Re: SQLite over MySQL?

2011-12-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, if you need MySQL, install MariaDB. If you need an actual database, consider whether SQLite will do, or whether you need more power, in which case, install PostgreSQL. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: SQLite over MySQL?

2011-06-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
that MySQL could fill nicely, as it had in the past. They overlap in the middle. MySQL should not be used for new starts. Or, as I say, Friends don't let friends use MySQL. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 mer...@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: Is there a True Boolean type in Perl?

2007-10-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
of the camel added this, but they were wrong. Please don't propogate the mistake. No edition of the camel that I was in charge of got this wrong. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix

Re: Leopard Perl version...

2007-10-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Borys == Borys Sobieski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Borys I just checked it on Leopard Developer Preview Build 9A559 and it is Borys Perl Ver. 5.8.8 This post is likely to be a violation of your NDA, is it not? Good luck getting your ADC renewed. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: Formatting uploaded images

2006-02-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
there anyway of doing it without a module? No, you do that on your computer, *before* you upload. So the ISP doesn't care about it, because it's your machine. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: Formatting uploaded images

2006-02-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
(Randal == (Randal L Schwartz) merlyn@stonehenge.com writes: (Randal No, you do that on your computer, *before* you upload. So the ISP (Randal doesn't care about it, because it's your machine. :) Argh. Always read *all* the message before posting. Ignore me. -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: xml::simple and does not map to Unicode infinite loop

2005-12-28 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
is presumed utf-8 unless otherwise stated. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite

Re: eval a string with a hash ref?

2005-11-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
on as a public example of how twisted code can get over the years. :) See the horrors of self_or_default, but only when properly prepared to flush your mind later. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl

Re: eval a string with a hash ref?

2005-11-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Ken == Ken Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ken You want: Ken eval $subroutine_name(\$hashref); Only if you also want slow and dangerous'. See the other answers in this thread for safer faster solutions. print Just another Perl hacker,; # the original -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: psync backup problems: suggestions?

2005-07-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
psync. I'm still using psync every day on Tiger. What are you saying? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: psync backup problems: suggestions?

2005-07-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
won't handle. Now to spend a few hours reverse engineering carbon-copy-cloner so that I can ensure that I'm copying only the stuff that doesn't get cleared on reboot anyway... -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http

Re: Flat file being Scrambled

2005-06-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mark == Mark Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark Hi, Mark Sorry, I don't understand. What's my breakage? Should I not use flock? You should use flock, but properly. :) google for site:stonehenge.com flock for many examples of how to do it right. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: Flat file being Scrambled

2005-06-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Mark == Mark Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Mark open (FILE, $pathtodatafile) || die (Cannot open file); Mark flock (FILE, 2); 0wn3d! That's your breakage. Once in a blue mooon, you'll kill your entire data this way. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
wednesday. It'll be interesting to see if the comments in the room reflect the desire for Perl-wired Cocoa apps or not. In fact, the first thing I thought after hearing about the x86 announcement was oooh, I hope CamelBones continues to work!. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services

Re: Sorting a more efficient way

2005-03-10 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
} @current_deals; Just another sorting expert, :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. And of course Emacs can do this as well. For a very long time. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 merlyn@stonehenge.com URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
set a keyboard shortcut to run scripts check their Ian syntax, and you can write filters and other scripts in perl. Pretty Ian sweet for a free product. Again, if you keep pushing free, I'm going to say emacs. :) Emacs has all that. And more. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: TextWrangler

2005-01-20 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Chris == Chris Nandor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Chris And it handles all the same Perl stuff as its bigger sibling: syntax Chris coloring, running scripts, filters, debugging, viewing POD, etc. Oh, just like Carbonized Emacs? :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: [OT] Text Editor for OSX

2004-10-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
third-party books as well. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl

Re: [OT] Text Editor for OSX

2004-10-04 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
for your needs than BBEdit? Hell, Emacs is Free. How long do you have to work to write an editor better than emacs, making no money doing it? :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix

Re: Basic question

2004-05-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. The #! line does *not* look at PATH. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment

Re: psync is backing up files that I don't use

2004-05-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
? Unfortunately, symbolic links on an HFS+ filesystem always come back with a mod-time of now, so the timestamp is useless. psync seems to have to always transfer every symbolic link every time. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: [OT] slice vs. splice

