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Joomla password reset

So you are trying to access your Joomla site backend and notice the password you are using is no good? Well, here is a simple solution for you to reset your Joomla password in a few easy steps: login to your site hosting control panel and look for phpmyadmin access lookout for your Joomla database, select it, and open an SQL query window and type in it this query: UPDATE  jos_users set password=md5('mynewpass') WHERE username="admin" Now you will be able to login with mynewpas...

Google insights into human behaviour

I was playing today with the google insights utility, and here some interesting search patterns based on the graphic shown, please note the repetitive patterns on the graphic for each year: insights for the term "future" shows an increasing in search around the end of the year in December, Canada users having an increased interest in the feature, followed by countries like India and Australia insights for the term "jobs" gains the highest interest in month July and decreases slowly unt...

Recovering from disk failures

As you might know, disk drives, specially in high usage areas like hosting enviroments, have a tendency of crashing from time to time. Most crashes you will encounter are related to bad blocks on your hard drive which in some cases will stop your operating system from booting, leaving your server at a stop. There are several utilities which can help you detect and fix the bad blocks at a software level, like the FSCK(file system check) available for Linux, or CHKDSK and SCANDISK for Windo...

Installing PHP on Windows got easier! finally….!

It seems that, earlier this year, Microsoft released a small application called Web Platform Installer , a utility meant to be dead simple to install a range of web applications and get your website up and going fast on a IIS server. Beside the usual Microsoft web applications support like ASP.NET and SQL SERVER, they also added support for PHP, facilitating this way the installation of a range of web publishing tools like Drupal, Moodle and Wordpress, hope I see some Joomla! there as it'...