There is already an official guide on how to properly upgrade your wordpress (and it’s painless), but let me tell you how I do it. First, I determine all my changes that I made previously with the original release (hack, mod, etc) and I’m pretty sure all the changes been made hard coded, so as long as I don’t delete/replace those files, it should be okay. Most mod/hack that I made is on the theme files (*.php or *.css); so I would be very careful handling “wp-content” folder.

Next, I compare my “wp-config.php” with the new version named “wp-config-sample.php” to see if there are any changes at all. A little changes I suppose, so I just follow the new structure/format by copying my old settings to the new files and renamed the “wp-config-sample.php” into “wp-config.php” Then, I just followed the official guide. Backup database, change the name of “wp-include” and “wp-admin” by adding the suffix “_backup”, and lastly copying all the new WordPress 2.6 files over the old ones (exclude the “wp-content” folder. It seems “wp-content” only contains few files which I’m very sure I already updated those files; no harms done for not copying them over.

Then running the blog off the browser, login to admin, and database update page appeared. Just press upgrade, and a few moments later, voila…it’s done. Now, I just need to see if everything work as before. Since I use K2 theme (with external style), I encounter a few hickups but not that hard to solve. I just play some check-uncheck and save; done. Also, I notice some “image missing” error on my blog and I just realize, that some of my image didn’t exist in the “wp-include/images” folder. Luckilly, I have em’ in my old folder (wp-include_backup). On the plugins department, no appearent problem at the moment and I’m glad…Really painless.

DB Upgrade

PS: Well, it seems the upgrade do brake something. Sometime my sidebar act a little bit funny than usual. Sigh~~guess I have to wait for the next version of K2.

UPDATE: Head on to K2 official site, the update to comply with the 2.6 had been released.

Why I need it?
Let say, for example, you host your own WordPress blog and at some point, there is a new version of WordPress. It’s wise to test whether the new version compatible with your existing plugins and/or theme before you doing an upgrade. Doing it locally will save you from hassle and time wasting.

Disclaimer
Before we begin, there are a couple of things I would like to point out:

1. This guide been made mainly for those that didn’t have any experience setting up a server, but not limited to those group.
2. This guide can also benefit those who want to shift from using WAMP stack software distribution (eg: Apache2Triad, phptriad, XAMPP) to individual components installation. Just make sure you uninstall your old WAMP first (be mindful to do a backup first!!).
3. Click the picture to view it in larger resolution.
4. I don’t have a Vista machine, so I can’t say for sure these steps will work perfectly in Windows Vista. But it shouldn’t have much different though.
5. It is a guide for newbies, but still, use a common sense when needed. Folder structure and its’ naming convention mostly is my self preferences; if using your own preferences, change accordingly where it’s applied. Eg: If the guide stated that it install in L partition but you install in C, change accordingly where it’s applied.
6. This guide is only intended for setting up WAMP locally. It’s obviously not enough if you intended to configure your online server without additional steps to the guide.
7. There is an extra section that point out added information. Check em’ out for common problems, solutions, references, and suggestions.
8. Questions, comments, & suggestions are always welcomed.

Table of Content (TOC)
This is a section that contains a link to the specific sections.

• Preparation (Structure)
• Preparation (Download)
• Installing Apache
• Installing php
• Installing MySQL
• Installing phpMyAdmin
• Extra

Preparation (Structure)
I always put all the related components in one place, so it would be easy for me to make any changes later or just for the sake of keeping everything neat.

1. Start by making a new folder on the intended location (eg: I make a folder called “MyPHP” in my “L” partition).
2. In that newly created folder, create another new folder called “install” (it will be a place for all your downloaded components).
3. Create another folder called “root” (it will be a place for your web files & folders).
4. Create another folder called “Sessions“.

Done with this part; refer to screen shot below. You should have the same structure. (TOC)

Preparation (Download)
In this part, we will download all the components and put it inside the “install” folder we created earlier. The components needed are Apache Web Server, php, mysql, and phpMyAdmin.

1. Download Apache binary at apachelounge.com download section (http://www.apachelounge.com/download/). At the time of writing, the latest version was 2.2.9. (**Notes: Since the Apache binary from ApacheLounge was built with the latest Windows® Platform SDK and Visual Studio C++ 2008 a.k.a VC9, you also need to download & install the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package. Refer the readme that included in the zip files to find out the exact requirement and specifically for this build, you can download the Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package from Microsoft.com)
2. Download php windows binary zip package from php.net. At the time of writing, the latest version was 5.2.6.
   
