Re: [Boston.pm] Tomorrow: Tech Meeting, Tues 11/10 : Perl 6

+1 -F Sent from my iPhone > On Nov 9, 2015, at 7:05 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: > >> On 11/09/2015 01:58 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: >> November Next Meeting: 2nd Tuesday >> Autumn Theme: Perl 6 for Xmas​[image: external image camelia-logo.png] >> Get Ready To PartyTue Nov 10 2015

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting, Tuesday, Aug 11

Unfortunately, I won’t be in this here town on the 11th :/ See you in the Perlsphere Ronald! -F On Aug 3, 2015, at 10:10 AM, Morse, Richard E.,MGH remo...@mgh.harvard.edu wrote: Hi! I’ll be there! Ricky On Jul 26, 2015, at 12:12 PM, Ronald J Kimball r...@tamias.net wrote: As Uri

[Boston.pm] SD Card (in)Security

Hello Fellow Perl Mongers, I gave a 10-minute interview at OSCON describing the final version of the SD card hacks we described: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo-Qug3fZM0index=47list=PL055Epbe6d5YhDchEvY3O4nIuSLYyrx7K I will post a link to the talk slides once they are up on the site.

Re: [Boston.pm] ver 5.20 of perl?

+1 on PerlBrew. By the way, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS's system Perl is 5.18. RHEL 7 should have Perl 5.16 if the Fedora 19 release it was forked from was not altered. Bottom line, looks like system Perl is getting younger. Not upgradable perhaps, but still something. Best-F Sent from my iPhone On

[Boston.pm] Writing Readable, Maintainable Perl - From O'Reilly's blog

http://programming.oreilly.com/2013/12/can-one-write-readable-and-maintainable-perl.html Best -F _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C

Re: [Boston.pm] audio processing with perl

That looks like great material for a Boston.PM talk. There was a very nice audio processing talk (in Python) at OSCON this year. FFT and auditory examples combined. Thanks -F On Nov 22, 2013, at 4:25 PM, js js0...@gmail.com wrote: On 11/21/2013 17:31, Adam Russell wrote: So, can anyone

Re: [Boston.pm] Perl community The Rising Costs of Aging Perlers

On 07/23/2013 11:02 AM, Jan Jackson wrote: However, when our previous Perl instructor moved to New Hampshire to run an organic farm, there was no one interested in taking over the class, so it ended, and Perl hasn't been taught at HES for some years now. I did submit a proposal to take over

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech Meeting: Embedded Perl with Federico

On Apr 11, 2013, at 12:02 AM, Bob Rogers rogers-...@rgrjr.dyndns.org wrote: From: Greg Londonem...@greglondon.com Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 23:18:12 -0400 I have no idea what the signaling looks like on that 4wire connector between the platters and controller electronics, but it would

[Boston.pm] New Xkcd feaaturing Perl

http://www.xkcd.org/1171/ Best -F _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifredi at acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C ___ Boston-pm mailing list

[Boston.pm] Perl renaissance

Hello Boston PM Perl renaissance, Paul fenwick's talk at Linux.conf.au is now online. Worth watching while you wait for the governor to get your street plowed this weekend: http://mirror.linux.org.au/linux.conf.au/2013/mp4/The_Perl_Renaissance.mp4 Best -F

Re: [Boston.pm] February Meeting 2/12 early reminder - We critique's Uri's Code for a change :-)

Will be there. ..and Will practice the heckling in advance! Best -F On Feb 9, 2013, at 1:16 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Our Topic is how to release a module to CPAN. Uri will show us how his old to him new to CPAN module is packaged to go. This is our chance to heckle Uri. Be there ! It's fun

Re: [Boston.pm] distributed computing in dynamic languages

On May 4, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: it is much easier than most people realize. the key is a simple message passing api. that allows for local or remote calls without changing the code. then you can do your work in one process or distributed with little extra help. this is a

Re: [Boston.pm] distributed computing in dynamic languages

(and, yes, I am cleaning my mail queue at 3 am) Best -F On Aug 2, 2012, at 3:13 AM, Federico Lucifredi wrote: On May 4, 2012, at 2:41 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: it is much easier than most people realize. the key is a simple message passing api. that allows for local or remote calls without

[Boston.pm] distributed computing in dynamic languages

Hello Mongers, Pragmatic Programmers has just announced a book on distributed programming in Ruby. Somewhat the possibility never occurred to me :) I am wondering, is there some obvious reason, like a well-structured library or language property, that makes one of the dynamic languages a

