Re: [way OT] ... Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-08 Thread Ian Ragsdale
How does directing this sort of thing at someone who worked on a tiny little bit of Tiger, which you guys seem to use personally, help anything at all? Unless you have complaints about perl on Tiger, these comments seem inappropriate. If anything, I'd be thankful to have an engineer who

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Ian Ragsdale
Is there any reason you would NEED to compile it fat? Does anybody expect that the same partition will boot on both x386 and PowerPC macs? Ian On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:32 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 5:19 AM, Gisle Aas wrote: Why would it be painful to compile perl and its

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: I used to be a NeXt developer. This announcement is very reminiscent of the NeXt announcement to stop making those little black boxes and bring NeXt OS on Intel chips. We had just bought a ton of hardware and they demo this clunky 386 PC.

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-07 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Jun 7, 2005, at 12:57 PM, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: Ian Ragsdale wrote: On Jun 7, 2005, at 11:51 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote: Did NeXT produce their own boxes, or did they allow installs on any PC with supported hardware. I believe that is a key difference. Apple boxes will be exactly

Re: CamelBones on Intel? Maybe not.

2005-06-06 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Jun 6, 2005, at 5:18 PM, Joel Rees wrote: Jobs is insane. I'm not so sure about that. IBM seems unwilling or unable to produce mobile G5s, which is a market that Apple considers very important. They also are 2 years behind schedule on 3.0Ghz G5s, and appear to be focusing on video

Re: Tiger version

2005-04-12 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Apr 12, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Lola Lee wrote: Chris Devers wrote: Your best bet is to just keep an eye on tech news sites. The release of Tiger will surely be a headline on CNet, Slashdot, etc, and maybe even non-tech-specific sites like CNN or the BBC. And not a moment too soon . . . go over to

Re: ANN: ShuX 3.0-beta1

2005-03-18 Thread Ian Ragsdale
It works for me if I open it from the Finder. Have you tried using open? open /Applications/ShuX.app It has the advantage of being easier to type. Ian On Mar 18, 2005, at 2:03 PM, David Wheeler wrote: On Mar 18, 2005, at 11:45 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote: One of the features of CamelBones 1.0 will

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-03 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:04 AM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: Ian == Ian Ragsdale [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian If you want to stay with something free, I'd suggest TextWrangler from Ian Bare Bones: Ian http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml Ian It has good syntax coloring

Re: What Perl editor do you recommend?

2005-03-02 Thread Ian Ragsdale
If you want to stay with something free, I'd suggest TextWrangler from Bare Bones: http://www.barebones.com/products/textwrangler/index.shtml It has good syntax coloring, and integrates well with the command-line perl - you can set a keyboard shortcut to run scripts check their syntax, and

Re: MOD_PERL and OSX

2004-11-09 Thread Ian Ragsdale
My guess is that you have a version mismatch between mod_perl and perl. Ian On Nov 9, 2004, at 4:59 PM, Mark S Lowe wrote: It would seem after many attempts to get anything of any level of complexity running in mod_perl under OSX, that perhaps it cant be done. I have libraries that work fine in

Re: BBEdit 8.0

2004-09-09 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Sep 9, 2004, at 5:00 PM, Chris Carline wrote: I'm curious as to the attraction of BBEdit. Coming from a Unix/Windows background, I find that whilst it seems pretty solid and has some nice features, it costs at least five times more than any sane person should be prepared to pay. But even taking

Re: [OT] MySQL for Web Apps

2004-02-04 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On Feb 4, 2004, at 1:59 AM, Bill Stephenson wrote: It occurs to me that the unix os is basically a database in and of itself and perl interacts directly with the os, therefore, using it to store and retrieve data may not be that inefficient. I agree with this - you can get good results with a

Re: mssql

2003-03-08 Thread Ian Ragsdale
FreeTDS (www.freetds.org) is an open source implementation of the Tabular Data Stream protocol used by Sybase and MSSQL. You can use freetds and DBD::sybase to connect to MSSQL. I have used it without problems on a number of linux machines with the DBD::sybase module but have never tried it

Re: Cursor return, no line feed

2003-01-31 Thread Ian Ragsdale
The simple old way (I'm not sure if the syntax below supercedes it) is: $|=1; Assigning any non-false value to $| will turn off buffering. Ian On 1/31/03 9:16 PM, Dan Mills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 12:26 PM, Martin Redington wrote: Try the following:

Re: How do you install modules in OS X?

2002-10-31 Thread Ian Ragsdale
This is a bug in the version of CPAN that comes with perl 5.6. If a module is in the perl core distribution and you try to install or upgrade it (it's possible that it moved into the core in a later version than 5.6) then that version of CPAN will grab perl to install that module. If you instead

Re: OS X meltdown

2002-10-24 Thread Ian Ragsdale
You should be able to re-install without having to reinstall everything. Since only Apple stuff goes in /System, the archive install option on the 10.2 disk should move the /System folder and reinstall all the system files without disturbing everything else. Ian On 10/24/02 12:29 PM, Trey Harris

Re: OS X meltdown

2002-10-24 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 10/24/02 12:41 PM, Trey Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In a message dated Thu, 24 Oct 2002, Ian Ragsdale writes: You should be able to re-install without having to reinstall everything. Since only Apple stuff goes in /System, the archive install option on the 10.2 disk should move

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

2002-06-04 Thread Ian Ragsdale
If you are hoping for case-sensitivity, which is the only part of a new file system that would fix this problem, don't get your hopes up - I'm pretty positive that Apple will never make their default file system case sensitive. This has been discussed at length in many forums. As for HFS+, what

Re: Accessing Samba - Mount Volume Possible?

