Friday, March 26, 2010

Hilarious

I find this set of instructions very funny, from the kind folks at ITIS:
3. Installation instructions.

Windows Instructions

After downloading the ITIS MySQL zip file, that
file "itisMySQL111908.zip" will now reside on your
system as a Compressed (zipped) Folder.

Use WinZip or some other software to extract the
following 4 files from your downloaded ITIS zip file:
installdb.bat createdb.sql ITIS.sql ReadmeMySQL.txt

Use "My Computer" to go to where you have
extracted those 4 files.

On your Windows system, make sure that
you can run the MySQL software as the
MySQL user root on your PC.

If you can't run MySQL as the MySQL user root
on your PC then edit file "installdb.bat"
and replace root with your chosen MySQL user name.

Make sure that the MySQL Server is running on
your PC prior to double clicking on the icon.

Caution: When you install this new ITIS database
in MySQL on your PC, the SQL command to drop any
preexisting database called "itis" is first executed
before creating and loading the new "itis" database.

To install the ITIS database onto MySQL on your PC,
double click on the icon:
installdb.bat

Note: You will be prompted for your MySQL password after
clicking on the icon.
Be patient when waiting for the data to load into MySQL.
The loading of the data may take 2 minutes or more.

Linux Instructions

On Linux, execute the following command:
mysql -uroot -p < createdb.sql

Note: You may use a different MySQL user name other than root.

Mac OS X Instructions

On Mac OS X, execute the following command:
mysql -uroot -p < createdb.sql

Note: Again, you may use a different MySQL user name other than root.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

whats so hilarious about it ??

curran said...

Windows Instructions:
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Linux Instructions:
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Connor the Great said...

Yes, this is hilarious. I use Linux, but everyone else in my lab uses Windows and informs me on a near daily basis that Linux is difficult to use. Windows confuses the hell out of me. Its like computerized voodoo.

P.S. I used your site yesterday to shut down the X something and install CUDA. Thanks a mil!

curran said...

haha computerized voodoo indeed. Glad you could relate