[Boston.pm] Fwd: [pm_groups] Bulk Orders (of Modern Perl) for User Groups

This might be interesting for your groups: http://www.modernperlbooks.com/mt/2012/03/bulk-orders-for-user-groups.html We need to hit 5 orders to make a UG order of Modern Perl, 2012 edition - 23$ instead of 35$. Bill, myself and I volunteered, and we need a few more takers! Any others? Best

[Boston.pm] Perl titles on Sale at O'Reilly

I just thought I would share this: http://shop.oreilly.com/category/deals/perl-programming-power.do?imm_mid=0807b4cmp=em-orm-books-videos-perl-owo-elist-splitB-resend Best -Federico _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish (Federico L.

[Boston.pm] The second P

Okay guys, I haven't gotten a definite answer on this when I asked a couple of years back, so I'l ask again - flog me as you may :) I have a need to properly learn a certain other P language, and I do not mean PHP either. For Perl, my favorite concise summary is the first chapter of

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting TONIGHT - new Web bug affects multiple languages, but not Perl

Thanks for giving it, it was quite interesting! Best -F On Jan 15, 2012, at 9:00 PM, David Larochelle wrote: Thanks to everyone who came to my talk on Tuesday. I put a copy of the slides online here:

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

we probably don't need a wiki. Content management ahoy! Just my 5 cents. Best-F On Jan 11, 2012, at 9:50 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Tom Metro tmetro-boston...@vl.com wrote: I'll reiterate a prior recommendation to use Wikispaces. It's been working fine for BLU

Re: [Boston.pm] Tech meeting TONIGHT - new Web bug affects multiple languages, but not Perl

will be there. Best -F On Jan 10, 2012, at 1:09 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: On 01/10/2012 09:22 AM, Bill Ricker wrote: Sean is acting facilitator for this session, so please RSVP to the main list boston...@pm.org i am attending. ain't seen much response yet. will there be pizza (free or

Re: [Boston.pm] RSVP: Tech meeting TONIGHT

On Jan 10, 2012, at 11:39 AM, Sean Quinlan wrote: http://www.nruns.com/_downloads/advisory28122011.pdf CVE-2011-4885 Phuket property http://www.phuketproperty.com/ Reported 2003 I think this bug should be rather called the Dynamic Language Vulnerability, but Phucket Property certainly gives

Re: [Boston.pm] Wiki Spam

On Jan 10, 2012, at 3:15 PM, Ronald J Kimball wrote: Worse than that: this was copied from our Wiki, which has been very heavily hit with wiki spam again. Hrm. I Tried to clean up, someone please double-check me. Best -Federico _ -- 'Problem' is a

[Boston.pm] Linting for Domain Languages

Hello Perl Mongers, I am thinking of playing around with the idea of Linting the install scripts used for automated Linux deployment. For KickStart, there is pyKickStart which could be a base to go on (not looked at it yet). For AutoYaST, it is a trivial problem (it's XML), so as long as I

Re: [Boston.pm] interested in damian training?

There is a sixth person interested here :) And I actually have a tad of personal training budget to put where my mouth is, if that ballpark number is close. Best -F On Aug 10, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Philip Durbin wrote: On 08/09/2011 06:36 PM, Uri Guttman wrote: if you or your perl shop would

Re: [Boston.pm] latest file::slurp for testing

Hello Uri, It built, tested and installed all right on openSUSE 11.2 on my laptop, nothing amiss to report. Reading the article in extras, which I liked quite a bit by the way, I noticed one thing missing: slurping configuration has a few extra details (e.g. comments), it would be nice if you

Re: [Boston.pm] profiling memory usage

I haven't tried this, but I have been mulling it for some time: using Dtrace to debug Perl. Of course, you'd have to be on *BSD or OS-X (or Soracle), But if that's Ok, using runtime probes seems very promising for the memory leak/out of memory problem area. I saw a good tutorial at OSCON on

Re: [Boston.pm] let's bring damian here

Count me in -F Greg London wrote: I'd be willing to chip in some money. Greg hi all, when damian conway has come to boston before he has given some amazing talks which bring out massive numbers of boston perl mongers. he has come here only when he had training gigs and that isn't

Re: [Boston.pm] Election day too Re: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6 MIT 9/14 E51 7pm

