On 2005.3.3, at 07:15 AM, John Delacour wrote:
At 9:45 pm + 2/3/05, Phil Dobbin wrote:
I'm thinking that if he's not comfortable with pico maybe emacs is
not the best idea...
I'd love to hear a convincing explanation from someone why anyone
would use such tools in preference to TextWrangler,
Apologies for fanning the fires, but this hits kind of close to home ...
On 2005.3.3, at 07:39 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
[...]
and either a
nightmare or an impossibility to deal with non-ascii, but maybe
that's because I'm just an
I will install the Xcode and see how it goes.
You know where to find it?
I will install the Xcode and see how it goes.
You know where to find it?
You need to become an Apple Developer connection Member thet ypu can
dowload
a lot of development tools.
The Apple web site for the ADC is
https://connect.apple.com
And if you don't have broadband, you can almost always
Yes, you're right ... I suppose that Find in the Finder doesn't find
it because /System is excluded from Find, unless you specifically
choose it?
sudo find / -name perlfunc*
On 2005.2.19, at 01:39 AM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
Hi,
Just a quick question. Is it possible to have a bunch of variables in
a separate file and then require that file in the script file? Let me
give you and example.
--
Script file
Speaking of the case insensitivity issue, is anyone here experimenting
with the case sensitive HFSx volume format?
, myself, almost as much as the CodeWarrior editor.
(Talk about twisted tastes.)
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Opinions are like armpits.
We all have two, and they all smell,
but we really don't want the other guy to get rid of his.
I thought I'd play around with Mac::Glue, so I fired up the CPAN shell
to install it. The installation went, in part, like this:
[...]
END failed--call queue aborted, DATA line 1.
*** malloc: vm_allocate(size=268435456) failed (error code=3)
*** malloc[10104]: error: Can't allocate
Hmm. All this made me look at how I have this box set up and I discover
that what I was about to tell you (and what I've done to a box I'm
borrowing from work) was wrong. I'lll try to reconstruct things. I hope
I make sense.
My spouse has, at her workplace, a Mac OS X machine with web sharing
work for most people, and they
do seem to be making headway at sorting things out so that mere mortal
sysads can figure them out.
Have you asked/searched on Apple's boards and mailing lists? I'm pretty
the topic has floated there in the past.
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Nothing to say today
so I'll say
Paul DuBois's books on MySQL have been pretty good for me. I got a lot
out of the one called, I think, Perl and MySQL for the Web.
It's been over a year, but the MySQL lists seemed to be a lot of help:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=mysqlr=1w=2
(These days I seem to be messing around with
PATH,
which perl will tell you that.
List of installed modules. I must be distracted.
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Joel Rees
Nothing to say today
so I'll say nothing:
Nothing.
.
Actually, there is one more reason not to put /usr/local/bin in your
path ahead of /bin.
It's a potential security weak spot.
(Say some package you test out puts a program of some sort named ps
in /usr/local/bin.)
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even though much of what I do is not sensible
it does make sense
.
There is a way to get a list, but I don't remember it, and javadoc
seems to be interfering with my memory of perldoc right now. Maybe
someone can help me here?
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Joel Rees
Nothing to say today
so I'll say nothing:
Nothing.
darn fast, my old eyes aren't very good
anymore, and I tend to get those pesky Optic Migraines when I stare
at anything that strobes or has significant glare, ...
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Getting involved in the neighbor's family squabbles is dangerous.
But if the abusive partner has a habit
that Apple
put up a download of just the relevant files?
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It's not the Here's a button, click it! attitude,
It's Bill saying he has to be free to invent our technological
future.
(But I'm just as glad it's not Steve's company with the 95%,
either.)
to post questions.
Not having done what you did, I'm not going to take a stab at your
other questions. But what does umask without any arguments tell you?
Something like 037 or 015?
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even though much of what I do is not sensible
it does make sense if you know why ...
On 2004.10.4, at 02:29 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:
I'm not so sure about the OT designation.
