So here we are. You have access to PHP my admin right?

• Open PHP My admin
• Open the database
• Checkout WP_USERS and click the little browse icon
• Click the pencil to edit admin
• Now go here to create a MD5 hashed password
• Copy the gobledygoop beside md5:
• Back in PHP Myadmin, next to the user_pass field, paste your gobledygoop
• Click go or save, whatever
• Head over to http://localhost:8888/wp-login.php and voila.

Rock on.

$ mkdir /backup/wp/28nov2006
$ mysqldump -u user -p WP-DATABASENAME > /backup/wp/28nov2006/blog.db.sql
$ tar -zcvf /backup/wp/28nov2006.tar.gz /var/www/html/blog
Step # 2: Download latest wordpress CMS

$ cd /tmp
$ wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip
$ unzip latest.zip
Step # 3: Overwrite all new files

$ cd /var/www/html/blog
$ cp -avr /tmp/wordpress/ .
$ rm -rf /tmp/wordpress /tmp/latest.zip

Open a browser and run update script such as http://yourblog.com/wp-admin/upgrade.php

And you are done. Thanks to UNIX shell access. It just took less than 1 minute Replace path names and database name with actual values.

In case, if something goes wrong, you can always restore old database and files from /backup/wp/28nov2006 directory.

Thanks to these guys for the write up

To those Web 2.0 freaks who say there’s no place on the web for flash, I say better check yo self. This little diddy by http://syzygy.de/ blows me away, quite amazing user experience created with flash. Load times are a little long at times but overall worth it in my opinion. There’s a cool little game when you goto “Prizes”, I’m sold! Unfortunately, I can not afford Mercedes merchandise.

Check it. >>

1. Get and install Wamp. To avoid headaches, install in your c:\
2. Ftp your server files to C:\wamp\www\rareexample
3. Backup your Database locally
4. Open your database file, search and replace rareexample.ca for rareexample.dev
5. Run wamp, it will put a little icon in your tray, left click it, goto Apache, open http.conf
6. Go to the bottom and paste this

   NameVirtualHost 127.0.0.1
   <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
       ServerName localhost
       DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/"
   </VirtualHost>
   <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1>
       ServerName www.rareexample.dev
       DocumentRoot "c:/wamp/www/rareexample/"
   </VirtualHost>
   

7. Save the file
8. Left click wamp icon, restart all services
9. edit your hosts file located in \WINDOWS\system32\drivers\etc
10. add this to it and save it
    127.0.0.1 www.rareexample.dev
11. Click start, run, paste this ipconfig /flushcache
12. Have a beer.

P.s. if you’re wanting to access your windows server from a mac. Try this

1. Open terminal
2. pico /private/etc/hosts
3. add the 2 similar lines as the windows host file but instead of 127.0.0.1, put your xp boxe’s lan ip
4. dscacheutil -flushcache on mac
5. Don’t forget to change your httpd.conf and add VirtualHost entries for your local ip

If you take a peek at the ontario website(How’s that for a friendly URL?) you’ll see no real change or clear brand equity. No clear message of what Ontario has to provide, stands for. No feeling of trust, inspiration or motivation. The colors are drab, pale, grey and the design is circa 1990 with cheezy flash transitions and images with the classic dotted shade backgrounds… I can go on and on with an in depth review of the website but that’s not my point here.

I’m all for change, change is good, but only when change is needed. There’s no real reasoning behind this change, it’s just blah.

The logo, despite looking like 3 dudes in a hot tub is ok, but is it really worth changing our heritage with no real reasoning with a nifty price tag of over $200 000? I mean shit, I could have re-designed Ontario’s website with some clear goals, usability and accessibility for our beloved Ontario province for less then half the cost.

The only two reasons I can see for this is *fiscal year end blowout, Liberal agenda. Seriously now, ain’t there better things to spent tax dollars on then a logo redesign ?

*Fiscal year end blowout is when government sectors have money left in their budget at the end of the fiscal year and need to blow it on shit so they can get the same amount or higher budget the following year. If they overspend, they have a chance to get a little more in their budget so they can have more to blow on other useless shit. That money is usually spent on crap like T.V. Commercials, Radio adds, misc add campaings, web and print stuff and private hot tub parties in cancun.

Welcome to my world and the world of many other disgruntled folk stuck in a lackluster Windows clustermuck of buggy shit software.

Well the kind gentle folk over at MS gave us a free way for us to keep testing their shit software. Thanks to the blog over at

http://blogs.msdn.com/ie/archive/2007/04/17/ie7-virtual-pc-image-and-ie6-virtual-pc-image-refresh.aspx

First you gotta download a virtual PC

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx

Then you must download the actual image 450 Megs so hope you have a good net connection…

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=21EABB90-958F-4B64-B5F1-73D0A413C8EF&displaylang=en

Go bake a cake

Install both respectively

Note the image above expires in July 2008 for some reason…

Now open Microsoft Virtual PC, go next until you see options
Select “Create a virtual Machine”
Click Next and Next again to accept the default operating system selection of Other
You can accept the default RAM allocation or lower the setting to 96MB. Setting the RAM quota below 32MB is not recommended.
Click next. Specify that you wish to use an Existing virtual hard disk and then click Next again
Browse for and select the inflated Virtual Hard Disk file from the download package. Do not enable Undo Disks. Click Next to continue
Click Finish to complete the Wizard

You may need to do this if you are running WAMP and having problems.

WordPress › Blog Tool and Weblog Platform

sudo mkdir /var/mysql/

And lastly, create a symbolic link to point the default socket file:

sudo ln -s /tmp/mysql.sock /var/mysql/mysql.sock

Now if only I can figure out what’s wrong with Mod_rewrite