See you there -F Bill Ricker wrote: In Mass this Tuesday is Primary Election day too. Polls will close during the meeting so allow time to vote earlier in the day. On 9/8/10, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6

Re: [Boston.pm] Election day too Re: Rakudo Star - a useful, usable, 'early adopter's distribution of Perl 6 MIT 9/14 E51 7pm

LOL - yikes, sorry, did not realize I mass replied :) -F On Sep 13, 2010, at 18:48, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: FL == Federico Lucifredi flucifr...@acm.org writes: FL See you there -F aolME TOO!!/aol uri -- Uri Guttman -- u...@stemsystems.com http

Re: [Boston.pm] rakudo cheatsheet

How many do you want? Best-Federico On Jul 27, 2010, at 20:46, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote: here is the link for the perl 6 cheatsheet. as suggested in the post, we should print a bunch of these for the meeting.

[Boston.pm] Perl at OSCON

Hello Fellow Mongers, we knew about Damian's cancellation due to family news at our last group meeting, but yesterday friend of Boston.pm brian d foy also begged out (he apparently had some last-minute surprise that sent him directly to the ER...). So, we are less Perl-y than usual here! It

Re: [Boston.pm] Mac scripting questions

On 5/14/10 5:20 PM, Richard Morse wrote: One caveat; it is not necessarily the case that an application will reload its defaults while running. You are 100% right, and iCal positively does not. However, I do tend to shutdown iCal and this appears to timely affect the background notifications,

[Boston.pm] Mac scripting questions

Following up from yesterday's discussion on the speaker script disabling all annoyances, I was able to build a recording with Automator, and I was also able to find a script going about it the clickety-way: - Open this Scriplet in your Editor: tell application iCal to

[Boston.pm] O'Reilly School of technology: Perl I

Here is the discount code about the course Uri was mentioning. Looks like the cert will be 4 modules, to be published in 2010. The discount is, for some reason, still working as best I can tell. It is supposed to have expired 3/5... technology :) Best -F --- If you would like

Re: [Boston.pm] ConfigObj, Config::Std, [PBP]

On 3/2/10 9:55 PM, Bill Ricker wrote: This is based on a very fuzzy remembrance of module source-code deep-dive at the Arlington masterclass (in which we blew Mac video dongle with winter static in the rented sweatshop). hehe - I remember that. Sweatshop, tho !? :-P Best -F --

[Boston.pm] ConfigObj

Just happened upon ConfigObj http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html#introduction As someone more inclined to do Perl than that other language, I would appreciate pointers to similar file format round-trippers, not just for ini but for other common formats. Federico PS: this could be

Re: [Boston.pm] I didn't realize that some of Git is conceptually based on early work by Sean Quinlan!

Identity theft Tuesday complete with DNA sequencing and cloning? More seriously, I had wondered if you two were one myself. Best -F Sean Quinlan wrote: Damn, and I sounded so cool for a minute there! ;) On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 11:03 PM, Chris Devers chris.dev...@gmail.comwrote: On

Re: [Boston.pm] (somewhat OT) question on job levels

Tom Metro wrote: Adam Russell wrote: I am trying to help a friend find gainful employment. To that end I have been helping him sift through job listings. Sift seems to imply that there are a lot. :-) I have noticed is that my understanding of job levels is somewhat off. For example, I

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

Matthew J Brooks wrote: But then that got me thinking... How about a Camel Book Toss? ;) Basically, whoever can toss their copy of Programming Perl the farthest [...] Heathen! Best-F -- _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

Steve Scaffidi wrote: [...] I actually *do* own a copy of Programming Python which I'd be *happy* to sacrifice, um, *offer* for this worthy cause! That book weighs a ton, and it was next to useless to me when I learned and worked with Python last year. I actually had the same thought

Re: [Boston.pm] schwag for next meeting

As one of the reviewers for Automating System Administration with Perl, I can only rabidly recommend the work as some of the best I have seen lately on both subjects (Perl and System Administration). Best-F Uri Guttman wrote: hi all, o'reilly sent me some new books to give out at our next

Re: [Boston.pm] (somewhat OT) question on job levels

Bill Ricker wrote: (yes, that makes me a unix grey beard) We already knew of your secret identity! Best -F -- _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi) - flucifr...@acm.org - GnuPG 0x4A73884C

Re: [Boston.pm] Hacking the WD Mybook 2 with Perl

of hackers doing this, but I wanted mine to have a certain detail and so some scripting here and there was required to make it happen - obviously in Perl. I see the July 2009 issue of Linux Journal includes the article Hacking Your Portable Linux Server by Federico Lucifredi. Congratulations

