Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread Orlando Andico
Perl is a dirty language for lazy developers. And yes, the OO features are an ugly tack-on. That said, it is probably the most powerful language if you're looking at compactness of code. I spent almost my entire programming career in Perl, and I still look upon it fondly. It is a lazy hacker's bes

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread Ludwig Isaac Lim
Hi: > Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2008 11:05:54 +0800 > From: "Zak B. Elep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve > To: "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical Discussion List" > > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Par

Re: [plug] PHP + SQL Server

2008-06-19 Thread Orlando Andico
I must take my foot out of my mouth and put in a vote for FreeTDS. Oracle's SQL Developer product actually ships with jTDS (Java fork of FreeTDS) as part of the Migration Workbench. On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 7:27 PM, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cool! So which is better? ODBTP or Fr

Re: [plug] Wine-1.0 released!

2008-06-19 Thread Gabriel H. Mercado
yeah read about it. a pretty considerable development imo, that promises to shake things up everywhere, corporate and home. expect to hear and read a lot re this in the weeks to come, in particular re just how well it makes things work. Gary On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Pablo Manalastas <[

[plug] Wine-1.0 released!

2008-06-19 Thread Pablo Manalastas
This is now the real thing, not a release candidate. Get it from http://winehq.org/. Remember: version 1.0. Enjoy! Pablo Manalastas _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archi

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Ludwig Isaac Lim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Part of my job right now to maintain scripts written using Perl. I find > learning "advanced" > concepts like modules and objects a bit difficult (Ok, I might be subjective > due to the fact that > I need to learn i

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread pao p
Hi, It really depends on the person all I can say that you cant know all, until you studied it of course on the first we will find it difficult, but i found PERL very useful and one of my favorite programming languages. As you said "time". thanks - Original Message From: Ludwig

Re: [plug] CentOS Cacti Installation problem

2008-06-19 Thread Jagi Sarcilla
hi joyce, can you check on /etc/httpd/conf.d/cacti.conf ## Alias cacti "/var/www/cacti/" or alias cacti "/var/www/html/cacti" ### the error indicates that missing config to give you "/cacti" option in your url -- Jagi C. Sarcilla Airsoft Player _

[plug] configure VIP loopback in CentOS

2008-06-19 Thread Linux Cook
I'm trying to setup LB using Foundry. Anyone knows how to configure VIP loopback in CentOS? _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph

[plug] MySQL moves from Bitkeeper to Bazaar

2008-06-19 Thread Jerome Gotangco
http://blogs.mysql.com/kaj/2008/06/19/version-control-thanks-bitkeeper-welcome-bazaar/ Although Sun will still standardize on Mercurial, MySQL will be doing the Bazaar switch. -- Jerome _ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lis

Re: [plug] recovering cyrus imap inbox

2008-06-19 Thread jan gestre
Well just like I thought, it will take a miracle to undelete those inboxes. I feel sorry for that Tech Mark, it his ass who's on the line and to make things worst the hardware is about to fail, imagine a read speed of only 815KB/sec based on hdparm. Oh well... On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Mark

[plug] synonymous to securecrt

2008-06-19 Thread Nelson Serafica
I'm planning to use Fedora as my primary OS instead of Windows and retired Fedora as virtual machine in my laptop. But the hindrance is I have lots of entry in SecureCRT that uses Logon scripts (I believe it uses expect). Does anyone knows a Securecrt-like apps for any Linux variants preferably

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread rexonf
That's really how it is. When pressured to learn something in a short time, you just have to make do and learn in a haphazard manner. Later when you have the time, you can go through the docs at a slower (better) pace and really understand the material. On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 7:06 PM, Ludwig Is

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread Alvin Delagon
"I feel that maintaining Perl programs can be a tedious task (One thing I dislike about TMTOWTDI). Learning it can be a quite difficult too, given the myriad notations." - Maintaining any kind of software (written in any language) can be a difficult task. It just boils down on how the software was

Re: [plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread jumbz tayamen
hello i have some perl and other ebooks that i can upload. i just dont know where... ftp site? Ludwig Isaac Lim wrote: > Hi: > > Part of my job right now to maintain scripts written using Perl. I find > learning "advanced" > concepts like modules and objects a bit difficult (Ok, I might be s

[plug] Perl's Learning Curve

2008-06-19 Thread Ludwig Isaac Lim
Hi: Part of my job right now to maintain scripts written using Perl. I find learning "advanced" concepts like modules and objects a bit difficult (Ok, I might be subjective due to the fact that I need to learn it a short time). I feel that maintaining Perl programs can be a tedious task

Re: [plug] linux on the corporate desktop

2008-06-19 Thread Marvin Pascual
Cool! B-) On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:16 AM, John Peter Loh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > About two years ago, I saw a Pentium 4 server providing LTSP to about > 80 computers (mixture of 386 to Pentium MMXs) at a manufacturing > plant. They used OOo (not sure what version) and Thunderbird > primari

Re: [plug] linux on the corporate desktop

2008-06-19 Thread Orlando Andico
Oracle has an officially supported Linux desktop, the Linux OBI (Oracle Binary Image). It comes preconfigured with all necessary desktop apps and is based on OEL (RHEL derivative). Sadly, in spite of corporate efforts to encourage use of the Linux OBI, majority of users still use the Windows XP OB