2004-04-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
5.8.4-rc2 docs: http://search.cpan.org/~nwclark/perl-5.8.4-RC2/pod/perldata.pod#Slices it's still firmly in there. I suspect it won't ever go away. There's slice notation already in Perl6. Slices are too useful to get rid of. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: ANNOUNCE: Affrus 1.0 - a Perl Debugger

2004-03-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: ANNOUNCE: Affrus 1.0 - a Perl Debugger

2004-03-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
spam. It's unwanted. But a concession for the 4-lines of a .sig block has always been granted. Hence, my contact info. Now, if I repeatedly posted null messages just so that my .sig was in everyone's faces, I would get pulled. Yes, it's that simple. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: ANNOUNCE: Affrus 1.0 - a Perl Debugger

2004-03-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
.) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: ANNOUNCE: Affrus 1.0 - a Perl Debugger

2004-03-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
rules, and continue to object to such postings until being told otherwise by someone with authority. Without such a stand, we enter a slippery slope. It's the same reason I permit *no* commercial postings to comp.lang.perl.announce. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: Perl/TK (Was: ANNOUNCE: Affrus 1.0 - a Perl Debugger

2004-03-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
-Dprefix=/opt/perl/snap -Dlocincpth=/sw/include -Dloclibpth=/sw/lib [EMAIL PROTECTED] But beware, I'm installing into /opt/perl/snap (for snapshots). -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: ANNOUNCE: Affrus 1.0 - a Perl Debugger

2004-03-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, make sure google reads it, and send it to the various OSX search engines. Just like any other commercial product. That there is not a *commercial* announce list for Perl OSX is not my problem. Nor would I subscribe to such a list. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Tk::Zinc

2004-02-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Anyone gotten Tk::Zinc to build on OSX? It doesn't built for me... no matter what options I give it, it wants to include GL/mumble.h, which I don't have anywhere. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: Using on non-filehandles

2003-10-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
could make the same argument for HTML::Mason as well.) Please, carefully consider what you're giving up by starting from scratch. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: XML::LibXML on Jaguar?

2003-03-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Perl5.8.0 instead. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, the this isn't acceptable was Puneet's reposting of my private mail to the list, not the fact that I sent a private message. Correct? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical

Re: A Wheeler by anyother name...

2003-03-14 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Puneet == Puneet Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Puneet Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Puneet == Puneet Kishor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Puneet I was looking for material on (justifying) Opensource. Besides the Puneet usual suspects (Tim Oh Really and the Gnu and FSF folks), If that's meant

Gtk 0.7008 doesn't build on Darwin/OSX

2003-03-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
are building, or give an explicit path with -o. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Evil undocumented Apple commands (was Re: Non-Perl but baffling question)

2003-02-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
call was documented. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl

Re: OT: macosx list?

2003-02-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
subscribed to the first three lists at http://www.omnigroup.com/developer/mailinglists/, and they seem to be fairly good and broadly served by experts. Flame wars erupt about every two weeks, and the moderator is proactive. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777

Re: Mac OS X client and #perl

2003-01-24 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Brad == Brad Hughes brad writes: Brad Semi-off topic... What IRC client are people here using, and Brad which IRC servers do perl folk inhabit? irc.el :) (IRC inside gnu emacs) and #perl on rhizo -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: XML-LibXML

2003-01-17 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
PROTECTED] [localhost:~] merlyn% So, I have 2.4.30 working just fine. Fink Rules. Get Fink. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc

Re: Dec 2002 Dev Tools

2002-12-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
theatre, I always pick the furthest door, figuring that my ease of finding a decent seat near the aisle that's less chosen is more likely. Most people seem lazy. That's good for Perl. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Gtk broken on darwin

2002-12-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
in the current directory (which breaks it for non-darwin, I suspect :). I'm cc'ing the Perl-on-OSX list so that others can be aware as things are being tested on and ported to OSX. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: Darwin darwin or darwin6.0

2002-11-18 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
instead. It's Free. It's Easy. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment

Re: CPAN now

2002-10-27 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
the next time I run Sherm cpan - I don't know why. Because it's supposed to work that way. If you want to make them permanent, o conf commit. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
otherwise), and the heros of the book happened upon it. Hard to Bradley explain, read the books by Douglas Adams and wave your towel. Explained better than I could. Thanks! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: arbitrarily complex variables

