Integrating the differential equation of a Bouc-Wen model of hysteresis is very easy using Mathematica. In Mathematica 9, some additional checks prevent NDSolve[ ] from integrating the equation; the error message is NDSolve::smpf: Failure to project onto the discontinuity surface when computing Filippov continuation at time 0.  We can create a version-aware code to take into account this; if the Mathematica version is greater than 8, then remove DiscontinuityProcessing method.

I use a local installation of MySQL to develop my sites, and I often write small programs to manipulate the database directly. Everything works ok locally, but when I try to do the same thing in the remote MySQL installation, I get the error Unable to connect to any of the specified MySQL hosts.