I recently tried to boot up an old PHP based project, but it failed with the error:

Call to a member function query() on a non-object ... in pdo_driver.php

Looking at phpinfo() output, I saw that --enable-pdo was present but so too --without-pdo-mysql. Since this project depended on PDO / MySQL, it was clear this was the culprit.

I recently had to fight with an issue on a Windows 2012 Server with IIS 8, and a web site that kept on forcing the user to type in authentication credentials to access a PDF file located in a subdirectory.

I did the usual checks:

1. NTFS permissions to IUSR
2. Anonymous access allowed on the web site

See this earlier post.

I have not taken a huge amount of photos with my Chinese brand microscope during the time I owned it. Therefore a comparison is hard to make. I recently encountered the same algae (Asparagopsis taxiformis - Falkenbergia Stage / Sporophyte Stage) than I had in one of my first reef aquariums, so this presented a good test case to see just how much you get for the additional cost of a research grade microscope.

All the old photos were taken with a $500 Chinese brand microscope coupled with a $400 2.1MP Motic CCD. All new photos were taken with an Olympus BX53 microscope with UPlanSApo objectives and a Canon 600D camera. The old photos used bright field illumination, the new photos used DIC.

These polyps measure at most 4mm across.