FORTH is on topic on a perl list? ;-)
Apple's Macintosh Programmer's Workshop (MPW) is the best programming
environment I have ever used. BBEdit worksheets are a start but are
not nearly as flexible. emacs is
On 2004.9.24, at 11:55 AM, wren argetlahm wrote:
--- Chris Devers wrote:
--- Joel Rees wrote:
I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy
to just look at with
a text editor (formatting off, of course).
Yeah, they're both just text and (pretty) easily
readable. The problem comes in that I
On 2004.9.24, at 11:34 AM, Chris Devers wrote:
On Fri, 24 Sep 2004, Joel Rees wrote:
I don't know about .vcf, but .csv is fairly easy to just look at with
a text editor (formatting off, of course).
VCF is (basically) an ascii format. You can encode binary data (e.g.
photos) in it, but it's base64
I'd like to take more time for this, but waiting doesn't produce more
time this week. So I'll just toss out an idea --
You might be interested in this page, entitled
Import Address Book
records into to Thunderbird :
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20040905025741769
When I googled
should
prevent this from working in the first place.
Well, open up a terminal window and look at the permissions:
% ls -la /etc
% ls -la /etc/passwd
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;
close (FILE);
print $data;
exit;
--
Joel Rees
Nothing to say today
so I'll say nothing:
Nothing.
, just in case something goes haywire in
one.
Most people don't really need to bother with anything fancy, just let
the install set up run.
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Joel Rees
If God had meant for us to not tweak our source code,
He'd've given us Microsoft.
go to work.
Thanks,
Mark
On Aug 25, 2004, at 8:16 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
Just a few nosy comments --
html
head
titleUntitled Page/title
/head
body
a
href=javascript:window.location='cgi-bin/
download.cgi?picname=Upload-Background.gif'picture link/a
Not sure why you want to bother with javascript
on multiple sets of images. You do have to add a
little code for each set of images, of course.
That script needs some comments.
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Joel Rees
Getting involved in the neighbor's family squabbles is dangerous.
But if the abusive partner has a habit of shooting through his/her
roof,
the guy who
together, I could post it.
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Joel Rees
Complaining about systems that are incomplete misses the point.
In this world, a system can't be perfect and useful at the same
time.
Of course, there's no excuse for refusing to fix problems --
we'll never run out of problems.
Thinking twice, I'll be out of pocket for a while, so I'll just go
ahead and post this just in case anyone is interested.
http://reiisi.homedns.org/~joel/cs/shared_code/showpics.pl.text
Contains some shift-jis, which can be stripped out with no ill effects.
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It's
Now if we take that same simple program and either
don't define $SIG{'TERM'} or set it to 'DEFAULT' we
get END when the parent dies, but when we kill the
child cleanup isn't run (duh) but neither is END. Is
that standard behaviour? I would've thought it'd try
to do END if at all possible to clean
On 2004.7.15, at 06:43 AM, Brian Dimeler wrote:
Hi, I was having trouble installing LWP on the version of Perl that
came with our office iMac (running OS X 10.3.4) and therefore I
reinstalled Perl as per the suggestion of CPAN, using the guide at
(B Would someone else take a look at that page and tell me whether they
(B agree with me that it looks like some summer intern at Apple has kind
(B of laid a little land mine in there, maybe thinking he was bringing
(B the page up to date with Panther?
(B
(B Absolutely. I wish Apple would
Dunno about Jaguar earlier.
[reiisi-rend:~] family% ls -la /var/spool/cups
ls: cups: Permission denied
heh. Permissions are correct.
Anyway, cups could be got to run (with a lot of patience, as I recall)
in 10.0. It ran, if not with fully satisfactory results in some cases,
in 10.1. I
On 2004.6.15, at 06:08 AM, Bill Stephenson wrote:
On Jun 14, 2004, at 3:12 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
I'm curious - is reinstalling the OS a common troubleshooting
technique for older MacOS versions? I'm a fairly recent switcher
myself. I purchased my first Mac expressly to run Mac OS X DP4.
Yes,
If not, you can always copy if off your collegue's hard drive.