3. Download mysql community server from mysql.com. At the time of writing, the latest version was 5.0.51b.
   
4. Download phpmyadmin from phpMyAdmin.net. Choose stable version, not release candidate. At the time of writing, the latest stable version was 2.11.7.

Done with this part; refer to screen shot below. Your “install” folder should be just like in the picture. (TOC)


Installing Apache
In this part, we will go through on the process to install Apache http server. Read more about Apache http server at apache.org.

1. Extract the httpd-2.2.9-win32-x86-ssl.zip file that had been downloaded earlier.
2. Read the readme files that come along extracted. Make sure you had fulfilled all the requirement (eg: install Visual C++ 2008 Redistributable Package if you not done it yet)
3. Rename the extracted folder “Apache2” into “Apache229“.
4. Move the newly renamed folder into the “MyPHP” folder (just up one level).
   
5. Enter the “Apache229” folder and then to “conf“. Open the “httpd.conf” files with your favorite text editor (eg: you can use notepad).
6. We are going to do some editing here. Scroll down until you found the following lines and change them accordingly:
   • ServerRoot “c:/Apache2″ change it into

     ServerRoot "L:/MyPHP/Apache229"

   • DocumentRoot “c:/Apache2/htdocs” change it into

     DocumentRoot "L:/MyPHP/root"

   • <Directory “c:/Apache2/htdocs”> change it into

     <Directory "L:/MyPHP/root">

7. Next, open command prompt (shortcut: Run>cmd). Enter the command below to change directory

   cd "L:\MyPHP\Apache229\bin"

8. Enter the next command to start apache server

   httpd.exe -k start

9. Click unblock if you get this pop-up.
   
10. Enter the command below to install apache server as service (to make Apache running when the machine start)

    httpd.exe -k install

11. Now, go back inside “Apache229” folder and then to “bin“. Double click ApacheMonitor.exe and the ApacheMonitor icon will sit next to your clock (green will indicate the server is running, while red indicate otherwise). Make a shortcut of ApacheMonitor and put it into your “startup” folder to make it start automatically everytime you boot your machine.
    
12. Put some html files into your “root” folder. Or you can just copy the text below and save it as “index.html”

    <html>
    <head>
    <title>Test Document</title>
    </head>
    <body>
    <b>It works...yehaa</b>
    </body>
    </html>

13. Open your web browser and type localhost (or if your test files use another name like test.html, type http://localhost/test.html instead). If you can see a page load with the phrase “It works…yehaa“, then the installation process is a success. If not, retrace back your step to see if you’re missing anything. (TOC)

Installing PHP
In this part, we will go through on the process to install php. Read more about php at php.net.

1. Create a folder called “php526” inside the “MyPHP” folder.
2. Go inside the “install” folder and extract php-5.2.6-Win32.zip into the newly created “php526” folder.
   
3. Now, go inside the “php526” folder and rename the file php.ini-dist to php.ini
4. Open the “php.ini” with your text editor and get ready for some editing.
   1. doc_root = change it into

      doc_root = "L:\MyPHP\root"

   2. extension_dir = “./” change it into

      extension_dir = "L:\MyPHP\php526\ext"

   3. Scroll down a little bit until you arrive at a section known as “Windows Extensions“. There are a couple of extension list here with the format “extension=name_of_extension.dll” and by default all of them is commented (they have semicolon symbol at the front). So, what you have to do here is uncomment the desired extension by deleting the semicolon symbol to enable them. Now, since we want to run the server with mysql support, the obvious extension that needs to be enable is php_mysql.dll, php_mysqli.dll and php_pdo_mysql.dll (it’s also a good idea to enable php_mbstring.dll and php_gd2.dll since phpmyadmin need it). If the needs to enable other extensions arise later, you can comeback to this section and uncomment them. Do remember to restart Apache to make any changes take effect. (How to restart Apache)
   4. ;session.save_path = “/tmp” change it into

      session.save_path = "L:\MyPHP\Sessions"

      *!!Make sure you don’t forget to delete the semicolon symbol –> ; at the front (to uncomment it)*

