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Upon restarting from the lastest couple of automatic Leopard updates from Apple PHP could no longer connect to MySQL, giving the error: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/mysql/mysql.sock' (2) What this means is it can't find mysql.sock OR it's not finding the database ip you specified in your connection code. So, try this first: - replace "localhost" with "127.0.0.1" in your PHP If that doesn't work, you probably need to create a virtual linked file from /var/mysql/mysql.sock to /private/tmp/mysql.sock (where you are bound to have one): 1. Fire up the Terminal application 2. Type: cd /var ls 3. If you DO NOT have a mysql directory already in here type: sudo mkdir mysql 4. Do the important bit: cd mysql sudo ln -s /private/tmp/mysql.sock mysql.sock 5. If you get a mysql_connect Access denied for user type error subsequently, try: GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON database_name TO user@host IDENTIFIED BY 'password'; FLUS

Say for example I want to use an expensive product - like something from Adobe's CS4 - but I only need to use it a couple of times a year because I'm not a designer. My options are: - Fork out the £2.5k required to buy the product - Get a pirate copy from thepiratebay.org for nothing and infect my PC/Mac with some hideous virus AND have to deal with carting my guilt around in a wheelbarrow (ok, handbag then) - Cry Not a fabulous choice. I also have a 512k broadband connection - so a clever web-based cloud version of the software (which doesn't even exist yet) isn't going to cut it for me. So how about: - Download full software as free trial which lasts 30 days - After which time you enter your paypal/credit card details and pay for each 8 hour chunk of usage - say £10 - Once you've paid up to the full amount of the product, it's yours and your license goes full. This as a licensing model would help cut piracy, work for casual users, still work for heavy users, w