knows
what to do with it, nor knows how to warn you of the fact.
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Beekeeping is like being a lion tamer, but
with smaller lions, and more of them.
-- arp
/bin/perl Undefined symbols:
_Perl_safefree
_Perl_safemalloc
_Perl_sv_2pv
_Perl_sv_catpvn
_perl_get_sv
Did you, perchance, compile and install your own perl from sources without
diddling the Makefile and what have you?
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1117 CCCAAAGACA C T CACAGT 5
1 1 A C TGTTCTTTCA 4
1394 0 AGCAATAAAC G T 3
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package system-perl580-5.8.0-1
which is odd, when you consider:
510$ which perl
/usr/local/bin/perl
511$ perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.0 built for darwin
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with smaller lions, and more of them.
-- arp
until Activestate port Komodo.
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even know what the correct terminology
is
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up Perl interpreters, tho...
If you fork() you avoid both that overhead and the overhead of compiling
your code to bytecode. And while you can't nice a process that you are
forking off, you could do something like system(renice $niceness -p $$)
in the new process.
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On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 11:58 am -0700 Rich Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 7:26 AM +0100 7/16/03, David Cantrell wrote:
If you fork() you avoid both that overhead and the overhead of
compiling your code to bytecode. And while you can't nice a process
that you are forking off, you could do
On Wednesday, July 16, 2003 1:15 pm -0700 Rich Morin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At 8:33 PM +0100 7/16/03, David Cantrell wrote:
As far as the program is concerned, it's a complete copy. But yes,
most modern virtual memory implementations will, I believe, do copy
on write. I haven't actually tested
to somehow tell consed to run in an Xwindows
environment if the Xwindows server is running.
Set the DISPLAY environment variable to something appropriate.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity
Ari Kahn wrote:
David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Set the DISPLAY environment variable to something appropriate.
How do I figure out what is an appropriate setting for DISPLAY?
DISPLAY=:0 is almost always the right incantation. You do, of course,
need to be running a local X server
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Soylent green is purple! Soylent green is purple!
index(), rindex() and
substr().
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If you have received this email in error, please add some nutmeg
and egg whites, whisk, and place in a warm oven for 40 minutes.
) user attempting to verify that I am a person, and a
spammer trying to verify that my address really exists and is read.
The policy on the mailing lists I run is that anyone moronic enough to
send such challenges in response to mailing list postings gets
unsubscribed.
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On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 01:44:58PM +, David Cantrell wrote:
I just received this:
I am an automated email sentry designed to protect against unwanted email.
You recently sent an email titled 'Re: tricky parsing question' to 'macosx'.
...
Amusingly, this message also triggered the broken
say which one to use cos
that's a religious issue :-)
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Repent through spending
.
The *only* reason that I am now in the process of kicking all the other
users off the box and moving my own stuff to a hosted machine is because
it's cheaper to buy bandwidth for my content that way than to get fatter
DSL.
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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 07:22:38PM -0500, Ken Youens-Clark wrote:
The File::Find module can be a little cryptic, so you might be
interested to look at Randal Schwartz's File::Finder module ...
Or Richard Clamp's File::Find::Rule.
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would have got some rather more useful error messages!
O'Reilly are good at putting errata on their web site, so you really
should report this to them. I just checked and it doesn't appear that
this one has been reported yet.
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Warning: Cannot install libwww-perl, don't know what it is.
libwww-perl is, IMO, badly named and badly packaged. It's the same as
Bundle::LWP.
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All praise the Sun God
For He is a Fun God
Ra Ra Ra!
blades.
[aside: Apple guys - just copy the interface from VB 3]
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May your blessings always outweigh your blotches!
-- Dianne van Dulken,
in alt.2eggs...
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 04:25:12AM -0500, Paul G. Hackett wrote:
Quoting David Cantrell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The one about (C|C++|Objectionable C) and (Cocoa|Carbon|Coelocanth)
might help. It's on my bookshelf, but I've not used it much
you couldn't be a *little* more specific about that book
first in your path.
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Pressure was growing last night for the global war on terror to be
broadened to take in a wide range of other 'rogue emotions' including
horror, shock and a general feeling of bewilderment about the state of
the world
On Wed, Nov 03, 2004 at 11:50:07AM -0500, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Nov 3, 2004, at 6:42 AM, David Cantrell wrote:
I do *not* advise removing the perl that comes with OS X.
Neither did I. There's a big difference between removing perl and
changing which perl is the default.
I suggested
or not, but I'd use Pacifist
http://www.charlessoft.com to extract it from the install media.
I'd ask someone on here with exactly the right version of OS X to email
me a copy.
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Norton Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files
of 'single' and double quotes in the
original post - not worth buying.
