Re: OT Re: Windows98: Command prompt?
I thought this was a linux list... Go figure. Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: OT Re: Windows98: Command prompt?
as a MS beta-tester OT being allowed: The number of bugs in a program is roughly proportional to the length of the source code (Rather than being proportional to the program's functionality). Randel L. Schwartz, Learning Perl, 3rd Edition, O'Reilly, 2001 ;-) Take it easy Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
PostgreSQL and Pg-DBD (Perl module used to access PostgreSQL)
Hello! Installing Postgresql with the Pg DBD module gave me a few problems, so I thought I would share an installation method that worked for me across a couple of distro's. Here is how I did it: A.) Install the following RPM packages: Development/Libraries/Perl: perl-DBI Applications/Databases: all postgresql modules Development Libraries: postgresql-devl B.) Setup directories and paths for PostgreSQL: Open a terminal and su as root Setup disk directory for your db: mkdir /var/lib/pgsql/data chown postgres /var/lib/pgsql/data Add PostgreSQL to the path by inserting the following statement: /usr/bin/psql into the PATH statement located in /etc/profile.local C.) Initialize the PostgreSQL database, start the PostgreSQL daemon, and test the newly installed database system: /usr/local/pgsql/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/pgsql/data rcpostgresql start Quick-test the server using the boiler plate test package that ships with PostgreSQL: su postgres psql -d template1 Use the \q command to exit psql Setup another db user: createuser user (Make sure it matches an existing Linux user...) Questions PostgreSQL asks when you run createuser and the answers: Shall the new user be able to create databases? (y/n) y Shall the new user be able to create new users? (y/n) n Note: SuSE 7.3, SuSe 7.2 as well as RedHat Version X.anything-recent all appear to have a Pg DBD that ship with the afore mentioned products, but I could not get them to work Go figure. So... Do this: D.) Verify the existence of the following on your system. They are required for the Perl-DB: /usr/include/pgsql/libpq-fe.h /usr/lib/libpq.so Download DBD::Pg from http://www.CPAN.org . Explode and examine the downloaded components: su as the user you setup for db access. Do *NOT* su as root! Explode DBD-Pg-1.01.tar.gz into your home directory directory. Read the README file. *Really...* Prepare your system for the build process: PATH=.:$PATH export POSTGRES_INCLUDE=/usr/include/pgsql export POSTGRES_LIB=/usr/lib Build the module: perl Makefile.PL make Make sure you have no errors from the make. make test Make sure you only recieved ok statements from the make test. install Perl-DB: su as root make install YMMV, but it worked for me as described above on three different distro's. Best Peck ___ Linux-users mailing list Archives, Digests, etc at http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)
Richard Thompson wrote: First, through job experience (only currently employed as a police officer of 20 years experience) and through life experience I have a much better working knowledge of these issues that you credit me with. I assure you, I have done my research - for longer than some of the members of this list have been alive. Second - Bin ladin is a businessman. He has actual, physical business interests and stock investments which produce large amounts of money. He is the first businessman terrorist. I made no comment on where he got his startup funds - that was irrelevent, and still is. Bin Ladin is in his 40's. He has not actively participated in *any* of his business interests in 15 years. Thirdly - it doesn't matter where he is persona non-grata. He is not subject to control by the threat of his sponsor government cutting off his funds. He can afford to hide anywhere he needs to. Afghanistan works for now, other places might work, if less well, but it isn't as simple a matter as a particular state pulling his strings. He cannot purchase any geographic location of his choosing. I'd like to see him attempt to set up shop anywhere in North or South America, Western Europe or for that matter OZ. Only those nations who agree with and support his politics are involved with him. This is a very different sort of war, with a very different sort of enemy, in a very different world than even our President's father commanded. Technically, it is know as asymetric warfare. The last asymetric war the US was involved in was the war against the Barbary Pirates during Thomas Jefferson's presidency. Even then, Jefferson and others realized they could not directly defeat an asymetric enemy... Therefore, he defeated the enemy indirectly by removing all support of any type or kind (Which is why he sent the Navy and the Marines to Tripoli, Libya all those years ago). I stick by my statement that the current Afgan government as well as all other governments who participate in state sponsored terrorism must be removed from the face of the earth. If they are not, the cost of having them around will consistantly rise. Peck ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
Re: Am immodest proposal (forgive me, Mr. Swift)
This is wrong. Bin Ladin is a businessman, pal. Sorry pal. Do a little research and you will find that Bin Ladin has never worked a day in his life. He is the son of one of wealthiest Saudi's of the 20th century. His father, who *actually* was a businessman, was first involved in the oil business and later in international banking. Bin Ladin's entire fortune is the result of another mans efforts... His father's. Further, Bin Ladin is personanongrata (sp?) in Saudi Arabia even though he has a huge following in Saudi (As well as the rest of the Arab world). Also, the Saudi Royal Family is terrifed of the bastard... He has a lot more political and military power than you want to give him credit for. Even if it were true that state sponsored terrorism was the sole, or even the most important, source of funding, it must have electronic access to the world. Where the hell do you think the money came from or do you think they just put the whole operation on their VISA card...?... Also, even in the most remote, war torn areas of the world there is access to almost all forms of electronic communication. One other thing: The moment these people plop this war into your front yard you'll be singing a different tune. My own opinion is (And I really could care less what others think of it) smoke the Taliban government and all those who support it and let God sort them out. I certainly won't bother. M. Peck Dickens ___ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc -http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
