I can’t beat Airman!!!

I’m not 169% sure but I think this is the original that kicked off the fad.

Basically, this is the song about someone trying to take down Airman in Megaman 2 – and failing miserably, repeatedly. It goes onto him looking for hints on the Internet, where he is told to steal Woodman’s leaf shield and try again. Finding himself unable to beat Woodman, he decides to, instead, collect E-cans until the very end and try to win. For anyone who hasn’t played Megaman 2, keep in mind that Airman and Woodman are two of the easiest bosses in the game.

The song is F***ing catchy.

There are quite a few other creations that pick up on this meme – Dragonball Z one:

Japanese “Erogames”

God Gears:

Gundam Seed:

This meme rules.

-edit-

This was the original airman one – and it makes sense. He was trying to beat heatman, needed that jet sled (Item #2) which he gets from Airman. I remember having the same problem!!

“Can’t connect to MySQL server on (*) (13)” Error? Centos or SE Linux? Read on.

I had the most irritating bug in PHP – or so I thought. I simply was unable to connect to the database. I spent the entire weekend recoding and simplifying until I gave up and made a simple connect statement. I kept getting the error message “Can’t connect to MySQL server on (Remote IP) (13)”.

(The “13″ is really confusing and led me down the wrong path. It is actually the result of error code 2003.)

Anyway to save you time, log into your Centos/SE Linux server and type in:

/usr/sbin/setsebool -P httpd_can_network_connect=1

This is basically a setting in SELinux that enables remote connections and is off by default. (Remind me to flay the guy who administers the network). Thanks to the OSCommerce user “ericp502″ who posted the solution.

The weird thing about Tokyo and Brossard

In the Tokyo Mosque, the Turkish Imam gave a fairly good sermon in English, Japanese and Arabic. They also had papers of it available so people who had a hard time listening could read along and understand.

In Brossard, 2/3 of the Imams in the rotation are Pakistanis who are incapable of giving a coherent talk in English or Arabic.

Oh, I forgot, I’m not supposed to say that. Perish the thought.