It being the installer package, of course. It installs stuff all
over the place - apps, documentation, headers, libraries, etc., etc.
Trying to copy all that stuff manually would be a massive pain.
I'm pretty sure that's what Chris
On 2004.5.26, at 10:49 PM, Chris Nandor wrote:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Rees) wrote:
Macintouch is showing an AS script:
http://www.macintouch.com/#notesandtips
I've never been comfortable with AS, so I'm thinking about installing
it to see how it works, then re
quit
unless I start sudoed.
And I can't find the instructions about querying which modules are
installed, either.
Maybe it'd help if I had gotten more sleep last night.
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Joel Rees
On 2004.5.6, at 08:08 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
Okay, I seem to have forgotten how to use CPAN. Where are the detailed
instructions?
(perldoc cpan only gets me a page.)
And while I'm making noise,
When you have perl 5.6 as the system perl (/usr/bin) and perl 5.8 as a
parallel install in /usr/local
On 2004.5.6, at 09:01 PM, Stephen Harris wrote:
Hi,
Decided to teach myself Perl and the got Sam's Teach Yourself Perl
in 24 hrs (book CD ) from the local library.
I began working with the book and found that perl 5.6.1 only runs in
Classic environment,
That would be macPerl 5.6.1?
but that
it doesn't happen as a user other than the
one I installed as, but I haven't tried running as a non-install admin
user yet.
I'm thinking too hard, I know. Time to install XML and get back to work.
--
Joel Rees
insertion attempts.
--
Joel Rees
Complaining about systems that are incomplete misses the point.
In this world, a system can't be perfect and useful at the same
time.
Of course, that's no excuse to refuse to fix problems --
we'll never run out of problems.
understand the perl approach to parsing characters. Not that I don't
understand it, but it's hard for a guy who essentially cut his teeth
porting Forth to get used to.
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Joel Rees
.
--
Joel Rees
and provide several of the services provided on .Mac, but I
might have been hallucinating. Sometimes my dreams seem pretty real
when I don't get to bed until four-ish. Maybe I should see if I can
find something on that.
--
Joel Rees
If God hadn't meant for us to tweak our source code,
He'd've
those easier to
see as well as easy to see around. (Not sure what I want to see in
them.)
(And sometime I'd like to build an error page script that would dump
64K from /random back at the zombie. But I have more important things
to do first.)
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Joel Rees
Getting involved in the neighbor's
I'm sure I've seen a thread on this, but a casual search didn't turn it
up. (I'm always looking in the wrong places.)
When I'm logged in as a user, I can set the appropriate environmen
variables, but when a daemon is running, where is it going to get them?
Joel Rees
Joel Rees
(BOn 2004.4.30, at 04:38 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
(B
(B On Apr 30, 2004, at 2:30 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
(B
(B My experience is that this kind of thing tends to lead to dead code
(B or endless loops. Do I need to dig in and find the macro declaration
(B and see if I can fix it?
(B
(B
On 2004.4.30, at 04:30 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Apr 30, 2004, at 2:24 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
When I'm logged in as a user, I can set the appropriate environmen
variables, but when a daemon is running, where is it going to get
them?
Daemons are started from scripts found in /System/Library
suggesting against threads, is that because
Perl's threads are still in the oven, or because Mac OS X's threads are
still a little unripe, so to speak?
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Joel Rees
, it was for backing up to your .mac account.
2. Otherwise, has someone wrote a perl program to do this that I can
run in cron.
Wasn't there a related thread here just this last week, including
mention of either CpMac or ditto?
I'll shut up now.
--
Joel Rees
Opinions are like armpits.
We
Joel Rees
If God hadn't meant for us to tweak our source code, He'd've given us
Microsoft.
Joel,
Don't credit God for this thing. It is of the devil.
What? You thought I thought God meant for us _not_ to tweak our source
code?
;-
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Joel Rees
Opinions are like armpits.
We all have two
requests, so email
those to me privately, and I'll summarize to the list in a few days.
