there are no dumb questions

uh-oh. i'm not an system administrator, don't possess that kind of intuitive, point-and-shoot skillset. i'm just a dumb, pedantic application programmer. well, this should be fun--twiddledee and twiddledum go to sysadminland. by the way, i'm working--pedantically--on the first problem, the mysql pw. i've managed to reset the su pw. somehow.

i learned there are no dumb questions--not when there's a hundred bucks for the first dumb question riding on the line. i was supposed to be learning about credits and debits and other accounting fundamentals, but the most memorable thing i learned was that there are no dumb questions. maybe if they started off every workshop or presentation or seminar or what-have-you by tacking up a hundred dollar bill, that would get my attention better.

okay, first not-dumb question: is that a canadian hundred or an american hundred? [the presentation, in toronto, was by american troupe, which explains the next question...] where did you get that outrageous accent? [they were from the south] and the rest of the day had a kind of pythonesque surrealism.

but even if i use python [just to read the manual and have a good chuckle--see the 2nd foreword to get a flavour of its outrageousness--remember, this is supposed to be a technical manual, not a blog] we need to meet the criteria of security and accessibility.  managing pw's on the db is the first step. or second if you consider the apache server the first.