I need donations to CamelBones. Or web hosting customers. Or
consulting clients. Or a plain old-fashioned job. Or something - and
I need it soon.
Hi Sherm,
I have some work for you. I use ruby and the mechanize object to
pull down pages off the web and parse them. There is a lot of
Some people like TextMate also. I think it costs $29.
www.macromates.com/
Joe.
On Oct 5, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Ted Zeng wrote:
BBedit has a free version called textwrangler. You can download
from their site.
It is a very good editor.
Ted zeng
From: Michael Barto [mailto:[EMAIL
Hi everyone,
Thanks to everyone who helped. The problem was within MySql, I
needed to set
grants for the other system. The grants syntax is pretty rough, but
I finally
got it to work on the command line and now I should have no trouble
getting it
to work in perl.
Joe.
On Oct 2,
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I have a application in Perl that prints reports from a MySQL
database. I also have DSL that is accessed via Airport in my house.
Recently I bought an iMac for my wife and I want her
'10.0.1.4' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL
server
Hosea:/Library/MySQL/bin jja$
Joe.
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:23 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Sep 26, 2006, at 12:45 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I have a application in Perl that prints reports from a MySQL
database. I also have DSL
Greetings,
I have a application in Perl that prints reports from a MySQL
database. I also have DSL that is accessed via Airport in my house.
Recently I bought an iMac for my wife and I want her to help me print
reports from this new computer. How do I get her computer to get
data from
Hi everyone,
I found that Now Contact needs to see the type = TEXT and that
records need to be separated with a \r rather than a \n, and import
works fine.
Unfortunately, there is no ability to specify paper size in Now
Contact, so I can't use the lousy program for 11 X 17 paper. I am
Greetings,
I am trying to read a CSV data file of names and addresses into Now
Contact. However the import feature does not see this file as it is
ghosted. My conclusion is that it is looking at the file creator
information.
How do I see this information? Apple-i, Get Info, does not
:
creator:
attributes: avbstclinmedz
created: 06/01/2006 17:58:50
modified: 06/08/2006 11:42:04
[PowerBook-G4:~/Desktop] jja% /Developer/Tools/SetFile -t TEXT c.txt
[PowerBook-G4:~/Desktop] jja%
On Jun 8, 2006, at 11:05 AM, Dominic Dunlop wrote:
On 2006–06–08, at 17:20, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I am
This may not be what you are looking for, but if you were
to name the files in a way that uses the date, then
you can just delete the old ones the next day.
Joe.
On May 28, 2006, at 5:34 PM, wren ng thornton wrote:
--- Chris Devers wrote:
Really??
In my experience, the `open` command
Greetings,
I have this text file I want to read that has ^M as the record
separator (in emacs). Is there a utility on the Mac that i can use
to view this file in hex. I thought i remember something like hex
filename, but it is not there.
Joe.
Hi Chris,
Why wouldn't it work to put the client code and perl on the USB
keydrive and then every ten minutes, your system will get it from
there instead of from your hard drive? I realize the USB keydrive
is slower to load, but does that matter here?
Definitely a thought. I only write
My instant reaction to that would have been putting a stripped-down
whitebox running OpenBSD as a logging firewall between the G5 and
the 'net, to check for attacks on the mail and ftp subsystems.
Can you tell me what a whitebox is?
I have my personal web site on my old clamshell iBook,
I have my personal web site on my old clamshell iBook, and it runs a
dynamic DNS client every ten minutes via cron. That basically keeps
the disk spinning constantly. Burned out a drive last year, and I'm
worried it will burn out a drive this year. So I'm thinking of
putting the client on a RAM
Hi Doug,
I like the idea of efax. It seems good but costs $13/month. That
is a little high for me considering I send or receive about 5 faxes a
year. I wonder if there is another place that only charges when you
do something?
On Jan 18, 2006, at 11:51 AM, Doug McNutt wrote:
At
On Dec 29, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
Maybe it would help to tell you it ain't that simple?
To mention openssl again, it can be installed in a variety of
places, and it depends in part on where other things you may have
installed might have wanted to put the packages they depend
Greetings,
I want to print Avery 6140 labels with name and address from a mac.