5. Enter the “Apache229” folder and then to “conf“. Open the “httpd.conf” files with your favorite text editor. Do some editing here:
   1. Scroll down until you encounter with the LoadModule section. Add a new line among the LoadModule lines (anywhere; at the end or beginning) as the following:

      LoadModule php5_module "L:/MyPHP/php526/php5apache2_2.dll"

      Example of my LoadModule section (snippets only; more to show where I personally put the line)

      LoadModule isapi_module modules/mod_isapi.so
      LoadModule log_config_module modules/mod_log_config.so
      LoadModule mime_module modules/mod_mime.so
      #LoadModule mime_magic_module modules/mod_mime_magic.so
      LoadModule php5_module "L:/MyPHP/php526/php5apache2_2.dll"
      #LoadModule proxy_module modules/mod_proxy.so
      #LoadModule proxy_ajp_module modules/mod_proxy_ajp.so

   2. Then, scroll down a bit more, find DirectoryIndex index.html line and change it as the following:

      DirectoryIndex index.php index.htm index.html index.html.var

   3. Now, on the same “conf” folder, open file “mime.types” with your text editor. Add the following line into it:

      application/x-httpd-php 	 		php php5

6. Next, open your System Properties (shortcut: WinFlag + Pause/Break).
7. Click the Advanced tab and click Environment Variables at lower left side. Go to the System Variables section, find the variable named “Path“, and double click it. Add the following line at the end of line on the Variable value textbox and click OK

   ;L:\MyPHP\php526

   

8. Next, click the New button on the System Variable section. Put “PHPRC” as the Variable name and the following line as the Variable value

   L:\MyPHP\php526;

   

9. We’re doing all this Environment Variables changes so that we don’t need to contaminate our System32 folder with all the necessary php’s .dll and .ini files.
10. Restart Apache to make all changes take effect.(How to restart Apache)
11. Open your favorite text editor, paste the following line and saved it as “phpinfo.php” (or whatever names that you like as long as it have the .php extension) in the “root” folder

    <?php
    phpinfo();
    ?>

12. Lastly, open your web browser and type “http://localhost/phpinfo.php” in the address bar. It should now show a page that reveal all your php and apache configuration. If it’s not, retrace your step back to see if you’re missing anything. If it still failed to show, as a last resort, you should restart your PC and test it again by opening your web browser. It should work.
    
    (TOC)

Installing MySQL
In this part, we will go through on the process to install MySQL. I must say that this is by far the easiest part of the whole setup process; you shouldn’t encounter much problem since the process is quite straight forward. Read more about MySQL at mysql.com.

1. Extract the mysql-5.0.51b-win32.zip and run the setup.exe file.
2. Welcome Screen for the installer; click Next.
   
3. Setup Type; choose Custom and click Next.
   
4. Custom Setup; since I like to group my stuffs in one place, I decided to install MySQL at “L:\MyPHP\MySQL\” (click Change to change the location). Other settings here, leave it at default and click Next.
   
5. Ready to Install the Program; click Install and wait until it finish.
6. MySQL Enterprise; click next 2 times to skip the advert.
   
7. Wizard Completed; make sure to checked the “Configure the MySQL Server Now” option and click Finish.
   
8. MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard; click Next.
   
9. Select a configuration type; choose Standard Configuration and click Next.
   
10. Set Windows Option; make sure to checked “Install As Windows Service“, “Launch the MySQL Server automatically” and “Include Bin Directory in Windows Path” option. Choose any name from the provided list for the service name and click Next.
    
11. Security options; since this is a local setup and for the purpose not to complicated things, I choose to unchecked “Modify Security Settings“. This means that my MySQl Server will have a root user with no password. You can put a password here if you like, just don’t forget em’ later.
    
12. Ready to execute; click Execute and wait for it to finish.
13. Processing configuration; press Finish when it’s done.
    
14. Next, open command prompt (shortcut: Run>cmd). Enter the command below to test the MySQL server.

    mysql -u root -p

    Enter the password if you set one and if not, leave it blank and press the enter key.
    

15. You should been welcomed to the mysql monitor. Type exit to leave mysql and you’re done on this part. (TOC)

Installing phpMyAdmin
In this part, we will go through on the process to install phpMyAdmin. Read more about phpMyAdmin at phpmyadmin.net.

