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I was just reading up on perl, since one of my friends suggested
perl would be a great alternative to writing complex bash shell
scripts loaded with embedded awk and sed scripts.<br>
<br>
I love ruby's regex, so my friend asked, "why dontcha just use Perl?
Perl's basically a level 80 version of bash, sed and awk."<br>
<br>
So I explored perl.org, while i had tabs open on openbsd and ppp
dial-in with usb modems.<br>
<br>
Did you know? It's surprisingly trivial to configure openbsd with
usb modems.<br>
<br>
USB TrendNET dialup modems work out of the box with openbsd, by way
of the umodem driver, if I recall correctly.<br>
<br>
Since PPP works both ways, you can create point to point dialup
connections, just like people used to do back in the day for dialup
bulletin board systems. Some BBS's are still online!<br>
<br>
Honestly, with things like facebook and twitter, we should just go
back to using UUCP-based Usenet. Usenet does all the same things,
except better. You can attach binary files, you can publish and
subscribe to news, except your data is probably a lot more secure
and private. You can use pgp file encryption for your publications
so only users with the secret key can read them.<br>
<br>
There are so many things the kids these days just don't appreciate
anymore.<br>
<br>
I hope they have vacuum tubes and analog computers at DMS. I never
got to see them.<br>
<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 10/17/2013 1:29 AM, John Fields
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Alex,<br>
Lucky for you Dallas can satisfy all your culinary loves. :)<br>
How long are you in town? <br>
<br>
We meet on the 2nd Wed of every month, at the DallasMakerspace.org
facility.<br>
If you are just popping through, give us a shout and I'm sure we
can arrange at least a dinner to say hello.<br>
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