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How to upgrade Serendipity

nospam@example.com (Gregg Berkholtz) — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 14:11:39 -0700

My personal blogging tool, Serendipity needed an upgrade. Here's how I did it:

cd /path/to/blog/
wget "http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/php-blog/serendipity-1.5.5.tar.gz?download"
mv serendipity-1.5.5.tar.gz\?download serendipity-1.5.5.tar.gz
tar -xzf serendipity-1.5.5.tar.gz --strip-components=1

Then I went to the Admin Panel, and saw the Serendipity upgrader. It said all was good, so I clicked the only option (return to your blog).

Done

Yea, it really was that easy!

What a fraud Vectrix

nospam@example.com (Gregg Berkholtz) — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 08:26:41 -0700

How disturbing...

Earlier yesterday I posted to a CAD/CAM machinist forum, seeking help with their software. Hours later I find that my posting has been doctored to not only remove information valuable to anyone visiting, but they fraudulently re-characterized my original message into a semblance of praise for their software.

What's even more disturbing is their recent Award, and how they cited forum comments as "...Vectric wish to Thank all of our customers for posting such glowing feedback and positive information on the Forum, because the Queen's Awards committee considered this to be very important when making their decision..."

How disgusting...here's the facts.

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iPhone update due "soon"

nospam@example.com (Gregg Berkholtz) — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 09:51:13 -0700

An update to my previous rant about Apple's attempts at forced obsolescence.

Rumor is, Apple is going to release a software update to Fix iPhone 3G performance issues...soon...

I'll believe it when I see it. Until then, some of us have Real Work to do on these things and simply cannot wait for Steve Jobs/Apple to throw us long-time loyal customers a tiny little bone.

Steps to fix slowness on iPhone3G w/ iOS4.0.2...
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