Like the analogy, Sherm.
(Apologies to Chris Devers and to the list for cluttering it with
noise, but this thread made me think of a new tag-line.)
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Joel Rees
If God hadn't meant for us to tweak our source
the on-line manual accessible where the apache foundation
folks were thoughtful enough to put it, at
http://localhost/manual/
Joel Rees
slice syntax isn't deprecated or anything is it? Don't see it
mentioned in O'Reilly's Nutshell or in the Cookbook's section on arrays.
(Sorry about the not-really-topical noise.)
Gah! That's what I get for using comments! ;-)
Darn right, stop that! Code is hard to write, it should be hard to
read, too! ;-)
8-)
That's what I like about perl.
Anyway, I'm aware that slice is not a function, just surprised that
neither the concept nor the syntax seems to get any
So, I'm wondering about that version number. 5.8.1 is still the
latest stable Perl, right?
No, 5.8.3 is the latest.
And 5.8.4 will likely be out within a week.
So, given an iBook that is going to host my personal site, should I
load 5.8.3 parallel to the the 5.6 in Mac OS 10.2, or should I stick
On 2004/03/17, at 11:29, Bill Stephenson wrote:
Well,
I think that Kevin (morbus) really did a good job of pointing out why
I can't entirely do this yet. Some of the sites I host are critical to
the businesses that use them and Verio has always provided a great
service. Because they host on
On 2004/03/16, at 11:13, Bill Stephenson wrote:
I was wondering if anyone here is using a MacOS X box with a fixed IP
cable DSL account
Cable with fixed IP? Does it exist?
My current US Cable provider told me I could do static IP if I put my
own router between the cable modem and my internal
On 2004/03/16, at 12:29, Chris Devers wrote:
On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Morbus Iff wrote:
Please don't make the web a world of Geocities.
On the other hand, it has always kind of bugged me that having a fully
functional web server out of the box isn't seen as a normal part of
having
interenet access,
On 2004/02/28, at 0:08, Chap Harrison wrote:
... and I wonder why some people swear by Applescript. I think it may
be from inexperience.
Yours or theirs?
(heh.)
As has been pointed out, FileMaker is still more of a RAD tool than a
solutions tool, and AppleScript also. Precision in a language
Thanks everyone. The developer tools I installed is the
developer tools from Jaguar. I don't have the Panther
developer tools. But I will get it.
Is there an easy place to buy the tools from? Apple
seems to want to sign me up as a developer, etc.
If you don't mind the agreement they make you
On 2003.12.15, at 07:10 AM, John Delacour wrote:
At 5:01 pm +0900 11/12/03, Robin wrote:
late in on this one but you can treat the clipboard as a filehandle
if you pipe to pbpaste and pbcopy :
open (FROM_CLIPBOARD, pbpaste|);
open (TO_CLIPBOARD, |pbcopy);
you can then do as you normally would
Can anyone offer an elegant solution for a data structure that
maintains
sorted order as well as access to data for a (primary) key?
Is everyone thinking too hard or am I not thinking hard enough?
If you have a database and you need to search it on an alternate key,
you either linear search on
drieux,
(Sorry about taking so long to respond -- further follow-ups off list,
of course.)
On 2003.11.9, at 05:15 AM, drieux wrote:
Begin forwarded message:
does anybody know how to make Hypercard run on System 9 or X?
I've been running a few hypercard apps on Mac OS 9 and X without much
Fixed-point math (generally with 4
decimal places and an implied decimal point on a 32 or 64 bit integer) is
more appropriate in those cases.
Math::BigFloat, perhaps?
other than their primary group through the
Netinfo Manager utility. (GUI access in the utilities folder.)
--
Joel Rees, programmer, Systems Group
Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan
http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp
--
When software is patentable, anything is patentable.
(http
This script then behaves as I would expect:
#!/usr/bin/perl
no warnings ;
$f = $ENV{HOME}/Desktop/biao.txt ; # file saved as UTF-8
open F, $f or die $! ;
$/ = \015 ; # only if the file has Mac line endings !!!
print \x{8868}\n\n; # prints the character as utf-8
for (F) {
print 1. $_ if /Ë°®/
Now why'd you look?