Re: [Boston.pm] XUL outline or ppt : Larry's MIT talk

Ricker, William wrote: So the reason why I like the idea of these systems based on XUL is that they are web-friendly, there is a single format for everyone, Good and I can just type down the text and it gets aligned for me. What tool are you looking at? (The raw xul makes

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

Sartak wrote: On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Stephen Jarjoura st...@runester.com wrote: I enjoyed the great deal of humor, including the inside jokes. And, if there were 120..150 people present, then that's also the approximate card count for his slide deck. He actually had nearly 500

Re: [Boston.pm] Larry's MIT talk

Ricker, William wrote: He actually had nearly 500 slides. And all in XUL, allegedly :-) There are a couple Perl based tools to generate Xul slideshows from an outline. I hope he used one of those, would like to know which. Probably can find out with google-fu, we won't be the first to

Re: [Boston.pm] official event page for larry's talk

Uri Guttman wrote: sipb finally sent me a url for the official event with larry's talk. spread this url around and stop asking me about it! :) http://events.mit.edu/event.html?id=10548538date=2009/4/1 uri I also got an official announcement from the HCS gang: HCS is inviting

Re: [Boston.pm] Fwd: [abcd] Can anyone give me details on Larry Wall at the Science Center on 3/31?

Nice to have confirmation - the announcement I had did not include the title, although it would have been interesting if Larry were to give different talks :) Best -F Bill Ricker wrote: Thanks for the forward, that confirms the topic is same as the next day's talk at MIT. Bill On

[Boston.pm] challenge: Python one-liner

Hello guys, I just ran into this cute trick: python -m SimpleHTTPServer serves the current dir out on port 8000: spaceman:bin lucifred$ python -m SimpleHTTPServer Serving HTTP on 0.0.0.0 port 8000 ... localhost - - [20/Mar/2009 14:32:55] code 404, message File not found localhost - -

Re: [Boston.pm] challenge: Python one-liner

Charlie wrote: I'd call that a 0 liner. Which makes it an installer challenge, not a programming challenge. What's the point? It is just a clever hack to transfer files in a pinch. Best-F Original message Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 14:36:42 -0400 From: Federico Lucifredi

Re: [Boston.pm] challenge: Python one-liner

Ricker, William wrote: # python -m SimpleHTTPServer serves the current dir out on port 8000: So Python ships with a one-line security breach? I can confirm that sir :) Best -F -- _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish (Federico

[Boston.pm] [Fwd: [HCS] Larry Wall - Inventor of Perl - on Tuesday 3/31]

Larry will be speaking in Harvard's Science Center D, 5:30 pm on Tuesday 3/31. This is one of the largest amphitheater classes Harvard has, so I politely suggest the local Perl Monger chapter help fill it up :-) What else to say? read the HCS announcement in attach if you need to know more :)

Re: [Boston.pm] [Fwd: [HCS] Larry Wall - Inventor of Perl - onTuesday 3/31]

Uri Guttman wrote: i just called sipb and they confirmed the talk. it is not up on their site yet (and may not be ever, they don't sponsor talks too often). april 1, 4:30pm room 34-101 i should be able to make it there. and that leaves time for a dinner afterwards. but i bet sipb is going

Re: [Boston.pm] Git workshop for April

Shiny ponies! I like those! Will be there if I do not get booked for some exotic locale like Provo, UT. Best -F Steve Scaffidi wrote: Since the March meeting is almost upon us, I just wanted to start discussion on what people would like to do vis-a-vis git. My idea is pretty simple - I

Re: [Boston.pm] debugging CPAN Shell

Bill Ricker wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: And isn't a WD Mybook a hard drive? with a linux to interface between the disk and the USb apparently, which is why he's presenting his use of Perl on whis customization to Boston.PM in March. Even

Re: [Boston.pm] debugging CPAN Shell

David Golden wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Federico Lucifredi flucifr...@acm.org mailto:flucifr...@acm.org wrote: Hello Gents, I am trying to run the CPAN shell in a WD Mybook II (29 MB of Ram). It hangs ignominiously. What's your 'perl -V' output? What version

Re: [Boston.pm] debugging CPAN Shell

David Cantrell wrote: On Mon, Feb 02, 2009 at 11:12:07PM -0500, Bill Ricker wrote: On Mon, Feb 2, 2009 at 10:06 PM, David Golden xda...@gmail.com wrote: And isn't a WD Mybook a hard drive? with a linux to interface between the disk and the USb apparently, which is why he's presenting his use

Re: [Boston.pm] debugging CPAN Shell

David Golden wrote: On Tue, Feb 3, 2009 at 4:08 PM, Federico Lucifredi flucifr...@acm.orgwrote: [r...@lander ~]# perl -MCPAN -e 'print $CPAN::VERSION'; 1.7602 That's pretty dated. Without knowing more about where it got hung up, I'd suggest upgrading that first. You might need

[Boston.pm] debugging CPAN Shell

Hello Gents, I am trying to run the CPAN shell in a WD Mybook II (29 MB of Ram). It hangs ignominiously. Any hints as to why this may be - how to debug it ? Best -F -- _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish (Federico L. Lucifredi)

[Boston.pm] [ot] Wide area bonjour

Hello Fellow Mongers, I am asking here because I am down to my last ounce of patience with this. Anyone using wide-area Bonjour (i.e. mDNS publishing DNS UPDATE messages to a remote Bind server) among the Mac users? Specifically, under 10.5.x I have it working just fine on Windows, 10.4.x, and

[Boston.pm] hacker-friendly alarm systems?

Borderline off-topic... Anyone has a good recommendation for a home security system that is friendly to getting poked around by enterprising geeks? Hardware aside, and security aside, I seem to recall there were some home monitoring projects based on Perl - anyone familiar with these

Re: [Boston.pm] Social - December 9 - Redbones

Bill Ricker wrote: On Sun, Dec 7, 2008 at 3:20 PM, Uri Guttman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so if you are planning on attending rsvp to the list so we can get a count. $Count++; # me in for beer if not bbq $Count++; # Ron N (off-list) $Count++; # one Ubuntista likely (not on list) + One

[Boston.pm] pretty-printing

Hello fellow Mongers, My memory chips are malfunctioning today, and I may have asked this before. I remember there were a few good tricks to properly print quantities like One foobar, Twelve foobars, and 123 foobars, one of which authored by The Damian himself. Can I get a hit of the clue

Re: [Boston.pm] a new perl book

Speaking of new Perl books, brian d foy's latest greatest is out as of last week: Mastering Perl - O'Reilly http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/9780596527242/ I had it on my preorder list and was not disappointed :-) Best -F BETSEY DYER wrote: I have been one of the listeners on your

Re: [Boston.pm] damian meeting recap

Well, damian is always an event =) Now, Bill, where are those pictures ? ;-) Best -Federico Uri Guttman wrote: hi all, there was a massive turnout tonight for damian's talks. i counted 77 mongers and guests and only about 45-50 sent in rsvps! the rest of you should be very ashamed of

[Boston.pm] pretty-printing messages

Hey Guys and Gals, can anyone remind me how that pretty-printing module that El Damian showcased the other year was called? It was able to handle plurals (x file/s deleted), even irregular ones, among the many things ;-) I am not sure if it was the same module, but it certainly was the same

[Boston.pm] pretty-printing messages

Hey Guys and Gals, can anyone remind me how that pretty-printing module that El Damian showcased the other year was called? It was able to handle plurals (x file/s deleted), even irregular ones, among the many things ;-) I am not sure if it was the same module, but it certainly was the same

Re: [Boston.pm] Off topic: C question

Greg, google for Varargs, and you will have your answer :) If memory serves me right, the Gnu C library manual (which you should own, but is available in postscript at gnu.org) has a nice chapter on them. best -f On Sat, 2006-03-11 at 11:04 -0500, Greg London wrote: Off topic. Please

Re: [Boston.pm] More Perl Style

Hello Uri, Thanks for the input. comments are below: since @triggers must be the same length as @commands then use that fact: my @triggers = ('0') x @triggers ; that's a good idea -- that I actually recently used. in this case I left the list explicit b/c the triggers will not

[Boston.pm] More Perl Style

Hello Guys, More Perl Style lessons for me, if anyone wants to chip in. Following is the script on the chopping block today - in the comments the parts that I did not manage to elegantize as much as I wanted. use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants); use strict;

Re: [Boston.pm] Combinatorics (Permutations

On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 00:03 -0500, Federico Lucifredi wrote: [...] the sub in an Iterator, it did not really answer what I wanted, so I wrote my own, and I am polishing my own. your owning own own ? I think a YAWN might be in order. I am going to bed 8) -f

Re: [Boston.pm] Permutation with Replacement considered harmful RE: Combinatorics

Hello BIll! I did not know you were a mathematician =) On The terminology point you mentioned, I must squarely place the blame of the choice of words on the way Discrete Math is taught these days. Standard texts refer to Permutation, Combination, Permutation with Repetition, and Combination

Re: [Boston.pm] Combinatorics

On Mon, 2005-11-21 at 23:00 -0500, Federico Lucifredi wrote: Hey Guys, Anyone has a good way to generate all combinations with repetitions starting from a give charset ? I was looking at Math::Combinatorics, but I was disappointed to learn that combinations are computed w/o repetition

Re: [Boston.pm] Turning to the Dark Side

Hello Fellow Perl Mongers, In the wake of Darth Vader's imminent rise to control of the Old Republic, I am about to turn to the dark side as well: I am embracing Python. Well, it is not quite so strong a committment (and it won't bring blockbuster movies around either I am afraid), I am

Re: [Boston.pm] OT(very):VT-100 Project

Hello Guys, Dan's description of how to tell whether your VT100 was upgraded is correct, but it's not quite true that an upgraded one is at VT102 levels. There are firmware bugs in VT100's which are not fixed by the 'advanced video option' which made them support 132x24 and insert/delete

Re: [Boston.pm] OT(very):VT-100 Project

Hello Guys, URI i have nightmares from my serial line days. so many years working on URI them in so many ways. and of course with vt-100s all around. How bad can that be =) From Tom and Ben's comments, I gather it is a standard DB25 with a null modem I need. Doh - I expected something more

[Boston.pm] OT(very):VT-100 Project

Hello Fellow Mongers, please excuse my totally Perl-unrelated question, but I am sure more than a few of you will appreciate the idea: I want to get my working VT-100 connected to a Linux server to read e-mail in a *very* old style way ;-) I know everything I need about setting tty lines in

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: O'Reilly

Hello Andy, I'm sorry I wasn't on this (off-topic) thread earlier, but I don't have time to read every mailing list every day. I do some casual Perl coding of my own and edited a few Perl books at O'Reilly in the past, but I'm not in the Perl loop these days. So I can't judge whether a

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: O'Reilly

Hey Ben, How do you feel when you have a nice process in place through which people are supposed to contact you, and customers keep on persisting in trying to get direct numbers to inside contacts? I tend to get irritated by that, but YMMV. Maybe a random editor will be like me, maybe not.

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: O'Reilly

Hello Uri, I have a bookish request: does anybody have an editorial contact at O'Reilly I can exchange a few ideas with? I am cooking a proposal for them and I need a few tips here and there. BT I'd start with http://www.oreilly.com/oreilly/author/intro.html. been there, done

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: O'Reilly

Hello fellow Mongers, I have a bookish request: does anybody have an editorial contact at O'Reilly I can exchange a few ideas with? I am cooking a proposal for them and I need a few tips here and there. Best - Federico _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word

Re: [Boston.pm] Social Meeting Plans Tech Meeting Followup

Ronald J Kimball wrote: About 25 people came to the tech meeting last night at BU. brian d foy presented his talk on Automating Software Releases, in which he told us about release(1) and Module::Release. I was held by my Harvard class yesterday, does anyone have notes on Brian's talk or are

[Boston.pm] [OT] undefined symbols and ld

Hello Mongers, As the best *nix pool of knowledge in town revolves around here (at least, in my assessment), I will pose this question here: I have had several runtime errors in the past several weeks due to unresolved symbols in C or C++ executables - missing library, I say, so I check

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: blosxom

Hey Greg, I have been using blosxom since one of the early imaginary number version releases (0.x+i). I strongly recommend it, it is essentially a clever perl script, very minimalistic, it builds on *NIX assumprions (as it should!), so that you simply create a text file in a certain directory,

Re: [Boston.pm] OT: Recommendation for mail server?

