Archive for March, 2008
I just found Strawberry Perl - which purports to be a 100% compatible version of Perl for Windows. I’ll give it a go, might be better than ActiveState Perl (I have found a number of issues with installing modules from CPAN with AS Perl)./
http://strawberryperl.com/
I have to use Windows XP at work, but luckily Perl happily via the ActiveState Perl distribution. They have a package manager called ppm that is really very good at downloading and installing Perl modules. There is a little bit of trickery if you are behind a proxy with the set up so here is [...]
There seems to be a lot of noise about Mono, Novell and Microsoft at the moment, and the suspected use of Mono as a virus with which to infect Free and Open Source activities and software.
There are lots of Mono based applications available in Ubuntu, for example, such as Tomboy, Banshee, F-Spot, and so on, [...]
This was posted as a comment - if anyone knows the answer please put it in a comment on this post.
David Rivkin said, on March 25th, 2008 at 9:46 am
Does anyone know what CMOS Image Sensor is used in this HP Pavilion series? I know the controller is the Sonix but I am not sure [...]
Whilst in Sydney over the weekend for a 40th I very cleverly managed to have my mobile phone fly out of my hand while attempting and drunkenly to hail a taxi. I went to go out into the very busy street to retrieve it, but was prevented from doing so; luckily is seems as the [...]