2002-05-01 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 5/1/02 3:29 PM, Randy Boring [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Pre-warning, I'm biased, as I work for Thursby Software Systems, Inc. I'll keep that in mind. :) Samba is mostly a server, so it's not likely that you really want to mount _via_ Samba, you probably want to mount a Samba volume via

Re: mod_perl stopped working...

2002-04-11 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 4/11/02 1:31 PM, PK Eidesis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But this whole Perl 5.6.1, mod_perl crapola has left me very befuddled. In some ways I have myself to blame because I dicked with Apple's stock 5.6.0 install... I never should have done that. Otoh, Perl/CPAN/mod_perl install should

Re: Installing Perl

2002-03-19 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 3/19/02 11:56 AM, Palle Bo Nielsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seem like it can't find the LWP/Simple.pm package, which probably isn't installed per default on Mac OS X Server. So what I thought was... A) Do I need to install a fresh copy of Perl from CPAN ? No, you don¹t. You can

Re: Perl as alternative to MySQL

2002-03-18 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 3/18/02 1:07 PM, Danny Arsenault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let me know if this is crazy! It's not totally crazy. :) Now, the folks on the Lasso list claim that this kind of file-based DB thing is done all the time in Perl, and now that we have Perl on OS X, I wonder if I

Re: how to use DropScript?

2002-02-04 Thread Ian Ragsdale
DropScript executes the script inside it and passes the paths of any files that were dropped on the app. The default one clones itself with any script you drop on it. So, you write your script in a way that just expects filenames as arguments, and then you drop your script on DropScript, which

Re: ImageMagick (to use with PerlMagick)

2002-01-29 Thread Ian Ragsdale
I downloaded compiled it successfully a couple of weeks ago, but have since been too busy to make sure it works correctly. Try running ranlib /usr/local/lib/libMagick.la and then trying to compile PerlMagick again. It seems as if you have to run that on new libraries before you can link to

Re: Apache::args vs Apache::Request speed

2002-01-28 Thread Ian Ragsdale
How about setting something up on SourceForge? I know they have OS X environments available for compiling and testing. Ian On 1/28/02 2:19 PM, John Siracusa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm cc-ing this to the Mac OS X Perl list in the hopes that someone can provide a test environment for you.

Re: Configuring /Setting Up Perl on OS X 10.1.2

2002-01-18 Thread Ian Ragsdale
Just make sure you install the dev tools - without them you don't have make or GCC, and you won't be able to install any additional perl libraries. Other than that, I haven't found anything to be missing out of the box. Oh - and make sure you have BBEdit 6.5 - possibly the best perl tool ever.

Re: Help with Perl on MacOSX

2002-01-10 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 1/10/02 1:38 PM, Chris Devers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2002, John Gruber wrote: (BBEdit is about as agnostic about line endings as an editor can get.) Vim is pretty agnostic too -- it'll just optionally put a little [dos] or [mac] or [unix] in the corner if you ask it

Re: SOAP::Lite

2001-10-05 Thread Ian Ragsdale
Larry, there are a few debugging tricks you can do at this point. The first thing you should do anytime you get an internal server error is check the apache error log (in /var/log/httpd/error_log) - this might give you some indication of what is going wrong. Another handy thing to try is to run

Re: Cocoa interfaces

2001-09-18 Thread Ian Ragsdale
On 9/18/01 12:40 PM, Stefan Rusterholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Wilfredo Sánchez wrote: yeah; in MacOS X we could (finally) have applications written in Perl that for the user would look just like any other. So then, let's start a petition =) I think too, that such

Re: GUI?

2001-08-18 Thread Ian Ragsdale
I believe that the interface for Tenon's iTools uses this approach. Ian On 8/18/01 12:15 AM, Bill Stephenson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Otherwise, you can use the Interface Builder and write some code to pass objects between a perl app and an app built with the Developer Tools. I have not

Re: MySQL data files HERE!

2001-06-29 Thread Ian Ragsdale
I just wanna chime in here with a quick explanation of what is going on, so that it doesn't seem so arbitrary. In the public beta, the root password was set to be the same as the first user you created. This is bad for a number of reasons, but this is why you could use 'su' with your own

Re: MacPerl to OSX Perl

2001-04-01 Thread Ian Ragsdale
My guess is that it is a line endings problem - I get this error under most unix systems if I use a file with macintosh line endings. Can whatever editor you're using translate the line endings to unix? Ian --On Sunday, April 1, 2001 3:16 PM -0800 hciR nellA [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: iH i

Re: Carbon apps on unix disk

2001-04-01 Thread Ian Ragsdale
nbow-colored or blue. Right? The comments below seem to indicate something different. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Ragsdale) wrote: Pepper is definitely carbon - it runs on OS 9 as well. Ian On 4/1/01 8:48 PM, "Bill Stephenson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PhotoLine and Pepper b