How to uninstall VMWare from a Linux System

To uninstall the VMWare Software from a Linux System is quite easy. VMWware comes with a pearl script for this. Just open a console and change to user root.

localhost:/# su
localhost:/# vmware-uninstall.pl

Kampfsport Fulda / Kung Fu

The Kung Fu Fulda website of the fight club is made by a simple php script without using any kind of cms. The index.php contains a piece of code which decides if a flash player is installed. Depending of the result, a html or flash site will be shown.

New Flash MP3 Player

A new free flash mp3 player has been released by Reality Software (Toronto, Canada). The component allows you to play music on your website. The application is very easy to install. Download it from the website and put it into your web directory. The component will automaticly scan your folders for .mp3 files.

New Flash Gallery released by Reality Software

A new flash image gallery has been released by Andrey Markin (Reality Software). This free application allows you to create a slideshow on your website. Easy installation, automatic slideshow generation, customizable design and other cool features. The application has been tested by the author and it’s quite recommendable.

Forgotten password for joomla backend

Open your joomla database with the PhpMyAdmin. Update the table jos_users:
Look for user “admin”, in most cases with the id 62. Edit the password field and type in:
21232f297a57a5a743894a0e4a801fc3
in Joomla >= 1.0.13 type in:
af9083d4b82dbc0745b124db3b3cf15d:M0WuLowO4rtRTddG

Make your linux prompt more colorful

Changing the color of your linux prompt is a quite easy thing. Different prompt colors may be useful to distinguish different machines more easy, or just for fun.

export PS1=’\e[0;32m\u\e[0;32m@\h:\e[0;0m\w\e[0;0m$\e[0m ‘

Just put the lines above in your /etc/profile and in the ~/.bashrc

How to arrange a software version number

Version numbers defines different software versions in the development process. In a constantly software development, which takes a lot of years, it’s essential to define a fixed number which represents a release.
But what is a meaningful arrangement of such a version number? For projects developed by my own, I’m using this arrangement:

Miniicons from icojoy.com

Here you can find a further great icon collection from iceboy. These icons are dedicated to most web projects and are a little cute. The collection is also good sorted.

Carrington theme – display comments in reverse order

Unfortunately, the favorite wordpress theme carrington-blog displays the comments in a reverse order. By default, the newes comment is shown at bottom. If you want to display the newest comment on top of list, you have to follow these instructions:
Open the file themes/carrington-blog/comments/comments-default.php

Carrington theme – display page comments

By using the carrington wordpress theme 1.3, you will have some problems to display comments on pages. Comments are working fine on posts, but on pages you will never see a comment although you’ve enabled it.
To solve the problem, just change the following line: