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Joomla 1.5 RC3 Released
According to the good people at Joomla ....  "Joomla! 1.5 RC3 [codename: Takriban] is now available for download. We've had the 'Red Barchetta' release candidate, then Endelo RC (meaning development, progress ... improvement). Takriban means 'almost, nearly'. Well folks we're almost, nearly there. Stable is getting very close."
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Choosing Secure Joomla Extensions
The most important thing anyone can do is make good decisions regarding the extensions they choose to use on a site. Once an insecure or malicious extension is installed you should consider your entire site compromised. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY to protect or stop a component from accessing database tables it should not be accessing. There is no possible way to stop a component from sending all of the information it found back to a cracker website. Once an insecure or malicious component is installed, your entire site is insecure.
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Joomla Performance Tips
This tutorial covers some of the basics for improving the performance of your Joomla site. The performance increase obtained will vary from site to site depending on variables like server hardware, type of hosting etc that you have for your Joomla site.
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Improve Performance With Caching
You can improve the performance of your Joomla site by turning on caching. When caching is turned on, Joomla creates a static file or "cache" of your website data on the disk. When the static file is found, the system retrieves the data from the disk rather than from the database. This improves performance because it saves system resources by not making redundant SQL calls to the database.
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Reset Super Administrator Password
If you have lost your Joomla Super Administrator password you can reset it in the MySQL database using phpMyAdmin. Following the steps below, your Joomla Super Administrator login will be set to
Username - admin
Password - admin
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Move Joomla Site to a New Server
While installing Joomla to your Ausweb hosting account can be simply done using Fantastico Deluxe, there are some occasions where you want to transfer an existing Joomla site to your Ausweb hosting account. This may be because you already have a Joomla site hosted elsewhere and are changing hosting providers or you have a Joomla site that you have developed on a test server.
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