How to set-up a Home Network:

IP Settings: Click Start and choose Control Panel   Click Network and Internet Connections   Choose Network Connections   Right-click the Local Area Connection and choose Properties   Select Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) and click the Properties button   Tick: Obtain an IP address automatically and Obtain DNS server address automatically   Click OK to close the box, then OK on the next to apply the setting.   Configure the workgroup settings per the next section.

Note: If you have a My Network Places icon somewhere, you can right-click it and choose properties in substitution of the first three steps

Workgroup and Computer Name Settings: Click Start then right-click My Computer and choose Properties. (This can be done if you have the icon on your desktop also)   Choose the Computer Name tab and click the Change button   Under Member of: tick the Workgroup option and type in a network name, or leave it as the default. (Keep in mind, for your computers to see each other on the network, the workgroup names must all be identical)   Click OK to apply the settings, then OK again to close the remaining box.   You're Finished!

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Another Old Content Update. I'm not hosting the Automatic Removal Tool anymore, so who knows when the link will expire.

Realphx / TalkStocks ( AIM Virus ) Removal Instructions / Tools:

Download the Removal Tool (automated javascript) -- Just download it and run it. (or just open it directly)

These may have appeared in your profile if you have been infected:

Manual Removal Instructions:

1. Press the CTRL, ALT, and DEL keys at the same time to bring up the task manager.
2. Click on the processes tab (windows 2000/XP), and find 'b.exe', 'bbb.exe' or 'av.exe' and kill the process.
3. Go to C:\Windows\ and delete 'b.exe' and 'bbb.exe' or 'av.exe' (or do a search for the virus: click Start > Search > look up each virus individually) Delete these when you find them.
4. Click Start, then click on Run, type in "Msconfig" in the box and press ENTER.. When the box comes up, click on the "startup" tab and look for "b.exe" or "av.exe" listed (possibly listed under"antivirus") then uncheck the box to the left. (Windows 98/XP only)
5. Clear your profile (or make a new one) and restart.
6. When the msconfig box comes up after restart just check the box telling it not to come up again.

As some of you may have noticed, I've recently added a search box to the top of the site.  This is a default module in joomla, but the template I'm using didn't have support for a search bar right out of the box.  This blog post describes how I added the modified the WR_Futilus_Situs theme so it would have a search box that looked like it fit in.

At a high level, the steps involve:

• Enabling the search module and setting it up
• Modifying the theme's index.php file to include the search box
  

And here are the details:

Setting up the module: 

• Enter the Joomla Administration page.
• Click Modules > Site Modules
• Click on the Module named "Search" (of type "mod_search")
• Make sure the item is published by clicking the appropriate radio box.
• And change the Position Drop Down box to position User8
• Click save at the top
  

Modifying the index.php file:

• FTP into your server
• Access the joomla_home/templates/wr_futilus_situs folder
• Download the file index.php (from the above folder) for editing
• Find the section called <!-- START: SUCKERFISH -->
• Below : <div id="nav">
                          <?php mosShowListMenu($menu_name);    ?>
              </div>
  Insert:     <div style="padding-top: 5px;" align=right>
                          <?php mosLoadModules ( 'user8', -1 ); ?>
                </div>
• Save the file and upload it via FTP
• You are DONE!
  

In case you haven't read my other posts about search engine optimization, I've been on an SEO kick lately.  I've renamed all my images in the photo gallery so they all have some context now.  Google indexes galleries, but the next step was to be able to search the images from within my own site.  I installed the gallery2 search mambot plugin for joomla, but it wasn't doing anything.  Here's what I did to get it working.

1. Install the mambot
   -Administrator Backend: Installers > Mambots
2. Enable the mambot
   -This is the part I was somehow forgetting, but it's critical
1. Admin Backend: Mambots > Site Mambots
2. Click the X icon next to the Gallery2 Search mambot to publish it
3. Change some code that comes default with the Jan 6 release:
   -Go to the searchbot PHP file
   mambots/search/gallery2.searchbot.php
   
   Look for the code around line 63 like this:
      $info->created = utility::g2DateToMambo($time);
   
   Change it to this:
     $info->created = utility::formatdate($time);