2002-09-25 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
); ... print pre.encode_entities(Dumper($HoHoHo))./pre; Unless you happen to be blessed with no less-thans or ampersands in your data. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
of a string that appears only in hex, for example. And as we saw in this thread, the phrase I nearly always start my programs with these lines was enough to give me away on this one. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
of the 150+ articles I've written, nor any of the books I've done for O'Reilly. And yet my name is on all of them. A work-for-hire means it's not yours anymore. It's up to the contract to decide whether you're a writer or a ghostwriter. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
this: set output_file to (path to temporary items folder as string) fetch_headlines.html output_file in the AS editor: Randal800:private:tmp:501:Temporary Items:fetch_headlines.html See. Just fine. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
let me know! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: AppleScript to Perl w/SOAP

2002-09-21 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
' previous one on Ken installing 5.8.0) generally written by outside people? Dunno. I know mine was written by me. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical

one try at backup down, more to go, I hope

2002-07-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
before. So, now I guess I'll order Restrospect 5 and hope it gets here quickly, since I'm supposed to be on my new laptop by the weekend. :( And I hope *that* works. Just sign me frustrated, -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: about .command and .term

2002-07-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
instructions! Where is this documented? That's part of what frustrates me the most about OSX. It's like OS9... people pass around folklore instead of being able to just say man foo as on real unix to read the whole story. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777

Re: looking for backup solution...

2002-07-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
if mirroring to an existing archive. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: looking for backup solution...

2002-07-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
as possible to the original disk. Oh, and not copy EVERY ONE of the 40G of files everytime I want to backup. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing

Re: looking for backup solution...

2002-07-11 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
in Carbon Copy Cloner. See http://www.bombich.com/mactips/image.html for the details. I don't see anything in psync that does all the exceptions noted there. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix

Re: 5.8.0 RC 1/2

2002-06-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Iudicium == Iudicium Ferat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Iudicium On Friday, June 21, 2002, at 08:10 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Yes, bleedperl for me worked, even with the latest Apache and mod_perl. Iudicium Even with the *standard* Perl/mod_perl that ships/updates with 10.1.5? No. I

Re: FYI: Successful Install of Perl 5.8.0 RC 1 + Apache 2.0.36 + ModPerl-2.0 on OSX 10.1.4

2002-06-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, but there's already one, so it's done! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment

Re: FYI: Successful Install of Perl 5.8.0 RC 1 + Apache 2.0.36 + ModPerl-2.0 on OSX 10.1.4

2002-06-13 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
latest releases of things like Illustrator and so on) won't install. Durn. Stupid Adobe. Compatible with OSX on the box, but it isn't. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: Getting the path of a running process from OS X Perl

2002-05-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
. If not, this is simpler: my $path = `osascript -e 'tell application Finder to get name of application file id CWIE'`; -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy

Re: Getting the path of a running process from OS X Perl

2002-05-12 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
understand AppleScript entirely yet, but isn't that the same as: system osascript, -e, 'tell application file id CWIE to open'; ? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

get_statfs with Inline::C

2002-04-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open-enrollment Perl training!

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Bill == Bill -Sx- Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Merlyn, you must have thought they were 'enjoyable' as well, once upon a Bill time... Yes, and seeing the damage that is done, I've since repented. I now sell code review services as my atonement. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge

Re: Documentation Issues - was Re: [Way OT] mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-15 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
(provided you already program some other algorithmic language)?. It matches what we teach in class, so we're pretty confident about amount and pace. Now, the next step would be to write a book that is how to spend your *second* 40 hours with Perl :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting

Re: PAUSE bug discovered?

2002-03-07 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
from the clipboard as data even in a textfield (not textarea), and thus the form data is corrupted in an unexpected way. Agreed, that the PAUSE script should be blocking that. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http

Re: SUCCESS: libapreq working in Mac OS X

2002-02-22 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
, and then loaded that, I could not load any other .so's from there, making all XS modules fail. So having an .so call an .so might not work. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

psync fails with 5.7.2

2002-02-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
% okay. 8/29 subtests failed, 72.41% okay. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: psync fails with 5.7.2

2002-02-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
tree. What more permission is needed? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc. See PerlTraining.Stonehenge.com for onsite and open

