WordPress MU

Hi,

How can I activate accounts w/o using the email function?

I am running WPMU to learn how to enhance it on a windows LAMP setup just for the time being until I can get my laptop switched to Linux. So I dont want to invest a lot of time in configuring MS Windows as a smtp server.

Thanks in advance, John

Grab coffee2code's SMTP plugin, and use an external SMTP server.

Hi, I am stuck on Win32, I am not really interested in investing any time into M$.

I will be installing Linux, but my new compac laptop has a broken CD player, but before I return it I have to finish my undergrad thesis. So I am stuck w/ WAMP.

There MUST be a field somewhere that needs to be changed to allow me to login.

Thanks again, john

BTW, I see this complaint a lot.

Grab coffee2code's SMTP plugin, and use an external SMTP server.

Either do what lunabyte suggested, or if it's just you logging in, change the admin password in the database.

How do you do that ??

Thanks again, john

I found the table and field. There appear to be keys in there; are you aware of that ??

Rethinking computers.

I write about the Information Society; that is the Internet. I started that in 2002 when jobs moved offshore to India; why that happened is another issue altogether, and discussion of it usually leads to another discussion.

From 1989 to 2002, my career in technology, things obviously changed a lot. But for all the change, there was not really any change. From about 1990 to 1995, we had reliable if slow machines working in text. Images were delivered by FTP; Linux was just being born.

Our world was shell code (I became friends with David Korn) wrapping C programs. Perl, when it came along was very helpful.

Then, and suddenly, there was a spiralling decay into complication as the computer and the Internet became useful for other things such as ecommerce and governance.

Along with the decay, was a change in mentality that forced me to rethink computing. My new thought was the ThinMan model loosely based on the proof of concept offered by the Perl CPAN application --not that the Perl community as unaffected by the decay.

I keep the model to myself because, since 1998, the pervasive sense of frustration I have felt as basic computing values slip away tells me that my work will either fail, if it is successful, or succeed in a way I did not intend.

The really interesting thought I had just now is not about technology, but about race. Globalism is intertwined with race, of course. Various racial elites from all over the world prove to the United States every minute of every day that their own elite is to weak to be useful.

As an example, China owns 2/3rds of US Treasury bonds, and India owns nearly all of the technology based industry. The damage by India has been so bad that the US government does not want to say exactly what the services trade imbalance is.

I like to joke, that may own 2/3rds of our government on paper, but it still has to collect.

That is not really a funny joke, because resisting collection in that case may lead to a nuclear war.

These trade imbalances between nations have been evident for about as long as the SMTP problem; and in both cases there has been no discussion that could lead to a simple solution.

The sense of frustration I feel everytime I try to work with the newer releases of public domain software is nearly the same as I feel when I wonder why the US leadership brings the US to the brink of nuclear war again and again.

The sense of frustration is the same because the people are the same. The only documented clue to exactly what the problem is from a psychological perspective comes from Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence where he shows us that the US elite college system is channeling people with normal emotions away from the admissions process. But that is only a psychological answer, not a social one.

Goleman did write a book called Social Intelligence, but it is misnamed; Goleman would not know society if it bit him. The book is really about immorality and how the mind rationalizes it (high road / low road) and also about how he wants to rewire the human mind to think better through neuroplasticity. The example he gives is of "whitening" rap music by preventing Blacks from the ghetto from writing rap, or creating rap memes, and giving the task of writing ghetto music to Blacks raised in the White intellectual community.

As absurd as this sounds, it sounds reasonable to many people to whom I present the idea. Maybe I am getting somewhere; maybe I am identifying what gives me such a profound sense of frustration.

Obviously, Whitening Black music is not to help Black people "get along" as Rodney King, the victim of a police beating said we should all do.

The Whitening of Black music is to protect the elite White structure in the US; not the world structure, but the US structure. The world structure is multicultural; it is the multicultural diversification of racism. Like the image of the Chinese trying to collect on American treasury notes facing nuclear destruction, this image is funny too. But it is likewise scary too.

Since I have been away from computers as a profession for four years, the actual solution to the email activation problem came very quickly. It would seem extreme, but would prevent much frustration in the future; it would be the rethinking of PHP, with a redesign based entirely on the basic learning and traditional approaches of open systems as they were conceived in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

Exactly why PHP exists is a mystery by itself. I nearly precisely resembles Perl, but lacks Perl's two major strengths: typing by context and complex structures.

Perl is run by lunatics; a quick review of the Usenet can easily prove this. The Perl community would never consent to the simple paradigm that propelled PHP to where it is now; they seem to struggle against simplicity.

The lack of simplicity is at the heart of this particular problem; maybe there should be a conceptual focus on simplicity in design to create a common root for developing a solution to all these highly frustrating topics.

When it comes to global nuclear war, political assassination is excusable if it saves humanity. I am not saying Larry Wall should be shot, of course, though that is a funny image: anarchists killing the Christian Perl zealot.

But a complete removal of software technology rolling back the damage to before the invention of the Web; that is a radical approach that would make sense. And the relational database; how does it survive? I personally used object oriented persistent structures before the RDBMS became cheap enough for me to use; my goal was to design standardization, and I succeeded by applying my model to text configuration files. This is, by the way, a clue to the ThinMan model, but just a clue.

Adding now to the overwhelming feeling of frustration is the persistence of the RDBMS.

But the holiest of frustration has to be the feeling I get when I call compaq to service my laptop. The fact that compaq representatives in India will not give me a bonafide copy of Windows to replace the highly broken image they distribute with laptops is not the issue. But it is how I have gotten to know the Indian elite.

I tell them white lies to probe their psychology, and I can understand why White corporate America likes them so much as to export most of American industry at a considerable loss. They represent the very roots of the Information Society, the societal structure that created Western civilization: the Egyptian Empire.

The structure is weak; within its component sub-structures are systems like this very blog. Individual pieces of information are virtually worthless; solutions are really extensions of the problem.

As Einstein said, "you cannot solve a problem with the means by which it was created." In Information Society terms, that means that you cannot hack something broken into being something valuable. You have to build value from the core outwards, as David Korn did --bless his heart. In the constructivist sense, you cannot build knowledge, you can only build upon knowledge, and often knowledge has to be recovered and reconstructed to build upon.

I guess that is why the image of Larry Wall's assassination seems funny to me; hacking is not just a stupid word, as it implies crime, it's a stupid activity. That is why I don't want to do it; I rather write my own application.

It is a shame that applications programming and communication cannot prevent the phenomenal meltdown precipitating because of the growth of China, India, and other elite nations. We tried that, and we accidentally accelerated the process.

So, what next ??

Grab coffee2code's SMTP plugin, and use an external SMTP server.