I’m going to be on a plane for 12 hours Monday when I fly to Taiwan, so I figured I might as well do some php-mysql development to pass the time. In preparation, I installed the latest mysql 4.1.8 windows build onto my laptop, but when it came time to install the service, I ran into the error message:

“Resource messagedlg_confirmation not found.”

After some digging around I figured out that when my previous mysql 4.0.x was uninstalled, the existing service was not removed. Thus, when mysql 4.1.8 tried to install itself as a service, the previous installation was causing it to throw the error. So I removed the following two keys from the registry:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > ControlSet001 > Services > MySQL
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SYSTEM > ControlSet002 > Services > MySQL

Then I restarted, tried the configuration wizard again, and this time it successfully installed the mysql 4.1.8 service. I’m writing this for others out there who are running into this error when installing mysql 4.1.8. Hopefully this will save you some time.

Apparently there is an activation energy associated with my blogging after being absent for more than a couple days. For those of you who don’t remember Chemistry 101 (or never took it), this basically means that if I don’t blog for a couple days, it’s rather hard for me to start blogging again.

To recap, since my last entry I went home for Thanksgiving, had a lovely time with my family, came back from vacation and was swamped with work, left for a business trip to Toronto where I was swamped with even more work, came back home and am now trying to catch up with my life.

I don’t like business trips because usually I end up working 12 hours a day when I’m with a client, and the stress level is often really high. Nonetheless a few good things happened on this trip. I saw “The Incredibles” which was good fun, played DDR at an arcade (7 footer w00t!), got a game of Civ3 in with Troy and Jeff, and met up with two friends from IRC.

IRC is an online community of sorts. While most people I know would twinge at the thought of meeting online people (and I did too, when it happened for the first time), I’m finding it to be quite a fun experience. It’s actually rather interesting getting to know a person first and then seeing what they look like later. As for the whole “but what if s/he’s an ax murderer?!” thing, I assume it could happen, but the probability of it happening with an online acquaintance is most likely the same as of it happening with someone in real life. I mean, these people don’t go around carrying bloody axes in broad daylight when they meet you on the street, do they?