Re: h2ph problems

2002-02-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
needs to be retired. Actually, that can usually be replaced by use Socket. Actually, that can usually be edited to use IO::Socket::INet. Actually, that can usually be rewritten to use Net::* instead. :-) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: psync fails with 5.7.2

2002-02-05 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
;'). Are you testing on UFS or HFS+? I'm on UFS. It also leaves behind a dummy file that is locked, that I couldn't figure out how to unlock using your tools (psetfinfo has very broken docs) but luckily I had FileBuddy-X around to fix. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc

Re: Problems compiling 5.6.1 on MacOSX 10.1.2

2002-01-26 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
tried to take the portion of the distro for GDBM and manually compile/install it later. You had to re-./configure and build the entire distro again. That may have been fixed, but I'm still suspicious. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to get Perl/ImageMagick working on X.1 ?

2001-11-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
=print Content-type: image/gif\n\n$image; =86= =87=@times = map { $_ - shift @times } time, times; =88=printf STDERR buttonmaker: real=%d user=%.2f sys=%.2f\n, @times; -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503

mod_perl and apache - the final chapter

2001-11-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Apache::Template to work (which installs new config directives) and the whole shebang. Cool cool. -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc

setuid root hole... oops!

2001-10-16 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
in as root. This apparently is the case with all setuid root applications... Not good heh heh. Apple hasn't learned what fork does. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security

Re: looking for backup solution - PERL + AppleScript?

2001-10-09 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
John == John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Well, if you could write an XS module that hooks into the same John APIs that the Finder is using... :) Has anyone tried Inline::C on OSX yet? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution

2001-10-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
mechanism when you hose one. Hmm. Nice to know for my desktop machine when I get one eventually. Not very nice for my laptop. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting

Re: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution

2001-10-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Elaine == Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elaine Randal L. Schwartz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: Elaine * Elaine *So what are other people doing? Do I continue using retrospect, and Elaine *figure out some way to relink all the broken links? Perhaps using Elaine *macperl? Elaine

Re: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution

2001-10-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Elaine == Elaine -HFB- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elaine Randal L. Schwartz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: Elaine * Elaine *Unless tar's been modified, it won't know about resource forks, and Elaine *it doesn't do incremental copies in any case. From what I could Elaine *gather over

Re: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution

2001-10-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
it might be the right solution, but I can't just drop an image on it as the instructions said, so I'm confused again. :( -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical

Re: slightly off topic - looking for backup solution

2001-10-08 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Elaine == Elaine -Hfb- Ashton [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elaine Randal L. Schwartz [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] quoth: Elaine * Elaine *Elaine , the beta of Retrospect for OS X Elaine * Elaine *at many hundreds of dollars Elaine You already use Retrospect and Norton plans to ship the Norton Elaine

Re: Mac OS X 10.1: Now with extra compiling woes!

2001-10-03 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
snipped, and some output trimmed): I built 5.7.2 and got roughly the same rough spots. Here's the invocation line: % ./Configure -ders -Dprefix=~ -Dfirstmakefile=GNUmakefile -Dusedevel -Dldflags=-flat_namespace But I'm excited by the fact that it's working this far. :) -- Randal L. Schwartz

Re: Mac OS X 10.1: Now with extra compiling woes!

2001-09-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
site), and I couldn't even compile hello_world.c (error during link). Is there some place to get the 10.1 developer tools, perhaps by downloading some part of Darwin? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com

Re: Mac OS X 10.1: Now with extra compiling woes!

2001-09-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Kee == Kee Hinckley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Kee At 3:20 PM -0700 9/29/01, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: I installed 10.0.1, the 10.0 developer tools, then 10.1 (I don't have the 10.1 developer tools, and they're not available from Apple's download site), and I couldn't even compile

Re: Mac OS X 10.1: Now with extra compiling woes!

2001-09-29 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
Jim == Jim Cooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jim How about a discussion about what if perl 5.6.1 might not compile Jim correctly on the upcoming release of MACOSX 10.1? Has anyone confirmed or denied it, now that 10.1 is gold? -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1

Re: List admin

2001-07-23 Thread Randal L. Schwartz
already made it clear that no perl.org mailing list will munge the reply-to. Thank you, Ask! -- Randal L. Schwartz - Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc. - +1 503 777 0095 [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL:http://www.stonehenge.com/merlyn/ Perl/Unix/security consulting, Technical writing, Comedy, etc. etc