"My notes for getting all the prerequisites for Matt Knox’s 1st RubyU class (hosted by Sermo) set up on my MacBook Pro (10.5)" - Mackenzie Cowell from Bookmarklet

re: setting a root password for MySQL. I always forget it -- so I'm trying a different technique this time, from Dan Benjamin and Mike Clark. Via /etc/my.cnf, allow MySQL access only from the local machine. At least until we start accessing each others' servers in class. More on this and lots of other MySQL tidbits at http://hivelogic.com/article... - Paul Morganthall