PHP – Geek and I

Linux Distributions vs PHP

By mike March 24, 2010 0 Software FreeBSD, Linux, Musings, PHP, Red Hat, Ubuntu

The splintering of Linux distributions seems to be continuing! This week, I have had requests for PHP versions 5.3 and 5.2 on both Red Hat EL 5 and CentOS 5 – though never distribution supports higher than 5.1.6 in the official repositories. PHP 5.2 has been out quite a while. Ubuntu Hardy LTS has it and it is 2 years […]

Threading and web based discussion systems

By mike September 7, 2008 0 Software Forums, PHP, Threading, Wikipedia

I kind of grew up in the old BBS days, with subboards, message boards, or whatever you want to call them. I even ran a few…I miss my Apple ][gs. Over time, I learned of UseNet and everything changed. Thousands of groups, hundreds of thousands of concurrent topics, millions of readers, and who knows how many responders. BBS is local, […]