1. Extract the phpMyAdmin-2.11.7-english.zip that had been downloaded earlier.
2. Rename the extracted folder from phpMyAdmin-2.11.7-english to phpMyAdmin-2.11.7
3. Since I don’t want to mix up my phpMyAdmin folder with the other web files in the “root” folder, I decided to isolate it from there. Move the newly renamed folder (including the content) into the “MyPHP” folder.
   
4. Enter the “Apache229” folder and then to “conf“. Open the “httpd.conf” files with your favorite text editor. We’re going to make some editing here to tell the server where is our phpMyAdmin folder because we didn’t put it in its’ usual place (which is usualy the “root” folder).
   1. Scroll down until you find <IfModule alias_module>
   2. There is a couple of lines after that explaining about the section. Now, after the explanation, but before </IfModule> add the following line

      Alias /mysql/ "L:/MyPHP/phpMyAdmin-2.11.7/"
       
      <Directory "L:/MyPHP/phpMyAdmin-2.11.7/">
          AllowOverride All
          Order deny,allow
          Deny from all
          Allow from 127.0.0.1, localhost
      </Directory>

   3. Now, if you dislike the alias /mysql/, you can change it to your liking. Just remember it well so you can access it later.
5. Restart Apache server, open your web browser, and enter “http://localhost/mysql/” on the address bar to start using phpMyAdmin. Don’t forget the trailing forward slash since we declare it has one in the httpd.conf. Just change the mysql/ part if you didn’t use it with yours.
   
6. Up to this point, your phpMyAdmin will run with default configuration. If its’ ask for a username or password, it means your MySQL’s user and password.
7. If you want to make your own configuration file, refer to the phpMyAdmin documentation; the link can be found on the right side of your phpMyAdmin front page (or you can open the file Documentation.html directly located inside your phpMyAdmin folder)
8. For reference purpose, here is my configuration file. You can copy it and save it as config.inc.php in the phpMyAdmin folder

   <?php
   /*
    * Generated configuration file
    * Generated by: phpMyAdmin 2.11.5.2 setup script by Michal Čihař <michal@cihar.com>
    * Version: $Id: setup.php 10748 2007-10-10 07:30:59Z cybot_tm $
    * Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:08:22 GMT
    */
    
   /* Servers configuration */
   $i = 0;
    
   /* Server localhost (config:root) [1] */
   $i++;
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['host'] = 'localhost';
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['extension'] = 'mysql';
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['connect_type'] = 'tcp';
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['compress'] = false;
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['auth_type'] = 'config';
   $cfg['Servers'][$i]['user'] = 'root';
    
   /* End of servers configuration */
    
   $cfg['LeftFrameLight'] = true;
   $cfg['LeftFrameDBTree'] = true;
   $cfg['LeftFrameDBSeparator'] = '_';
   $cfg['LeftFrameTableSeparator'] = '__';
   $cfg['LeftFrameTableLevel'] = 1;
   $cfg['LeftDisplayLogo'] = true;
   $cfg['LeftDisplayServers'] = false;
   $cfg['DisplayServersList'] = false;
   $cfg['DisplayDatabasesList'] = false;
   $cfg['LeftPointerEnable'] = true;
   $cfg['DefaultTabServer'] = 'main.php';
   $cfg['DefaultTabDatabase'] = 'db_structure.php';
   $cfg['DefaultTabTable'] = 'tbl_structure.php';
   $cfg['LightTabs'] = false;
   $cfg['ErrorIconic'] = true;
   $cfg['MainPageIconic'] = true;
   $cfg['ReplaceHelpImg'] = true;
   $cfg['NavigationBarIconic'] = 'both';
   $cfg['PropertiesIconic'] = 'both';
   $cfg['BrowsePointerEnable'] = true;
   $cfg['BrowseMarkerEnable'] = true;
   $cfg['ModifyDeleteAtRight'] = false;
   $cfg['ModifyDeleteAtLeft'] = true;
   $cfg['RepeatCells'] = 100;
   $cfg['DefaultDisplay'] = 'horizontal';
   $cfg['GD2Available'] = 'yes';
   ?>

(TOC)

Now, all things are done. Start placing your web files and folders in the “root” folder. Let say your blog files in the “blog” folder; to access it enter “http://localhost/blog” in your web browser. Don’t panic if there is nothing coming out except for a list of files like the screen shot below. It just mean that at that level you didn’t have one of these files; index.php, index.htm, index.html, or index.html.var (because we set them to be serve first at DirectoryIndex in httpd.conf). If you intent to open a single files directly, type the full address like “http://localhost/blog/wp-admin.php“.
 

