From bpm at binarymojo.net Wed Sep 3 15:35:45 2003 From: bpm at binarymojo.net (Kevin Christopher) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Next Meeting of the Buffalo Perl Mongers Message-ID: <4250.64.65.247.81.1062621345.squirrel@my.modwest.com> In case you're wondering, we will be having our September meeting on Thursday the 11th, 7:00 p.m., at Bell Hall on UB's North Campus. Scheduled speakers are Jim Brandt and Kevin Eye, who'll be talking about mod_perl and FastCGI. I'll post to the list and the site (http://buffalo.pm.org) very soon to confirm a room and better describe the scheduled discussion. See you next Thursday evening. From dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com Thu Sep 4 12:44:10 2003 From: dmagnuszewski at yahoo.com (Daniel Magnuszewski) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Malformed UTF-8 character... Message-ID: <20030904174410.59434.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> Skipped content of type multipart/alternative-------------- next part -------------- package MRTGViewerConfig; # -- sub Load { my $Self = shift; ########################################################### #----------------- CONFIG OPTIONS ------------------------# # START EDITING HERE! # ########################################################### # CGI-BIN Directory $Self->{CGIBIN} = "/var/www/cgi-bin/mrtgv-2/"; # Directory of MRTG Configuration $Self->{MRTGConfDir} = "/etc/mrtg/"; # The script will try to search all directories from this main directory $Self->{MRTGMainWorkdir} = "/usr/local/mrtg/cfgs/"; # Subdirectories # 0 = no subdirectories # 1 = enable subdirectories $Self->{Subdirectory} = "1"; # Valid Subdirectories # Separate by space $Self->{ValidSubdirectories} = "pregi-net asti-net asti-net.err pregi-net.err"; # Critical mrtg links directory # These are the links for UP/DOWN monitoring # For notification purposes $Self->{CriticalLinksDir} = "pregi-net asti-net"; # Persons to notify when link is down/resumed operation # separate entries with one space only #$Self->{NotifyEmail} = "edwinv\@asti.dost.gov.ph cwgueco\@asti.dost.gov.ph"; $Self->{NotifyEmail} = "edwinv\@asti.dost.gov.ph"; # Enable Gnokii $Self->{Gnokii} = "0"; # 1 -> enable gnokii (permit miscol to admin if trouble detected) # 0 -> disable gnokii function # Number to Notify via Missed Call $Self->{MisColNumber} = "09202612660"; # HTML title tag $Self->{HTMLTitle} = "MRTG Viewer: PREGINET Network"; # Page Content Title $Self->{PageTitle} = "PREGINET Network Status"; #-- Page Content Title $Self->{Title} = "MRTG Viewer: Philippine Research Education and Government Information Network (PREGINET)"; #-- Body Coolor #$Self->{bodyColor} = "lightblue"; $Self->{bodyColor} = "#94D7EF"; #-- Font Styles $Self->{Font1} = ""; $Self->{Font2} = ""; #-- Page Footer $Self->{Footer} = "
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DON'T EDIT THE CODE BELOW! # ########################################################### } # -- sub new { my $Type = shift; my %Param = @_; # allocate new hash for object my $Self = {}; bless ($Self, $Type); # load config $Self->Load(); return $Self; } # -- sub Get { my $Self = shift; my $What = shift; return $Self->{$What}; } # -- 1; From bpm at binarymojo.net Thu Sep 4 16:06:21 2003 From: bpm at binarymojo.net (Kevin Christopher) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] September Perl Mongers Meeting Message-ID: <5840.64.65.247.81.1062709581.squirrel@my.modwest.com> We're set with the room. Fuller description of next Thursday's topic follows: Regularly Scheduled Perl Mongers Meeting Thursday, September 11 7:00 to 9:00 pm Bell 242 UB North Campus FastCGI and mod_perl: Serving Up Dynamic Content Faster Jim Brandt, analyst with Administrative Computing Services, University at Buffalo, and Kevin Eye, Web applications developer with Creative Services and Marketing Department at University at Buffalo, will compare mod_perl and FastCGI, two nonproprietary solutions for accelerating dynamic content. mod_perl brings together two of the most powerful and mature technologies available to the web professional today. mod_perl can accelerate your existing dynamic content with the standard Apache::Registry module and reduce the load on