* input method is a mess! I like the old one ("disintegrated") better.
(B
(BYeah, I think the IM is going backwards as much as forwards, myself.
(B
(B * took 15 minutes to find how to enter '\' (backslash) instead of $B!W!"(B
(B (yen) ONCE Kotoeri is enabled. Once Kotoeri is enabled,
I took another look at some garbled spam I seem to be picking up
regularly, which I had mistakenly assumed to be from a Korean source,
and it looks like Apple's mail app in 10.2.4 is _not_ handling 7-bit JIS
correctly. More later.
rant
Crud. I have some resume pages that I _know_ are shift
a
closer look at this tomorrow. (Thanks, Dan!)
--
Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group
Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken), Osaka, Japan
http://www.alpsgiken.co.jp
(early)?
$B0T$B0U$B0Gndc
Who's meaningful dark? Or perhaps the saba fish in the crucible?
Anyway, they _look_ sort of like 7-bit JIS, and the two you came up with
for hotaru are, in fact, 7-bit JIS for hotaru.
--
Joel Rees, programmer, Kansai Systems Group
Altech Corporation (Alpsgiken
On Wednesday, Jun 18, 2003, at 20:01 Asia/Tokyo, Joel Rees wrote:
(I'm still trying to decipher what they've done with the file system,
and still trying to figure out how to get the terminal app to show the
Japanese names for files. My brother in law has a book that shows a way
into some visible
hexadecimal display form --
deg.TMGDBdeg.$D9$BBdeg.$D9deg.$E9deg.$D9-$DA$F5
Where have I seen that before? It just doesn't make any sense at all as
any JIS in a visible hexadecimal form. Maybe it's just raw, untouched,
straight JIS, with no escapes.
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to periods.
(Tried opening it with an editor that understands straight JIS.)
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and onew.
With freeBSD, jvim/Wnn does fairly well, behaves like I would expect vi
to behave with Japanese. It does flake out at times, however. I'll know
more about how they work on openBSD today, I suppose.
One of these days, I'll have to talk my employer into letting me use a
Mac at work.
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Joel
months ago, so you
might search the archives. Or search the web for things like CJK, euc
encoding, shift-JIS, tron characters, etc.
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selectable, and the precedence
defaults are pretty handy, as well.
--
Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
subscribe, you'll want a newsreader, or
you'll want to set filters for you mail reader.
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the Two Bushes in White
House :)
Heh. West Texas is a country and a language to itself.
--
Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
(Amusing myself by imagining the elder bush saying Kwansai and the
younger saying Kansai. Not sure I could imagine the old guy saying
tefu-tefu, though.)
delimiters? Space has a somewhat different
meaning for Japanese.
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put your configuration info
for CPAN. You'll probably need to re-configure CPAN, at minimum.
Anyone successfully using CPAN and FINK together?
--
Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Okay, here's the Java program I was talking about, since someone might
want it and I'm going to be off-list for a while:
-begin code
/**
* Let's try the Factorial in BigInteger
*
* @author Joel Rees, Altech Corporation, Esaka, Japan
* Copyright
is training a large group of us on Struts (Java -- Jakarta).
Anyone know of a comparable project with Perl, i. e., a framework that
would allow separating the business model and control logic out of the
view?
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server scripts that would support this kind
of thing?
Of course, where this all has to eventually head is that your phone will
become your mail server.
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arcane code today. :)
Methinks youthinks right. Thanks for the link.
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Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED]
but it's binary, and I don't know how it's formatted.
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John Labovitz
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.johnlabovitz.com
Obvious thought, but have you tried plist?
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John Labovitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] responded:
On 9/8/02 8:01 PM, Joel Rees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Obvious thought, but have you tried plist?
It doesn't seem to be that -- I tried both pl and plutil, and neither
wanted to read it. But I have no experience with plists, so maybe I'm
like web-publishing apache perl example.
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