Chrome doesn't play wmv on websites

If you got troubles to play wmv movies direct in Chrome just put following line to console and restart chrome browser:

sudo apt-get install gecko-mediaplayer

Mysql GUI tools with LAMPP

When you run LAMPP in /opt this everything is coupled in one place. MySQL daemon puts the mysql socket file to following file:

/opt/lampp/var/mysql/mysql.sock

If you wanna run standard MySQL GUI tools like MySQL Administrator or MySQL Query Browser you should set up mentioned socket file in advanced details in connection manager. It will be work.