your server at the same time. mod_perl allows Perl programmers to write powerful custom Apache modules to extend and tap into the power of the world's most popular http server. FastCGI is a fast, open, and secure Web server interface that solves the performance problems inherent in CGI, without introducing the overhead and complexity of proprietary APIs. FastCGI's advantages include performance boosts through persistent processes reused to handle multiple requests; simplicity, with easy migration from CGI, and language independence. -Kevin From fhew3 at cogeco.ca Thu Sep 4 17:29:44 2003 From: fhew3 at cogeco.ca (fulko) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Malformed UTF-8 character... References: <20030904174410.59434.qmail@web21104.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <3F57BCD8.BEB55C3B@cogeco.ca> Daniel Magnuszewski wrote: > When I try to run a script, I get the following error - > which occurs within one of the packages (attached): > > Malformed UTF-8 character (unexpected non-continuation > byte 0x61, immediately after start byte 0xf1) at line 69. > > Can someone shed some light on this problem, and also any > suggestions that would help correct this. The box is running > RH 8.0 with Perl 5.8.0. try: export LANG=en_US This will disable the automatic UTF handling that Perl currently does. I understand fron the release notes that the next version of perl (5.8.1?) may go back to having thios off by default, cause it breaks a bunch of things. I got similarly caught twice by it this past month alone! From fhew3 at cogeco.ca Mon Sep 8 19:54:53 2003 From: fhew3 at cogeco.ca (fulko) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Invitation to/for TPM September Lightning Talks Message-ID: <3F5D24DD.E96B3C39@cogeco.ca> This a general call for participation with the Toronto PM's annual 'Lightning Talk' meeting scheduled for this month on September 25. So far we already have the following topics: Internet access using GPRS - Indy Singh Tk: Tcl versus Perl - Fulko Hew Import, Export and Tags - Richard Dice When UTF does the Un-expected - Glenn Simpson Giving a lightning talk is easy! 1/ Pick a topic 2/ Ramble on for about 5 minutes 3/ Stop when the bell sounds. You can talk about just about anything you want... something you've done, something you want to do, something you want to know, something you're having problems with, something you hate about Perl, something you love about Perl, your favourite CPAN module, etc. So come on people, I know you all have 5 minutes in you. How about a competition? Can the Buffalo mongers come up with better or more topics than the KW mongers, or will the Toronto mongers do it. We are hoping to get the nearby mongers to attend, so let's make it all worth our while. If you have a topic either email your emcee and moderator your topic to: fhew3 at cogeco dot ca or update the Kwiki page yourself at: http://to.pm.org/cgi-bin/kwiki/index.pl?sept2003agenda Oh, and as encouragement to particpate, I promise to stop sending annoying 'call for particpation' messages every few days once we get a dozen topics submitted! From Fulko.Hew at sita.aero Tue Sep 9 08:38:15 2003 From: Fulko.Hew at sita.aero (Fulko.Hew@sita.aero) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] wrong email address for TPM sept meeting submissions Message-ID: Sorry all... I posted the wrong email address in the Toronto PM Lightning talk announcement email last night. Please use: fhew3@cogeco.ca From bpm at binarymojo.net Tue Sep 9 13:47:50 2003 From: bpm at binarymojo.net (Kevin Christopher) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Fwd: [Buffalo-pm] Invitation to/for TPM September Lightning Talks] Message-ID: <9110.64.65.247.81.1063133270.squirrel@my.modwest.com> I'm passing along a call for Lighting Talks at next TPM meeting (9/25). In case you're wondering how you will get there if you want to give a lightning talk or just sit in, I for one plan on going up to TO and will take as many as will fit into my car (trunk excluded). We can discuss car pool plans at this Thursday's meeting. Kevin -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Invitation to/for TPM September Lightning Talks From: fulko Date: Mon, September 8, 2003 