Some may complain about the way Apple does things, but I recently had an experience with iTunes Music Store (iTMS) customer support that was incredible. I have to say that I’m even more of a fan boy of the iTMS than I was before.
Good grief. Seriously, is it just me? Is the whole Internet crashing? Google, YouTube and Facebook in the last week.
Dunno why but Google is just crawling today. Searches take a very long time to return, if at all. Sometimes only half the page loads, too.
Updated 2009-05-14 @ 2:41:15 pm: Yep, according to cnet, widespread outage.
Updated 2009-05-14 @ 10:02:40 pm: It’s really nice when a company owns up to their mistakes.
I recently had to upgrade an Ubuntu server to the latest version of PHP (at the time, 5.2.8) … the problem was the server was running Ubuntu 8.04 and the latest version of PHP available through the normal update channels is 5.2.4. The server is running 8.04 because that is the “long term support” version of Ubuntu.
Thanks to Tom Liu and launchpad.net, there is a binary build of PHP 5.2.8 for this version of Ubuntu. I know that real Linux studs would just compile their own, but I didn’t want to go through the build and fail, build and fail process and needed a quick fix. Here are the steps I followed to update my Hardy Heron to PHP 5.2.8.
A promotional video was just released by thisisnext.org for their upcoming conference and it is beautiful. Go watch it and be moved.