Is there a library. If not, does anyone know how to set a font and
tab a certain number of inches to print 3 columns?
Joe Alotta
why not?
On Oct 25, 2005, at 6:13 PM, James Reynolds wrote:
At 1:22 PM -0700 10/14/05, Chris Nandor wrote:
I just uploaded Mac::Apps::Launch. Now IsRunning() returns the
PSN, instead
of simple true/false (1/0).
Here's a fun, simple, and efficient script to kill the Dock (which
should
Greetings,
I know this is off topic, but does anyone know how to set the default
user-agent in Safari to MSIE 6.0 permanently? I have the debug menu
but that doesn't work in websites that open a new window.
Joe.
I think someone needs to build an editor for PDF files. Maybe macros
for emacs or vim.
On Aug 21, 2005, at 4:16 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Aug 20, 2005, at 7:52 PM, Rich Morin wrote:
I'm interested in being able to perform simple edits on PDF files.
For example, I might want to be able
Hi Paul,
I've used the Disk Utility and created a copy that boots. Thank you
it was fun. I haven't done the cron thing yet or the psync over it.
One question, it appears like everything on the restore copy is
exactly the same, however the total file size and the total number of
files
in about 45 minutes without a problem, but I still like
psync better.
Joe.
On Jul 12, 2005, at 1:19 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
Joseph == Joseph Alotta [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joseph Hi everyone,
Joseph Why you are debating the relative merits of psync and rsync.
Joseph Unless I missed
?
It immediately starts creating an index and it is causing my
comnputer to run hot and make everything else run slow.
Joe.
On Jul 13, 2005, at 7:24 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
On Jul 13, 2005, at 1:56 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Hi Randall,
How did you get it to work? I had trouble getting cpan
Hi everyone,
Why you are debating the relative merits of psync and rsync.
Unless I missed something, psync is not available on Tiger anymore
and nobody has a fix for it.
So we don't have the option of using psync.
Joe.
On Jul 12, 2005, at 9:34 AM, Christopher D. Lewis wrote:
On Jul
Greetings,
I was thinking it was about time to do a backup and I was trying to
run psync on Tiger and I got this:
Can't locate MacOSX/File.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /System/Library/
Perl/5.8.6/darwin-thread-multi-2level /System/Library/Perl/5.8.6 /
Man this Mac Mini is _fast_ for a cheap computer. Keeps reasonably
close to my AMD Sempron 2600 with 256M more RAM and regular sized ATA
hard drives. (Sorry about getting in a snit about the iNTEL stuff,
but I just don't see why everyone can't see that even iNTEL has hit
the wall here,
Hi Joel,
What does colocation mean?
Joe.
On Jun 10, 2005, at 8:39 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
On 2005.6.11, at 07:58 AM, Mark Wheeler wrote:
Sorry if this is off topic, but I need to move a shared account to
a dedicated account, but picking a new host provider is a need in
a haystack. So I
On Jun 8, 2005, at 3:27 PM, John Delacour wrote:
At 10:36 am -0700 8/6/05, Edward Moy wrote:
We hope that the additional price our customers pay is justified
by the fit-n-finish that we put into the systems.
The beachballs in Tiger are terrific! If I'd paid the full price
for the
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 game processors instead of
desktop and mobile processors.
Greetings,
I just upgraded to Tiger and I noticed that now the command line mail
system is activated. I had been previously been using a perl program
using MacGlue to put mail into the Mail.app.
I use this program mainly to send myself the output of perl programs
in cron. I have
So I think things are good.
Two questions:
1. How would I test Mac::Glue (simply) to make sure everything is as
it should be?
It already went through tests in the above install. Otherwise, begin
writing your program.
2. Now that Xcode is installed and the cpan module seems to be working
Hi Everyone,
I looked at man security, just for kicks and I dumped the keychains. I
was suprised to find email addresses for people who I do not know. I
am a single user powerbook with dial up 56k access.
Is this normal to have email keychain data for people I do not know?
I could post those
I am wondering that even if you get substr to work, you probably would
have code that
is too specific and hacky. You probably want to match off of some of
the keywords,
so that if things move your program won't break.
Joe.
On Jan 5, 2005, at 3:14 PM, Albert Kaltenbaeck wrote:
I am having
Greetings,
I am using the TableExtracter and it bombs in the line marked with
when it don't match headers for the table. I would like to check to
see if it matched, but I don't know what to check. Can someone please
help me.
my $html = get($url) || warn Can't fetch $url\n;
print
, however, the table extract object behaves the same as the
single table state. So you can just check for rows:
if ($te-rows) {
...
}
Let me know if that doesn't work for you.
Cheers,
Matt
Joseph Alotta wrote:
Greetings,
I am using the TableExtracter and it bombs in the line marked with
when
I am using Now Contact and Now Up-To-Date and it is getting tired.
Does anyone have a recommendation for something Mac-ish that would work
better? Even something that costs a few hundred.
Joe.
On Sep 21, 2004, at 10:50 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
You might be interested in this page, entitled
Looks like this will work:
$ mkdir /tmp/debian
$ mount_ftp ftp://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/
/tmp/debian/
$ ls -la /tmp/debian/
Thanks Chris and Peter for the help.
I couldn't get this to work on ftp-www.earthlink.net. I think it is a
login id problem. mount_ftp uses the same
Hi Ken,
I have been using emacs in one window and a terminal in another window
to run the command line. I tried what you say and the control-z works
to suspend emacs, but I can't seem to get the .login to work to pop me
back into emacs. Does .login work when you start a new terminal
window,
Hi Ingo,
I am using psync on Panther and I like it very much. No trouble, it
just works.
Here is my version info.
Joe.
[Abba:~] josephal% perl -v
This is perl, v5.8.1-RC3 built for darwin-thread-multi-2level
(with 1 registered patch, see perl -V for more detail)
Copyright 1987-2003, Larry Wall
This might be a little out of our developed world mindset, but I have
heard numerous missionaries report that people in their host countries
will do the exorcism first off on all kinds of equipment, especially
cars and trucks and generators and household appliances. The general
conclusion is that
On Jun 14, 2004, at 1:34 PM, Phil Calvert wrote:
At this point, maybe the best thing would be to reinstall osX?
I'm guessing you're a recent refugee from Windows? ;-)
Sir, you wound me! ;-) I've never used a windows for more than a hour
without feeling ill. I will admit to being a long time
** This does not apply to you Sherm **
I asked a question about quoting an argument prior to removing a
directory
to learn something about how the language handles things. I don't know
if
the rmdir method is recursive and/or forced in Perl.. Telling me to
try and
see is a BS answer to give. Of
I think you are missing the point. If a beginner knew the *right*
place to find information, he would not be a beginner.
Meditate on this and think about the time when you were a beginner
and how someone helped you.
Meditate on how the world would be if people in other professions did
the same
Greetings,
I am writing a solving function. You pass it the name of a function
and it
calls the functions many times until it finds the value that returns
zero. How would
this be set up?
sub plusthree {
# the function we are solving for
my ($x) = @_
return $x + 3;
}
sub solve {
#
.
--
Joseph Alotta, Principal
(630) 969-2628
Open Door Investment Advisors, Inc.
www.opendoorinvestments.com
409 North Washington Street
certifiedfinancialplanner_at_earthlink_dot_net
Westmont, IL 60559
On May 3, 2004, at 11:17 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
Oh, certainly - you can interrupt basically anything at all on the
computer with sleep, and it will simply continue where it left off. I
do this all the time with compilations, long-running scientific
experiments, regression tests, etc. on my
Another idea might be to sleep proportional to the length of the URL.
For example, 1k request get 1 second, a 2k request gets 2 seconds. At
least this will slow them down.
Joe.
On May 3, 2004, at 3:16 PM, Ken Williams wrote:
On May 2, 2004, at 8:17 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
My apache log files
...
Jerry
On May 2, 2004, at 9:50 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Jerry,
On May 1, 2004, at 2:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
You might try one more time, the first time takes the longest,
subsequent invocations
just looks at differences...
I can't think of any reason why the program is chewing cpu after
Greetings,
Taking Jerry's recommendation, I downloaded DejaVu and ran it last
night. It started about 10pm and at 12:30pm it was still running and I
went to bed, (my energy savings preferences were set to dvd playback).
