install the developmental release)

So, it is not that hard. You only need a little bit caution before upgrading.

Are you ready? Do upgrade tonight.

This blog is upgraded to 2.6.3 last week manually.

Nothing changes. Only for security issue.

Table Sorter is a very handy plugin of jQuery. It release 2.0.3.

I use it in many web-based programs.  Let’s have a look on the features.

tablesorter is a jQuery plugin for turning a standard HTML table with THEAD and TBODY tags into a sortable table without page refreshes. tablesorter can successfully parse and sort many types of data including linked data in a cell. It has many useful features including:

• Multi-column sorting
• Parsers for sorting text, URIs, integers, currency, floats, IP addresses, dates (ISO, long and short formats), time.
• Support for ROWSPAN and COLSPAN on TH elements
• Support secondary “hidden” sorting (e.g., maintain alphabetical sort when sorting on other criteria)
• Extensibility via widget system
• Cross-browser: IE 6.0+, FF 2+, Safari 2.0+, Opera 9.0+
• Small code size

So I don’t need to implement SQL based data sorting or php based sorting. I use jQuery tablesorter 2.0.3 to sort data in table without coding.

The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the beta release of Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop and Server. Codenamed “Intrepid Ibex”, 8.10 continues Ubuntu’s proud tradition of integrating the latest and greatest open source technologies into a high-quality, easy-to-use Linux distribution.

Ubuntu 8.10 Desktop Edition delivers the features you need for an increasingly mobile digital life, including 3G wireless support and guest sessions that lets users temporarily share computers without compromising security.

Ubuntu 8.10 Server consolidates its support for virtualization with an integrated Virtual Machine builder, and brings with it a fully-supported Java stack and support for per-user directory encryption.

To download beta version, click here.

Ubuntu 8.10 will be released on October 30th, 2008.

Do you wait for it? I am.

Some people said Ubuntu is not good enough and it is a bad guy of Linux world. It is harmful to the other Linux distributions.

I agreed with them in one point only. It is not good when you find the computer failed to boot after upgrading.