Extra
This section contains extra info that related to the installation process.

• How to restart Apache Server.
  1. There are two ways to restart Apache server; through cmd or Apache Monitor.
  2. Through cmd; open command prompt (shortcut: Run>cmd). Enter the command below to change directory

     cd "L:\MyPHP\Apache229\bin"

     Enter the command below to restart Apache

     httpd.exe -k restart

  3. Through Apache Monitor; right click your Apache Monitor icon on the taskbar, choose open and click restart.
      
• There is an alternatives to phpMyAdmin; known as SQLBuddy. Download it, extract and if you put the folder outside of “root” folder, make sure to do the same step as mentioned here. If you put it inside “root” folder, you didn’t have to do anything; no configuration to alter. Open your browser and enter the address “http://localhost/sqlbuddy” (or whatever name that you use).
• If you feel tired scrolling when editing a config file, use the built-in search function of your text editor (usually the shortcut key is ctrl + F).
• I suggest when you finish every single phase (installing the component), recheck and make sure it’s running. It’s easier to detect problem if we check it as early as possible. If you already out of idea how to solve things and before you drop me a questions, restart you PC first and retest again.
• When one of the new components been updated by their developer, before you update your setup, make sure it’s compatible with your other components first. Most of the time, not all the components been updated simultaneously by the developer and that can sometime break things. If you’re sure already, then update your component by revisiting the correspondent steps on this guide.
• It’s a lie if I said that I come out with all of this purely on my own. Here is example of another guide that I refer:
  1. Installing and configuring Apache on Windows XP
  2. Setup a PHP Development Environment on Windows XP With Apache, PHP 5, MySQL 5, SQLite, Eclipse, Subversion, PHPMyAdmin, and Datapod
  3. Setup WAMP (Windows-Apache-MySQL-PHP)
• For those who really didn’t have time to configure all this components yourself or just wanna a quick setup (eg: 5 minutes to the class project presentation ), there are an easy way. Using WAMP stack software distribution, most of the time you just need one click install or one time file extraction to install all the necessary components. Among them are:
  1. WampServer
  2. XAMPP
  3. GlossWord WAMP
  4. Apache2Triad

Conclusion
I do hope my post here brings benefit to anyone (including me…I tend to forget things ). One of the main reasons that motivate me to do this post is a constant repetitive emails from some of my friends asking how to setup WAMP on their machine. Well, after this I can point em’ to this post . Again, you guys can help me make this guide better; so any questions or suggestions, drop em’ at the comment box

So, is it the Firefox the true culprit? It’s possible since it’s a beta build, but somehow I don’t think so. I’m doing my own researching and after a while I found out that many other users that face the same problem already found out the solution. I initially assumes there will be a little ‘sudo-ing’ here and there but again, I’m wrong; the solution just simply removing/deleting/commenting a couple of lines in the xorg config. Below is my original counterpart config of the mouse section:

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 6 7 4 5 6″
EndSection

And below is the line that need to be remove; it’s a line to indicate mapping of the buttons. Do the changes, log off, login back, and voila…works like a charm.

Section “InputDevice”
Identifier “Configured Mouse”
Driver “mouse”
Option “CorePointer”
Option “Device” “/dev/input/mice”
Option “Protocol” “ExplorerPS/2″
#Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
Option “Emulate3Buttons” “true”
#Option “ZAxisMapping” “4 5″
#Option “ButtonMapping” “1 2 3 6 7 4 5 6″
EndSection

My 2 Cents
At first I thought it was a bug. Is it really a bug? But when it’s actually doesn’t need a config to work, can it be called as a bug? Why anybody doesn’t mention that on this release it doesn’t need a config to work? Or something like “it will not work if you had it configured” type of warning or announcement ? Nevertheless, glad it works again…although I’m also kinda like it to work on the other screen/windows/apps (not just browser), but not with the needs to tinker some files or some add on. Hey, they already did that with the browser and why not expand it a little further?