I couldn't see any progress bar, although it said it had one. When I
Greetings,
I try to back up my system once a week. I have a firewire disk drive
that I use for this purpose. I have been using the Lacie software that
came with it. Before Panther, I used to be able just to plug it in and
run it under my own id. Now I need to log in as root to run it. Which
On Apr 30, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Jerry LeVan wrote:
Yeah, but the person requesting advice say that he wanted the job
to run at an off time since it tied the machine up for 40 minutes...
It seems that with anacron, I would get into work bright and early, turn
on my machine and it would be useless for
(I just tried, for grins, under 10.2.8, su-ing to an admin user, then
sudo-ing a sh to get a root shell without logging in as root, but
open-ing /Applications/AppleWorks 6 as the root user didn't seem to
do anything other than opening the /Applications directory in a GUI
window. open-ing
* PC users 'fail security tests' *
Better security means not trusting users to do the right thing, argues
an industry expert.
Full story:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/2/hi/technology/3625157.stm
Hi Joel,
I know where you can get an AS400 for the taking. Then you can really
hack away like old times. Maybe you can find a card reader for it?
Joe.
On Apr 18, 2004, at 8:54 PM, Joel Rees wrote:
On 2004.4.17, at 11:45 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote:
It's the 5.9.x track that has the
Ken,
I am sorry but you can't get Vcard to work from here. Because of
insurmountable technical difficulties you need to reconsider you
wedding plans. One alternative is to elope. Another is to marry a
lady with a smaller family in which writing invitations by hand is
possible, unless it is
readable as clear text.
/oliver/
Joseph Alotta
409 North Washington Street
Westmont, IL 60559
(630) 969-2628
jalotta_at_earthlink_dot_net
Chris,
It works like a champ. Thank you so much. I think Mac::Glue is
really cool.
Joe Alotta
On Mar 24, 2004, at 11:24 AM, Chris Nandor wrote:
#!/usr/bin/perl
my $f = new Mac::Glue 'Finder';
$f-obj(file = [EMAIL PROTECTED])-open;
This does require the latest Mac::Glue, 1.19, uploaded
On Mar 29, 2004, at 11:31 PM, Paul McCann wrote:
Hi Joseph,
you wrote...
It's easy to replicate from the Finder. You highlight the files and
double click holding shift down.
Also, you can highlight, then control click getting the menu and then
select open.
Thanks for the explanation, but
:~/oldperlcode] josephal%
On Mar 24, 2004, at 12:07 PM, John Delacour wrote:
At 10:02 am -0600 24/3/04, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I'm still playing around with the applescript code to try to make it
work according to the suggestions here. Seems it needs alias to
tell it to open files, but can't find them
Yes - I think you're kind of right, so, if you have the command line
as such:
system open *.pdf;
This would expand to match everything such as: system open a.pdf
b.pdf c.pdf d.pdf;
Each of the items are treated in an Unix shell as separate arguments.
Now, for (heh heh) arguments sake, if we
On Mar 29, 2004, at 7:10 PM, Paul McCann wrote:
On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Chris Devers wrote:
Unfortunately, I get the same error you do when I try to run it:
$ ./osatest.sh
## Component Manager: attempting to find symbols in a component
alias of type (regR/carP/x!bt)
This is some sort of
Greetings,
I have dozens of these one page pdf files. If I select them all in
finder and
double click, Preview opens them in one window as a multiple-page
document. This is
what I'd like to have happen.
If I do them in perl:
system open *.pdf;
Preview opens them as multiple windows. How
I'm not a major hacker type, like you guys, but nobody mentioned the
bytecode
strategy. Maybe that will work in your case.
Joe.
Chris,
Name is the senders name in english, ie, the part in parenthesis
in [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joseph Alotta).
I found the answer to the problem, there is a reset function in the
Mail.app. You need to control click on the address circle thing and
it is a menu item.
Thank you for your help.
Joe
Greetings,
I used Mac::Glue to send mail using the Mail.app. Notice in my code
below, the commmented out lines that have to do with name. Whatever I
assign name to makes no difference, it still keeps junk in the field
from my prior versions. How can I reset the name field and have some
New! Cool! Wonderful! A Must Have!!
