Linking Back on the Server Side
A2Hosting.com Down This Morning (12/24/207)
DreamHost.com and many, many others lose uptime as well (worse). This morning’s outage was probably under one of them east-coast snow storms. And most importantly not only did Songhay System sites (featuring kintespace.com) drop off the World Wide Web, A2Hosting.com vanished as well. Also, A2Hosting.com declares in public that they have a 99% uptime rate. DreamHost.com does not (moreover, very, very often when my sites under DreamHost.com went down DreamHost.com stayed up—that’s very little incentive for red-blooded Americans to truly fix ‘the problem’).
Joomla Links
Sadly, I needed to know how to change a password for a Joomla user. This need led to “FAQ: How do I recover my admin password?” after taking a peek at “How to Move Your Joomla! Site to a New Server” and “Moving / Exporting Joomla from one location to another (with Phpmyadmin and FTP).” The essential action to take is to generate the MD5 hash of the password and then enter it directly in the database. There is a JavaScript-based tool that does this.
Check your server. It might have the Year 2038 problem.
Check it.
“Introducing Microsoft Sync Framework: Sync Services for File Systems”
This framework may be more like Windows Briefcase on steroids instead of finally getting something like rsync.
“WinRM: Remote Management across the Internet”
This is not really a shell session over something like SSH. This is just receiving a remote object (I assume a WMI object only) and working it over in a local script.