8.00pm, yesterday - I knew it all the while that it is a bad idea to tamper with your computer before completing a project. But I still fail to comply to this ultimate law of computing. It started with my dear computer fail to connect to my home's LAN, and I first thought it was some iptables issue.
10.00pm, yesterday - I decided to reinstall the ancient Fedora Core 1 to 3 as I thought this would solve my problem. So I make a big hu-ha by plugging out my backup harddisk from my server and plug it into my computer. Not forget to mention, it tooks years to backup my 20GB of TVB drama ;)
12.00am, today - After the hassle of opening up both computer casings and skipping all the technical details of it, I finally started install FC3 and waited for some time before it complete installed.
1.00am, today - Computer restarted, tested the ethernet connection - failed. Concluded that the piece of ancient Planet fast ethernet start to fail on me. Noted in my brain that by morning I need to buy a new piece of ethernet card.
2.00am, today - moving the project into the right place, run it, and realise the perculiar "mysql-server" package wasn't installed. Reluctantly, took out the CD and make way to install that missing package. Then, this deadly message appeared - "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql (13)."
3.00am, today - After an effortless search on google, seeing that it was 3am in the morning, I concluded that this is a missing link caused by the "mysql-server" package which I post-installed, and decided to sleep. That was yesterday (in a way).
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10.00am, today - Woke up, sick - the dust and air-con plays a major role in turning me into a non-stop flowing water pipe (in simpler terms, running nose). Reluctantly took out the CDs and reinstalled my FC3. This time I told myself repeatedly not forgetting to include the killer package named "mysql-server". After an hour, happy that all goes well, repeat the whole procedure to put everything into the right place, load up my project and check.
11.00am, today - The deadly message appeared, again. "Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql (13)." Got even more sick.
12.00pm, today - Went out to buy the network card, a D-Link that costs me RM28 (PC Nova of Tesco Klang). Then went into Apex and requested for "Clarinese", which was recommended by the future-to-be pharmacist. Apparently, the pharmacist working in Apex only start his/her work on 4.30pm. Nevertheless, the kind cashier showed me the "Clarinese" on the shelf, but just that I can't buy it.
12.30pm, today - Drop by Guardian Bukit Tinggi, opened only on 2pm.
12.45pm, today - Check out a pharmacy in Bayu Perdana and bought "Clarinese" for RM12, and return home.
1.00pm, today - Fix the new network card, and test it. It works ;)
4.00pm, today - Taking a long, sad and painful search on google with regards of this non-sense error, and realised only after hours that it was a SELinux (solution here) security issue. And put myself on the hall of lame for reinstall my whole fedora for obnoxious reasons.
5.00pm, today - Updating fedora, and installing all the 3rd party softwares like flash, realplayer and java.
6.00pm, today - Restart computer and test my project, it works.. finally ;)
7.00pm, today - Realised I need to input chinese software, therefore search for SCIM, and download all the required source files (as rpm not available).
8.00pm, today - Dreaded SCIM smart input (scim-chinese) keep requesting for the pkg-config which I already installed and set the proper path, yet no prevail.
8.30pm, today - Activated IIIMF in my gnome and running it successfully (solution here). Finally, I can do chinese input in an English FC3 environment ;)
8.58pm, now - Posted this entry.