Flame-Deleter is a powerful, perl-based syntactic and grammatical
analyzer, that determines if messages posted to your mailing
list are flame provoking or etiquette babble. It automatically deletes
unwanted ramblings.
Effective! Safe! Low Calorie!
Special
What is top-quoting?
Joe.
On Mar 11, 2004, at 1:21 PM, Morbus Iff wrote:
* no top-quoting.
It goes through all the ftp sites you have listed and tries to find
on that will allow logins.
Does anyone know how to reset the list of ftp sites? Which ones are
most available?
Joe.
On Mar 5, 2004, at 3:04 AM, John Delacour wrote:
I've been meaning to ask this question for months but never
.
On Mar 2, 2004, at 12:17 AM, Wilfredo Sánchez wrote:
ftp://next-ftp.peak.org/next/apps/devtools/macosx/server/Applications/
Mail/CLI/mailapp-utilities/
-wsv
On Mar 1, 2004, at 8:06 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Greetings,
I have some perl programs and I would like to send the output of them
On Mar 4, 2004, at 11:46 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Mar 4, 2004, at 12:10 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
They are four small programs and they are put together in a package
installer bundle. Only thing is that the package installer won't
install. Here is the error message, from Package Installer
Greetings,
I have some perl programs and I would like to send the output of them
to the Mail.app so they look like regular email messages. I couldn't
get any of the unix mail stuff to work, probably because I do not have
sendmail running for security concerns reasons. (I dial up a few times
From the sudo manpage:
-S The -S (stdin) option causes sudo to read the password from
stan-
dard input instead of the terminal device.
Joe Alotta
On Feb 26, 2004, at 9:48 PM, Riccardo Perotti wrote:
On 2/26/04 11:24 AM, Sherm Pendley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Feb 26,
Greetings,
I am having some conceptual problems doing what I think is a fairly
simple
perl task. It is probably that my mind is just blank on this. Could
someone
please recommend a strategy for this.
I have a hash of data:
%highest_level = ( 2001-10-14 = 152, 2002-01-15 = 163, 2003-03-13 =
] josephal% perl /tmp/test
2002-01-15: 163
[Abba:~/oldperlcode] josephal%
It returns the value for 2002-01-05 and not for 2001-12-30.
Also the right value for 2001-12-30 is 152.
Thank you,
Joe Alotta
On Feb 16, 2004, at 3:33 PM, John Delacour wrote:
At 2:01 pm -0600 16/2/04, Joseph Alotta wrote
Greetings,
I am looking for someone to write a subroutine for me
involving graphics and pdf files.
The sub would take some data and plot a line graph
and output the graph as a pdf file.
If you are interested in doing this, please email
me back and I will send you more detailed specs
and we can
Greetings,
Thanks everyone. I couldn't find the XCode update 1.1 on Apple's
website.
Do you think I need to have this installed first, before I try to
install
the DBD mysql?
Joe.
On Jan 30, 2004, at 1:18 AM, Joel Rees wrote:
Thanks everyone. The developer tools I installed is the
Thanks sherm, But I do not have a login. I will
try it anyway without the 1.1 update.
Joe.
On Feb 2, 2004, at 10:50 AM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Feb 2, 2004, at 11:32 AM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
Thanks everyone. I couldn't find the XCode update 1.1 on Apple's
website.
Go to the Apple Developer's
Greetings,
I installed Panther, Developer Tools,
Mysql and now I am trying to use CPAN
to install DBD.
Can you look at this and please tell me what to do next.
Thank you.
Joe Alotta
Abba:/Users/josephalotta root# PATH=$PATH:/Library/MySQL/bin perl
-MCPAN -eshell
Terminal does not support
, at 7:20 PM, Sherm Pendley wrote:
On Jan 29, 2004, at 3:06 PM, Joseph Alotta wrote:
I installed Panther, Developer Tools,
(You get this message, because MakeMaker could not find
/System/Library/Perl/5.8.1/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/perl.h)
This message often means that the developer tools
Greetings,
Since we upgraded to Panther, we have been unable to install the BDB
module and the mysql module or even the Date::Simple module.
My buddy Dennis, is an serious hacker, and he was here till the wee
hours of
the morning trying to make it work and was unable. He even tried to
compile
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