8:54 pm To: tpm@to.pm.org, buffalo-pm@mail.pm.org, kw-pm@mail.pm.org This a general call for participation with the Toronto PM's annual 'Lightning Talk' meeting scheduled for this month on September 25. So far we already have the following topics: Internet access using GPRS - Indy Singh Tk: Tcl versus Perl - Fulko Hew Import, Export and Tags - Richard Dice When UTF does the Un-expected - Glenn Simpson Giving a lightning talk is easy! 1/ Pick a topic 2/ Ramble on for about 5 minutes 3/ Stop when the bell sounds. You can talk about just about anything you want... something you've done, something you want to do, something you want to know, something you're having problems with, something you hate about Perl, something you love about Perl, your favourite CPAN module, etc. So come on people, I know you all have 5 minutes in you. How about a competition? Can the Buffalo mongers come up with better or more topics than the KW mongers, or will the Toronto mongers do it. We are hoping to get the nearby mongers to attend, so let's make it all worth our while. If you have a topic either email your emcee and moderator your topic to: fhew3 at cogeco dot ca or update the Kwiki page yourself at: http://to.pm.org/cgi-bin/kwiki/index.pl?sept2003agenda Oh, and as encouragement to particpate, I promise to stop sending annoying 'call for particpation' messages every few days once we get a dozen topics submitted! _______________________________________________ Buffalo-pm mailing list Buffalo-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm From cbrandt at buffalo.edu Thu Sep 11 10:26:42 2003 From: cbrandt at buffalo.edu (Jim Brandt) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: Fwd: [Buffalo-pm] September Perl Mongers Meeting Message-ID: <58C45458-E46C-11D7-BF85-000A9588183A@buffalo.edu> Haven't seen a reminder about the meeting, so here it is. The meeting is *tonight* and details are below. Attendance has been a bit low, so if you're on the list, think about coming tonight. Even if you're not coming, pass the details along to a friend or colleague who might have a passing interest in mod_perl. These technologies have a certain "buzz", but many times people don't really know what they're about. This is a great opportunity to point people to a free talk on the how's and why's. Bring your questions! If you're on other lists, forward it to the lists! Let's try to pull together a strong turn-out tonight! See you all there. Jim Begin forwarded message: > From: "Kevin Christopher" > Date: Thu Sep 4, 2003 5:06:21 PM Canada/Eastern > To: > Subject: [Buffalo-pm] September Perl Mongers Meeting > Reply-To: bpm@binarymojo.net > > We're set with the room. Fuller description of next Thursday's topic > follows: > > Regularly Scheduled Perl Mongers Meeting > Thursday, September 11 > 7:00 to 9:00 pm > Bell 242 > UB North Campus > > FastCGI and mod_perl: Serving Up Dynamic Content Faster > > Jim Brandt, analyst with Administrative Computing Services, University > at > Buffalo, and Kevin Eye, Web applications developer with Creative > Services > and Marketing Department at University at Buffalo, will compare > mod_perl > and FastCGI, two nonproprietary solutions for accelerating dynamic > content. > > mod_perl brings together two of the most powerful and mature > technologies > available to the web professional today. mod_perl can accelerate your > existing dynamic content with the standard Apache::Registry module and > reduce the load on your server at the same time. mod_perl allows Perl > programmers to write powerful custom Apache modules to extend and tap > into > the power of the world's most popular http server. > > FastCGI is a fast, open, and secure Web server interface that solves > the > performance problems inherent in CGI, without introducing the overhead > and > complexity of proprietary APIs. FastCGI's advantages include > performance > boosts through persistent processes reused to handle multiple requests; > simplicity, with easy migration from CGI, and language independence. > > -Kevin > > > _______________________________________________ > Buffalo-pm mailing list > Buffalo-pm@mail.pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/buffalo-pm > ========================================== Jim