Archive for April 12th, 2009
Slipstreaming SATA Drivers onto a Windows XP CD
Posted by admin | Filed under Computing and IT, Pick and Mix
When Windows XP came out, SATA was cutting edge, and it didn’t detect sata drives during installation, which is a problem if you want windows to install and run from one of those drives. It’s fine if you’ve got a floppy drive as you can supply the drivers that way. However, most modern laptops have [...]
Tags: customising, operating systems, windows xp
Reset a Modx Manager Password using SQL
Posted by admin | Filed under Computing and IT, Pick and Mix
If you’ve forgotten your manager password and you have access to the database and can issue mysql commands (phpmyadmin, or from a mysql command prompt). Use this to reset an account password, tbh, I would of hoped this system was salted (instead of using standard md5, maybe it was done intentionally to allow for this).
UPDATE [...]
Tags: cms, modx, sql, web development