Chatter Of The Squirrel

Movie: Changeling

Changeling failed to bore me out of my wits.

Not as dreadful as I thought it might be. The story was compelling cos it’s probably somewhat true. (That’s as far as I dare to commit to Hollywood’s “true stories”).

Angelina Jolie probably screamed “My Son!” like 270 times. Just a little less than the word “F*ck” was used in Pulp Fiction.

There wasn’t anything in the performance that impressed me. And somehow I can’t take John Malkovich seriously after watching and failing to understand Being John Malkovich.

Tech: Reset MySQL Password

More often than not noob web developers will install WAMP or XAMPP to make things easier for themselves in place of building up a proper platform.

These buggers went as far as to UNINSTALL my existing MySQL installation just to make things easier for themselves! Granted that I haven’t started using the MySQL yet, but that’s just some NERVE!

So now I’ve got a MySQL installation that I’m locked out of.

But resetting is easy.

1. Stop the mysqld daemon process.
2. Start the mysqld daemon process with the –skip-grant-tables option.
3. Start the mysql client with the -u root option.
4. Execute the UPDATE mysql.user SET Password=PASSWORD(‘password’) WHERE User=’root’;
5. Execute the FLUSH PRIVILEGES; command.