Hello, To round out the virtual user solution I implemented, I used MySQL for the back-end database, Dovecot (http://www.dovecot.org/) for IMAP server (I'd recommend avoiding POP3 if you can), and maildrop (http://www.courier-mta.org/maildrop/) as the local delivery agent. Though

Re: [Boston.pm] Timing out a long process and retaining the output

Hello Ben, I am in a hurry and I am not so sure why you are evaling in there, but I definitely DO wonder why you are setting the alarm after what is the code that I imagine you want to time out ? -Federico _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge

Re: [Boston.pm] Re: randal talk social

Hello Fellow Mongers, (Bows in the presence of _The Master_) Yeah, those are just the newest latest things I've written. I can also do the classic intro to objects in 90 minutes (the perlboot talk), or a short talk on using Test::More, or any of another dozen things that I seem to be known

Re: [Boston.pm] Meeting topic?

I can suggest a topic that I'd like to hear, in case there are any mongers who'd like to talk on it: POE--perl object environment. I'm thinking of using it and would love to hear case stories from any who have -- both pleasures and pitfalls. Hate to open a me too thread, but I actually second

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

I need to write a script that will return how much memory (RAM) is on a system as well as how much of it is being used. Can anyone assist? If this is done under UNIX/Linux, it might be easier than you think: just poke around the proc filesystem and you might find that all you need is

Re: [Boston.pm] Is there a module to access memory usage?

Fellow Speakeasy User Mike Burns wrote: If this is done under UNIX/Linux, it might be easier than you think: just poke around the proc filesystem and you might find that all you need is really there Hey pal, I did not guarantee it for *all* variants.. I

Re: [Boston.pm] Embedding Perl

Poking at the memory space of an executable is not a good idea (tm). Confucious Say: He who likes to poke at protected memory likes to live on the edge =) Thanks for the comment. I will check out SWIG. -Federico _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for

[Boston.pm] Embedding Perl

Hello Fellow Mongers, I just returned to Boston, and I am looking forward to see Damian tomorrow. In the meantime, here is a question worthy of you: I have been asked to provide scripting capability into a Qt application (essentially, the reverse of what I have shown you in my talk a

[Boston.pm] OT: DSL service in NE

Hello All, I am asking for a quick word of advice on DSL service in New England... is it currently possible to get a DSL line hooked up without the extra 30$ cost of the Verizon phone line typically associated with it? I guess the answer is no, but one of you mongers might just have figured

Re: [Boston.pm] Completing processing before SIGHUP

Hello There, The book also states that you can not IGNORE or trap a A KILL or STOP signal. Is it still the case with Perl 5.8 and Linux kernel 2.4x? That's a fact of *NIX life I am afraid: KILL is unstoppable (ignore), as is SIGSTOP - they provide the user/admin with a surefire way of either

Re: [Boston.pm] Completing processing before SIGHUP

Hello There, The book also states that you can not IGNORE or trap a A KILL or STOP signal. Is it still the case with Perl 5.8 and Linux kernel 2.4x? That's a fact of *NIX life I am afraid: KILL is unstoppable (ignore), as is SIGSTOP - they provide the user/admin with a surefire way of either

Re: [Boston.pm] Completing processing before SIGHUP

Hello There, The book also states that you can not IGNORE or trap a A KILL or STOP signal. Is it still the case with Perl 5.8 and Linux kernel 2.4x? That's a fact of *NIX life I am afraid: KILL is unstoppable (ignore), as is SIGSTOP - they provide the user/admin with a surefire way of either

Re: [Boston.pm] Completing processing before SIGHUP

Hello There, The book also states that you can not IGNORE or trap a A KILL or STOP signal. Is it still the case with Perl 5.8 and Linux kernel 2.4x? That's a fact of *NIX life I am afraid: KILL is unstoppable (ignore), as is SIGSTOP - they provide the user/admin with a surefire way of either

[Boston.pm] [OT]: O'Reilly P2P 2001

Hello fellow Boston-pmers, I am seeking slides from a p2p-2001 conference presentation. Did any of the brains(TM) on the list attend ? Over and out! - Federico _ -- 'Problem' is a bleak word for challenge - Richard Fish Muad'Dib of Caladan

[Boston.pm] mangled: perllocal.pod

Hello fellow Mongrels ;-) I used a script (from CPAN, no less) to eradicate a few modules from my install. It worked fine, *but* perllocal.pod still lists the modules (ehm...). Should I just go in there and wipe the mess myself or is there a way to tell perl to rebuild perllocal.pod ?

Re: [Boston.pm] mangled: perllocal.pod

Hello again, Here it is - straight from the CPAN FAQ. http://www.cpan.org/misc/cpan-faq.html#How_delete_Perl_modules -Federico - Original Message - From: Jerrad Pierce [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2003 20:57 Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] mangled:

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