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Invisibles ON!

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

To show invisible files on your mac, type the following into a Terminal window:
defaults write com.apple.finder AppleShowAllFiles TRUE
Then restart the Finder (command-option-escape, click on “Finder”, click the “Relaunch” button).
There are files all over the place now! I feel like Apple has been cheating me of files that I paid good money for! If all those [...]

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Configuring MySQL

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

I’m taking the lynda.com PHP with MySQL Essential Training course right now. In Part 2 (configuring the mac installation), I got this error while setting up MySQL:
ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can’t connect to local MySQL server through socket ‘/tmp/mysql.sock’ (2)
Did you get it too? This is the fix:
1. In the terminal, go to this directory: /usr/local/mysql/bin/
2. [...]

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