Hehehehe to much to ask I guess~~~

All right, we’ll look into a practical part and for that purpose I’ll use “[Shinsen-Subs]_Le_Chevalier_D’Eon_-_01_[6BD7BF33].avi” filename as an example. On a side notes, the example file is a video files (an anime to be exact) and as most fansubbers, they tend to include the CRC value at the end of their releases file name (the CRC value of that file is ’6BD7BF33′). So basically, to check the file integrity, we will compute the CRC value of the file and compare it with the given CRC value. If it’s the same, safe to say that there are nothing wrong with the file and vice versa. For a little of howto demonstration, I will classify it into two different platform; Linux and Windows.

Linux (Using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn 7.04)

Don’t panic if you have other distro (Fedora, SuSe, etc), it’s still the same method either way. Ok, using the terminal, change the directory into the folder where the target files to be check resides (example below).

1
2

overlord666@overlord666-altar:~$ cd Le*
overlord666@overlord666-altar:~/Le Chevalier d'Eon$

After that, type the command crc32 “your_filename” as shown below and press enter:

crc32 "[Shinsen-Subs]_Le_Chevalier_D'Eon_-_01_[6BD7BF33].avi"

The command above will print the CRC value and you can compare it with the given value. If you want to compute CRC value for all files in the particular folder just replace the filename (including the double quote sign) with * (asterisk sign). Simple isn’t it? Now if you encounter an error such as crc32 not found or install, try to install it first. Usually it will tell you what kind of package that you don’t have to run crc32. In my case, initially I didn’t install the tools so there’s an error and a reminder that asked me to install the needed package and I just follow the reminder (as shown below).

The program ‘crc32′ is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:

sudo apt-get install libarchive-zip-perl

Other than CRC value, usually in case of batch download (more than one files downloaded), the files creator tend to send an extra files so you can use it to verify all the files integrity. The usual extra files used were SFV and MD5 files. SFV is just a file format for storing CRC32 checksums of files. To verify using sfv file, I’m using a simple program called cksfv. Just open terminal and type “cksfv -f mysfvfile.sfv” (example below). The output will verify the integrity of your files:

cksfv -f [Shinsen-Subs].sfv

While md5 verification is not much different from sfv. The general syntax is “md5sum -c mymd5file.md5″ (example below). The output will also verify your files integrity:

md5sum -c sums.md5

Microsoft Windows XP

I do feel that I don’t need to elaborate in details about files integrity checking in Windows. Why? Because honestly, there are many freeware tools for Windows user to check their crc or sfv. And most of them comes with user interface and it shouldn’t take long to know how to use it (mostly support drag and drop features). One of my favorite tools in this department is QuickSFV. It contains all the basic features that needed to verify file’s integrity namely a quick verifications and creating sfv files. If you prefer just a simple checker, you can also try CRC32Finder. Or if you kind of greedy, try HashCalc; it can verify a choice of 13 of the most popular hash and checksum algorithms for calculations.

Conclusion

A corrupted files can be very frustrated if it being discovered on the last minute (watching video files and suddenly the audio lost!!??). So, verify the integrity first to avoid such frustration. Actually it’s not limited to video files only, it covers all types of files (providing you know the real or original CRC/md5/sha1 value that is). Real example is when I downloaded a Fedora iso files; before burn it into a blank DVD, I check the integrity by using sha1. The general syntax is sha1sum [OPTION] [FILE]. Example of sha1sum’s content (below):

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—–
Hash: SHA1

96b13dbbc9f3bc569ddad9745f64b9cdb43ea9ae F-7-i386-DVD.iso
fc2e7ab25550afb78608c7f432d0af6c6a7b2105 F-7-i386-rescuecd.iso
—–BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE—–
Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFGWfrHtEJp0E8qb9IRAlKbAJ4lFgv2g1t2HHkx9qBR+MICRTjEZACeKW1G
PARJf/frcaGIB27Lw8R3Nng=
=GQMy
—–END PGP SIGNATURE—–

Type the command in terminal (sha1sum -c SHA1SUM). The SHA1SUM is the name of the sha1 files and “-c” option indicate that we intend to check SHA1 sums against the given list (SHA1SUM). I just make sure the SHA1SUM is in the same folder with the iso files that I want to check. And that’s all for now and I do hope my post will bring any benefit to you. See ya’….