Brandt Administrative Computing Services University at Buffalo From jlf27 at cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Sep 11 14:16:05 2003 From: jlf27 at cse.Buffalo.EDU (Jesse L Farinacci) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Perl Discussion Board Message-ID: <20030911191604.GA11761@cse.Buffalo.EDU> hello all--i've been placed into a position where i am required to provide a bulletin / discussion board on a website for another group.. unfortunately, our local server (wings.buffalo.edu) does not offer php (i am a big phpBB junkie) but will allow us to use cgi script capabilities. i'm not happy at the prospects of rolling my own for such a large item, and the prospects available on sourceforge are not looking so great. any help would be appreciated! see ya at the meeting tonight, -jesse -- "To live forever, or die in the attempt." Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 185 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/buffalo-pm/attachments/20030911/74f4043a/attachment.bin From rjraux at cse.Buffalo.EDU Thu Sep 11 14:37:26 2003 From: rjraux at cse.Buffalo.EDU (Rob Raux) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Perl Discussion Board In-Reply-To: <20030911191604.GA11761@cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030911191604.GA11761@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: Jesse et al. If you have a bit of money to spend on this and want to purchase a professional, widely used product, I would suggest: http://www.infopop.com/products/ubbclassic/ Ultimate Bulletin Board. If your place of work prefers free, and who doesn't, I would suggest looking at YaBB. I have more limited experience with this, but I have heard nothing but good things. http://www.yabbforum.com/ See you all tonight, Rob On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jesse L Farinacci wrote: > hello all--i've been placed into a position where i am > required to provide a bulletin / discussion board on a > website for another group.. unfortunately, our local > server (wings.buffalo.edu) does not offer php (i am a > big phpBB junkie) but will allow us to use cgi script > capabilities. i'm not happy at the prospects of rolling > my own for such a large item, and the prospects available > on sourceforge are not looking so great. any help would > be appreciated! see ya at the meeting tonight, > > -jesse > > -- > "To live forever, or die in the attempt." > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > From dudek at buffalo.edu Thu Sep 11 16:14:22 2003 From: dudek at buffalo.edu (David Dudek) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Perl Discussion Board In-Reply-To: <20030911191604.GA11761@cse.Buffalo.EDU> References: <20030911191604.GA11761@cse.Buffalo.EDU> Message-ID: PHP is on the Wings server, and it works fine. I think what you are referring to is the fact that MySQL is not installed on Wings. Oracle 8i is installed, although most PHP bulletin boards don't use Oracle. -- David Thomas Dudek http://www.buffalo.edu/~dudek/ On Thu, 11 Sep 2003, Jesse L Farinacci wrote: > Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 15:16:05 -0400 > From: Jesse L Farinacci > To: Buffalo Perl-Mongers > Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Perl Discussion Board > > hello all--i've been placed into a position where i am > required to provide a bulletin / discussion board on a > website for another group.. unfortunately, our local > server (wings.buffalo.edu) does not offer php (i am a > big phpBB junkie) but will allow us to use cgi script > capabilities. i'm not happy at the prospects of rolling > my own for such a large item, and the prospects available > on sourceforge are not looking so great. any help would > be appreciated! see ya at the meeting tonight, > > -jesse > > -- > "To live forever, or die in the attempt." > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. > See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > From bpm at binarymojo.net Tue Sep 16 23:02:12 2003 From: bpm at binarymojo.net (Kevin Christopher) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] BPM News Message-ID: <32872.67.75.59.178.1063771332.squirrel@my.modwest.com> Buffalo PM News: (1) Sept. 