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Taking over the world, one zombie cyborg kitten at a time
set you probably intend is Windows-1252
No he doesn't, he wants iso-8859-15
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WARNING! People in front of screen are stupider than they appear
-- Tanuki the Raccoon-dog, in the Monastery
John Delacour wrote:
At 12:33 pm + 18/2/05, David Cantrell wrote:
First of all iso-8859-1 does not contain the Euro sign. The
character set you probably intend is Windows-1252
No he doesn't, he wants iso-8859-15
I doubt it very much
If he says he wants ISO 8859 1 and he says he wants
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I will be out of the office starting 06/04/2005 and will not return until
06/11/2005.
I wonder if this guy is always stupid enough to send auto-replies to
mailing lists, or if we've been singled out for special treatment.
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Lola Lee wrote:
David Cantrell wrote:
John Delacour wrote:
Getting CPAN to behave is also a black art.
I wonder what you're doing wrong, then.
I'm not the only one. There's a couple modules that I haven't been able
to get to compile lately, such as WebService::GoogleHack, and I don't
know
own perl build and leave
Apple's own perl well alone.
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I remember when computers were frustrating because they did
exactly what you told them to. That seems kinda quaint now.
-- JD Baldwin, in the Monastery
Solaris it really does kill
all. That is, it sends your chosen signal to all processes. Not good.
So don't get in to the habit of using it.
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Eye have a spelling chequer / It came with my pea sea
It planely marques four my revue / Miss Steaks eye
just a couple of weeks
ago on one of the many lists I subscribe to. But I can't remember which
list, or who by.
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When one has bathed in Christ there is no need to bathe a second time
-- St. Jerome, on why washing is a vile pagan
of insanity out of one of my modules
that is on the CPAN. Thankfully, I never documented that they could be
called as functions, and so I don't feel that I shuold care if their
removal breaks anything :-)
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One person can change the world, but most
about in the guts of that module and extract the code I need.
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fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah;
fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way
like ...
system('open', '/Applications/Acrobat.app');
then you'll need to:
wait around until Acrobat appears in the process table;
wait around until that PID disappears;
Check out Mac::Processes on the CPAN.
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in
parallel with your program, then at the moment system() returns you do
*not* know that it has safely grabbed hold of the file. You don't even
know that it has when you see Acrobat appear in the process table.
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Eye have a spelling chequer
rename it.
It's just a symlink to /usr/bin/lwp-request. You don't need it. Just
use 'lwp-request -m HEAD' instead, if you need to do an HTTP HEAD
request in a shell script.
Presumably you can create a HEAD alias in your shell and, the shell
being case-sensitive, avoid the problem.
--
David
be written somewhat better.
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Are you feeling bored? depressed? slowed down? Evil Scientists may
be manipulating the speed of light in your vicinity. Buy our patented
instructional video to find out how, and maybe YOU can stop THEM
to understand?
Run the CPAN shell as root as all will be well.
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On the bright side, if sendmail is tied up routing spam and pointless
uknot posts, it's not waving its arse around saying root me!
-- Peter Corlett, in uknot
admit) that that will
break some of Apple's stuff, or that your nice shiny new 5.8.8 might get
downgraded by Software Update at some point.
b) use macports (aka darwinports) to install 5.8.8 in /opt
Do that - or build your own and put it in /usr/local or similar.
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On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 12:00:34AM +0900, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:
This is a newbie question: how can I determine if a specific module
is installed on a client machine?
if(eval use Whatever::Module) {
do this;
} else {
do that;
}
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essential ?
Given that the whole point of myspace is to be a ghetto for all the
least tasteful websites in the world - it absolutely is essential.
Without music (and preferably badly MIDIed music at that) his account
will be revoked.
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and then removing it before I get a chance to read
it, you'll now take an action without the user knowing about it but on
the assumption that he does, *and* you've eaten an arbitrary amount of
what I typed, which I'll have to type again.
Needless to say, this is a Very Bad Idea.
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David Cantrell | Nth
this isn't an issue if you're only ever working on OS X, but
needlessly restricting your code to particular versions of perl is a bad
habit to get in to, because you *will* get bitten by it if you share
your code with other people.
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That Worked On A Laptop and not because it was Mac.
Too many of us still sneer at anything non-Unix.
--
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I apologize if I offended you personally,
I intended to do it professionally.
-- Steve Champeon, on the nanog list
-worthy than helping disabled people.
--
David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age
More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than
by drinking alcohol.-- W C Fields
in
perl!
In both cases:
If I swap the lines, everything runs smoothly.
Same here. I've CCed p5p on this mail.
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There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.
WHAT MAKES YOU SAY THERE IS A HOLE IN YOUR BUCKET?
a symlink to it in the $PATH.