I read a lot of reviews about Safari’s Window version and most of them is not positive enough. Well it’s expected because the browser is in its beta phase (or alpha maybe). I also encounter some odd problem with it even before exploring the full functions of it (even after patching to 3.01). From the above pictures, on the left is Safari’s fresh installation and on the right after I meddling with some settings (in geeky way to note it). What I do is changing one key property from font.plist files located on “c:\documents and settings\<User Name>\Local Settings\Application Data\Apple Computer\Safari”. I change the font from arial key and the value is from linkin.ttf to arial.ttf. Well, to make it clearer, the browser didn’t detect my arial font by default and replacing it with one of many fonts that I already have on my system which happen to be linkin.ttf. I don’t know how this happen but what the hell…it’s beta anyway. But that doesn’t stop me from saying that Apple must work harder or else…Windows users will never turn their attention to Safari again. Just my two cents….

Source: Safari 3 Is An Half-baked Web Browser from Apple, Wait for a Patch

For those who still grieving about their internet connections, how about try to lessen the problem a little bit by using a proxy. A comprehensive guide on how to do it can be found at Lowyat’s Forum. But do note that some proxies have their own limitation and do “trial-and-error” a little bit (eg: some proxies didn’t allow https protocol). I suggest choose the nearest proxy as possible such as the Australian proxy. Also, at time like this, please be considerate to others and don’t overused the proxy for your own good (such as online gaming and p2p). I heard that the ships to repair the broken cable can only arrive at the designated location on 2 January next year and the repairing process itself can’t be finish in simply a day or two. So, maybe we will face this situation around 2 weeks. Bear with it I guess, it’s not anybody fault anyway. Nevertheless, my advanced gratitude goes to all the folks that involves in the repairing process. They sacrifice their valuable “years end” time to do it. Thanks folks!

If you ever wonder about the repairing process, maybe you can go to this site, have that all process explained. Last but not least, Happy Aidiladha, New Year, and please make a new year resolution that you convince you can fulfill ‘em. :-p

Well, one of the obvious advantage of configuring this WAMP combination manually is; it can easily been updated to the latest version of each of the component. Now, I revisit back my local configuration and I had decided to make certain update. I do aware that more often than usual “newest” doesn’t directly translated as “greatest“, mainly because of the compatibality issues and such, but what the hell…Just try it even there will be a problem later because I’m a kind of person that really loves to learn in a hard way :-P. Or maybe I just don’t have anything to do for the moment. Well, let see…I update my Apache 2.0.x to Apache 2.2.2, mySQL 4.1.x to mySQL 5.0.21 and php 5.0.1 to php 5.1.4. Oh…don’t bother with the “x”, I just can’t remember exactly what my last version is…:oops:

If you begin to excite because you predict that I will give some tutorial on configuring all this stuff, well…I’m not. Why? Simply because you can use Uncle Google to find such tutorial. But if you want a reference example, how about from my mates Crynobone and the tutorial is located here. So what the hell this post will serve? Just to point out though, that after configuring all this stuff, my Apache 2.2.2 seems can’t load the php5apache2.dll. At first I suspect there is something wrong with my Apache, but apparently it’s not. Well, luckily we have google aren’t we? A quick check at Apache Lounge Forum had revealed to me the true culprit. After doing all the suggestion, my Apache is run on again. Hahaha….yup, newest really doesn’t translated to greatest in someway afterall. Up to the time when I’m writing this, there is no official solution from php.net, so the solution is okay for the time being I guess. Okay, some tip for sharing, if you don’t want to contaminate your Window’s system32 folder with php.ini or all necessary .dll files, here how to do it.

1. Go to Control Panel>System (shortcut key: WinFlag + Pause/Break). Then locate the Advance tab & down below, click the Environment Variables button.
2. In the System Variables section, locate the variable names Path. Double click on it, and go to the end of the line in Variable Value section.
3. At the end of the line, add this value (including the semicolon) ;C:\php. Now, don’t just copy and paste. Your value is according to where you extract your php binary (or simply said where your actual php.ini resides). If you extract it to let say “C:\php514“, then the value is ;C:\php514. Get it?
4. Next, create a new variable called PHPRC and put the same value as above step but this time without the semicolon.

Ok, that’s it. But, do note that this is not a must, just a self preferences. Although this is not a guide or tutorial in any way, don’t hesitate to contact me if there are any problem. Depends on my condition, I’m willingly to help. Till next time, cau. Oh, I forgot to explain what WAMP is. Just go here. I only will end up copy and paste the whole stuff if I try to explain the meaning. Also, I’m trying a new technique of writing here which is “explaination at the end of the post” (just joking)