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When Apache ( Xampp ) refuses to start

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You got to open the command promt on WinXP and type ( with quotes )

"C:\Program Files\xampp>xampp_start.exe"

If that doesn’t work you can drag the xampp_start.exe from your installation folder onto the command promt and press ENTER. ( this works for other stuff to, try it )

This will give you more information on why things fail, it helped me hunt down a bug which I could trace back to my configuration of httpd-vhosts.conf and httpd.conf. A network drive of mine refused connection and triggered errors when starting Apache from my Xampp control panel.

Which makes me think: Why o why do women don’t have a cmd prompt :)

MySQL 6 in alpha stage

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The n° 1 open source database MySQL has reached the alpha stage of version 6. An interesting development is the MyBS engine for storing blobs ( binary data ). The engine streams the data through an implemented server which should improve the time needed to serve this kind of data. The second big ( in fact huge ) change is the development of a new storage engine called “Falcon”, to replace InnoDB ( which was bought by Oracle earlier ). Falcon should feature everything that InnoDB has, only faster.

http://www.mysql.com/mysql60/