--
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You know you're getting old when you fancy the
teenager's parent and ignore the teenager
-- Paul M in uknot
On Sat, Oct 13, 2007 at 08:51:52PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(5.10 is rumored to be frozen too, but don't hold your breath. :^) )
It isn't. Raphael was still applying patches earlier today.
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Is there any simple way that people can think of to detect which major
version of OS X my perl code is running on?
ie whether it's 10.0, 10.1 etc, I don't care about the difference
between 10.3.3 and 10.3.4.
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I caught myself pulling grey hairs
On Sun, Oct 14, 2007 at 10:45:30AM -0700, Edward Moy wrote:
% perl -e 'chomp($vers = `sw_vers -productVersion`); print $vers\n'
That will get you either 10.x or 10.x.y. You just need to strip off
the .y if it is there.
Perfect, thanks!
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channel).
This makes perfect sense.
Is it possible to add this seperate channel to Software Update?
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scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation
and the empty string for false.
In numeric context that's the same as returning 1 and 0 because:
'' == 0
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When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life
-- Samuel Johnson
Doug McNutt wrote:
At 15:29 +0100 10/16/07, David Cantrell wrote:
The one I'm most looking forward to is perl being relocatable. Current
versions of perl have the values for @INC hard-coded into the binary at
compile-time.
You can add to @INC in perl 5 by defining an environment variable
macshaggy wrote:
I can't wait for Leopard, but I'm going to have to since I can't
afford to spend the money on it next week.
I can wait for it, because I always like to let other people test an OS
before I use it :-)
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You can't judge
, that
will hopefully provide a template others can use to bundle other
executables and libraries in a CPAN-friendly manner.
Why choose pkg-config? Cos there's a module that depends on it.
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Computer Science is about lofty design goals and careful
exists, and
/sw/share/locale/nl/glibc.mo is present. However,
LANG=nl ls /xx
is still in English. Don't know why.
This seems rather odd.
Anyone know what's going on?
--
David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire
Repent through spending
on Solaris (on a Sparc box)
and NetBSD on Alpha.
I use Parallels because VMware for Mac didn't exist at the time.
I wish that Parallels could run OS X as a 'guest' OS. That Apple won't
allow virtualisation is bloody annoying.
--
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You are so
the
worst, coming in after doing it by hand with paper and pencil and
stabbing yourself repeatedly in the crotch.
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On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:51:03PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
perl 5.9 looks like it has some nice features anyway.
5.10 is out now. Unfortunately it was just a bit too late to make it
into Leopard.
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Eye have a spelling chequer
module that claims to
do the job on OS X. But the tests don't run properly on OS X.
So *maybe* Mac::Clipboard isn't necessary.
--
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There are many different types of sausages. The best are
from the north of England. The wurst
On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 06:23:13PM -0400, Vic Norton wrote:
As far as I can tell Perl on a Mac pays absolutely no attention the
environmental variable PERL5LIB.
I'm afraid that's not the case:
cowshed-door:~ david$ /usr/bin/perl -e '$,=\n;print @INC'
/sw/lib/perl5
/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 02:07:58PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
cowshed-door:~ david$ /usr/bin/perl -e '$,=\n;print @INC'
/sw/lib/perl5
/sw/lib/perl5/darwin
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.6
/Library/Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level
first, just like you normally put your own private binaries
directory at the front of your $PATH.
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You know you're getting old when you fancy the
teenager's parent and ignore the teenager
-- Paul M in uknot
On Thu, Mar 05, 2009 at 01:17:38PM -0600, Bill Stephenson wrote:
Okay, but now I'm curious. What does ord mean?
(or do)
perldoc -f ord
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What profiteth a man, if he win a flame war, yet lose his cool?
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Lesbian bigots try to put finger in linguistic dyke:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7376919.stm
platforms, use the File::Homedir module.
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fdisk format reinstall, doo-dah, doo-dah;
fdisk format reinstall, it's the Windows way
Switch
At least according to Module::CoreList.
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Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused by
poor lifestyle choices, is eight times more likely to
catch TB than a normal person
, then you can expect data
structures to use more memory, up to twice as much in the worst case.
--
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Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!
to troubleshoot this sort of problem, other than
digging through your code?
There are some modules for helping to find memory leaks. I forget their
names, but search for leak on search.cpan.org.
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Arbeit macht Alkoholiker
that may be made to your
startup files elsewhere at a later date.
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Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups
no effect on shell sessions.
Obviously I'm missing something. If I do set it, it seems to have
the same effect ...
Are you using Terminal.app? That's a GUI application, so it takes
effect, and is then inherited by the shell. Try sshing into your
Mac from elsewhere.
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