XAMPP is a very easy to install Apache Distribution for Linux, Solaris, Windows and Mac OS X. The package includes the Apache web server, MySQL, PHP, Perl, a FTP server and phpMyAdmin.

If you're trying to use MySQL with phpMyAdmin, you've set up the phpMyAdmin's config.inc.php, and you're getting an error saying "Client does not support authentication protocol requested by server; consider upgrading MySQL client", you need to set the password on the mysql command line using the OLD_PASSWORD('password') routine.

For example:

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Slashdot underlines there are too much forks of MySQL on the way.

After leaving MySQL, Michael “Monty” Widenius started its own code fork, backed up with a company.

The nerds think the destiny of MySQL is unclear, but it is still too early to get a clear vision.

Oracle buys BEA and Sun buys MySql.

In reply,Migrosoft is hungry and is watching Yahoo :-)

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Any bets on the next money-based-news?

I'm going for

• Oracle buys Sun: "We need more hardware to run Oracle and WebLogic together! "
  
• Google buys Oracle: "We have *even* more hardware...come on!"
  
• Apple buys Google: "So nice LOGO", retrodating a bunch of stock options, I suppose.
  
• Microsoft buys Apple ("So annoied their are more cool then us!") and shut down all them all so you will end up using their search engine, I hope.

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