11 Meeting (2) Trip to TO? ------------------------------------------------------------------ (1) Our September 11 Meeting: If you missed last Thursday's meeting (Jim Brandt and Kevin Eye's talk on mod_perl and FastCGI, a .ppt file is now available at http://buffalo.pm.org. It was a great introduction and discussion from two BPM members who use these tools in the real world to serve up dynamic content fast on high-load UB sites. Jim Brandt, who is the offical YAPC::2004 Coordinator, discussed the plans for the conference, which will be held at UB, June 16-18. Info on our YAPC wiki ( http://buffalo.pm.org/yapc ). All present at our last meeting seemed to think that it would be a good idea to have "lightning talks" for our next meeting on October 9. Lighting talks are short, 5-min. talks on any Perl-related subject you want to bring up: you can talk about a project your working on, a module you like, problems, likes or dislikes about Perl, a syntax feature you find really cool, etc. It's a great informal way to talk about the things about Perl that interest you without the commitment of putting together a full-length talk. For some more info about what Perl lightning talks are all about, go to http://perl.plover.com/lt/lightning-talks.html. To add your name and topic to the list for the October meeting, go to http://buffalo.pm.org/kwiki/admin.cgi?BuffaloLightningTalks (2) Road Trip to TO? If you want to try your hand at a lightning talk before October 9 (or just go to meet Perl hackers on the other side of the border), all BPM members are welcome to attend the next meeting of the Toronto Perl Mongers on Thursday, September 25. If anyone else wants to go, I'm willing to drive (have room for three or four people. The meeting begins at 6:45, so we'd have to leave at 4 pm latest. If you're interested, please let me know by the end of this weekend at the latest (Sunday,21st). You don't have to commit to giving a lighting talk to go, but if that's your plan , you should also sign up asap on the TPM list (see message in our mailing list archives: http://mail.pm.org/pipermail/buffalo-pm/2003-September/000074.html ). Kevin Christopher kevin@binarymojo.net From bpm at binarymojo.net Wed Sep 17 11:24:10 2003 From: bpm at binarymojo.net (Kevin Christopher) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] BPM News- Wrong Link Message-ID: <5132.64.65.247.81.1063815850.squirrel@my.modwest.com> Whoops! I gave the wrong link for the Oct.9 Lightning Talks, go instead to: http://buffalo.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?BuffaloLightningTalks Kevin > Kevin, > > I think this link isn't what you want. It asks me for a password! > > http://buffalo.pm.org/kwiki/admin.cgi?BuffaloLightningTalks > > > Perhaps this is more to your liking? > > http://buffalo.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?BuffaloLightningTalks > > Rob >... From fhew3 at cogeco.ca Fri Sep 19 20:34:03 2003 From: fhew3 at cogeco.ca (fulko) Date: Mon Aug 2 21:25:57 2004 Subject: [Buffalo-pm] Invitation (nag) to/for TPM September Lightning Talks References: <3F5D24DD.E96B3C39@cogeco.ca> Message-ID: <3F6BAE8B.18FFBC06@cogeco.ca> Like I said a week or so ago... Toronto PM's annual 'Lightning Talk' meeting is scheduled for this Thursday, September 25. So far we already have the following topics: Internet access using GPRS - Indy Singh Tk: Tcl versus Perl - Fulko Hew Import, Export and Tags - Richard Dice When UTF does the Un-expected - Glenn Simpson Movable Type plug-ins for World Peace - Michael Graham Introduction to Co-routines (Perl 6) - John Macdonald A Pool Full of Daemon Children - Alan Barclay Top Ten Benefits Of Being A Member Of The Toronto Perl Mongers - Eric Bower The Gong Show - Fulko Hew And an unknown talk by Daniel Allen, and hopefully one talk from Alan Rocker, (who apparently volunteered to give one). We have a great selection so far, but I'd like to get a few more on the books before Thursday. All topics welcome. Lots of fame (I promise), but alas... no fortune. We are also hoping to get visitors (and speakers) from our friends from both K-W and Buffalo! So if you've got a favorite topic, or bug-a-boo that you'd like to talk about, let me know. Your evenings' host, Fulko