How to remove friends from MSN profile but keep them as Messenger friend

Just search the Internet and found the following steps to hide your friends from your profile page in MSN

1. Sign in to profiles with your Windows Live ID.
2. Click on Privacy settings, then Advanced.
3. Under Profiles and search, click on Basic information.
4. Under Friends list, move the slider to Just me and click Save.

How to enable Telnet feature in Windows 7

Telnet client is a tool useful for network trouble shooting. However, Telnet client is not install in Windows 7 by default. To install Telnet client in Windows 7, follow the following procedures:

1. Select "Programs And Features" from Control Panel
2. Select "Turn Windows features on or off"
3. Check Telnet Client
4. Hit OK

With this setting, you should be able to use Telnet client on your command - Cmd.

phpMyAdmin: You probably tried to upload too large file

Sometimes when importing database into MySQL, you may face with the error message of "You probably tried to upload too large file. Please refer to documentation for ways to workaround this limit."

To resolved this issue in phpMyAdmin, you will need to increase the limit parameters in php.ini. For example, in my test site:

max_execution_time = 120 ; Maximum execution time of each script, in seconds (def. 30)
max_input_time = 180 ; Maximum amount of time each script may spend parsing request data (def. 60)
memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (def. 128mb)
upload_max_filesize = 128M ; Maximum allowed size for uploaded files. (def. 2mb)
post_max_size = 16M ; (def. 8mb)

phpMyAdmin: #1153 got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes

Sometimes when importing database into MySQL, you may face with the error message of "#1153 got a packet bigger than 'max_allowed_packet' bytes"

To resolved this issue in phpMyAdmin, simply increased max_allowed_packet to 16MB in MySQL configuration file: my.ini. For example:

#max_allowed_packet = 1M
max_allowed_packet = 2M

Where is database password set in Joomla! Configuration

If you happen to change the MySQL database password of Joomla, you will need to update this password information into the var $password in configuration.php in the root of your Joomla! website.

var $password = 'new password';

Bluehost Joomla: Could not instantiate mail function

User of Joomla site hosted in Bluehost may face the issue of "Could not instantiate mail function" if Joomla is not configured properly.

To overcome this problem, under Joomla Global Configuration, PHP Mail Settings, SMTP username and password information are required in order for email to function properly in Bluehost hosting environment.

To create SMTP account, simply login to Buehost Control Panel, select Email Account from Mail setting.

Joomla! Installation Problem -- Strict Standards: ... cache.php on line 420

After installing the Joomla! version 1.7 on xampp, the following messages was generated on my site:

Strict Standards: Accessing static property JCache::$_handler as non static in D:\xampp\htdocs\joomla\libraries\joomla\cache\cache.php on line 420

Following was solution posted on Joomla! Forum:

Open Joomla admin
go to global configuration and server
please change error reporting to SIMPLE (instead of none, as mentioned there).

It solved the issue so far. See more info on the discussion on this issue on Joomla Forum.