Whenever a new release sees the day of light over at Apache I normally update immediately. This time however I couldn’t find the installer only the source files for Windows (yes I’m impatient).

Today I gave it a second go as I really wanted to test the latest version. So here’s the “where to get the binary ” post…

After clicking around I finally found what I was looking for. Without further ado I now present you with the link: www.apache.org/dist/httpd/binaries/win32/. The file you are looking for are at the bottom of the page. Depending on your need for SSL you should either pick apache_2.2.6-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi or apache_2.2.6-win32-x86-openssl-0.9.8e.msi.

Before installing the new version you have to uninstall the previous Apache version (if you’re running Apache that is). After that it’s pretty much straightforward. Chose custom when asked and install to the same directory as before. This way you get to keep your settings in httpd.conf and your web directories without doing anything at all.

Took me about 5 minutes to complete the upgrade.

If you have any questions feel free to ask!

The tech industry has a rich and hilarious history of being unable to promote itself as anything other than unutterably dorky. Originally we were going to call this ‘The top ten worst tech ads’, but as we hunted around we discovered these are pure gold. They are shockingly bad, but you’ll derive so much pleasure from watching them it didn’t seem right to use ‘worst’ any more.

Anyway, we’ve collected ten of our favourites — in no particular order — that made us laugh, either because they feature lycra, awful singing, pathetic old technology, Steve Ballmer or some combination of all of the above.

Go check it out >> 

Blendtec, a company making (you guessed it) blenders, runs a rather funny site named “Will it blend?“. Recently they made the following video available under the “Don’t try this @ home” category. The intro goes like this (which should give you a hint about what to expect):

We’ve really been struggling to find something that could challenge the Total Blender’s blending capabilities. What could we blend that’s stronger than anything we’ve ever blended? Then it hit us like a roundhouse kick to the face…Chuck Norris!

So will Chuck blend? Check out the video

Running a blog is both interesting and satisfying, but what do you need to think about when the overall goal is to attract as many visitors as possible?

If you’ve been blogging for a while, you probably have certain blogging ‘habits’ and tips that you swear by. This article is a collection of such tips, designed to help you build a better blog.

Warning! You may have read some of these before - heck, all of these will be familiar to you. There’s a very good reason - they work extremely well for the bloggers who swear by them and while it’s hard to get bloggers to agree on what the important tip of them all is, they will agree that IF you take out XX days and implement each of these tips ONE day at a time, your blog will be be kicking ass in your niche, in your blogging community and in the search engine results by the end of it.

Here’s the how-to according to Ahmed Bilal.

Ever wondered if you could do all the things you normally do on Windows on an open-source solution like Ubuntu (Linux distro). Well the following articles seams to be able to demonstrate just that.

Editor’s note: We all know how far open source software has progressed, but has it come so far to not only challenge Windows, but replace it? Can you really install Linux and open source software in place of Windows, and want for nothing?

In the first of this multi-part series we send in Ashton Mills to take on the challenge of using nothing but Linux and open source software… for absolutely everything. Will he find nirvana in the process, or lose all his hair in frustration? Follow him in and find out.

Start converting/reading here >>