A New Lesson

Yesterday, I attended a friend's wedding. I went there with my friend from Junior High.
We arrived a bit late. My friend actually forgot about the occassion.
In short, when we arrived other guests already gone home.
Grab a dinner, do the customary shakehands, and we just hit the road.

On the way back to our homes, we talked a lot. We've got a lot to catch up. After all, it was our second meeting after we departed from our home town, about 8 years ago.
We talked about lot of things.

My friend was my best friend boyfriend. There were happy, until suddenly he broke up the relationship.
She was devastated...
She called me and was on tears when she told me that news. She tought that he did that because he has found another person. It was really awfull, when one of your best friend called you and told you that kind of news.

And now after all these years, I finally heared from other side. He told me the reason why he broke up with her. He did that because he felt that he was not worthy enough for my friend. And there was no other person. And how he felt really awfull afterward.

In short, he let her go, so she could find a better person.
Hm... that's something new.
A new lesson for me...

MySQL 5

Just installed MySQL 5 on my Fedora Core 3 box. The process was very smooth, compared to my previous experience with upgrading MySQL from the 3.xx to 4.xx.

Here it is what I did, in details:

1. Download all the required RPM from mysql.com. There's actually no specific RPMs for the Fedora Core 3(FC3), but I've read somewhere that FC3 is the same product as the Redhat Advanced Linux 4(RHEL4). So I decided to give it a try, and download the packages for RHEL 4.
2. Uninstall the mysql related packages from FC3.
3. Cross my finger and run rpm -Uvh MySQL-* and everything worked as a charmed. The softwares fall into the intended places.:D Red Hat don't lie when they said FC has the same code base as the RHEL.
   
4. Do the all the ussual tests. Hm... looks OK. Just notice that there's a new "system" database. Don't remember the name. The tables on database mysql, also get new columns.Does it mean better security?
   
5. Run the web based application to find out I nuked the php-mysql package. Try to install it, but it complains about incorrect mysql version.
   
6. Download the php source rpm for the RHEL 4 from redhat.com ftp site, and rebuild it using rpmbuild --rebuild. The install was a success. The web based application is up and running.

Hm... can't wait to play with it. With all the new features: trigger, views, stored-procedures, the MySQL 5 would be a good toy for me. :D