From eric at uc.org Mon Nov 10 14:12:16 2008 From: eric at uc.org (fishbot) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:12:16 -0500 (EST) Subject: [kw-pm] Smell the approaching Thunder? Message-ID: Smells like ozone and squirrel adrenaline. Just a reminder that the Thunder Talks are coming up fast - not this coming Thursday, but the one after that. If you are one of the people on this list: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?November2008TasteTheThunder you may appreciate a reminder to prepare your short, informal talk. This is that reminder. Not too late for others to sign up. The most affordable bragging rights in town. It costs you only minus one pizza dinner, with sodas. Sodas rule, fishbot From daniel at coder.com Mon Nov 10 14:15:52 2008 From: daniel at coder.com (Daniel R. Allen) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:15:52 -0500 (EST) Subject: [kw-pm] Smell the approaching Thunder? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Mon, 10 Nov 2008, fishbot wrote: > Not too late for others to sign up. The most affordable bragging > rights in town. It costs you only minus one pizza dinner, with > sodas. > > Sodas rule, Sodas!? We only serve pops here! -D > fishbot From rdice at pobox.com Mon Nov 10 14:18:59 2008 From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:18:59 -0500 Subject: [kw-pm] Smell the approaching Thunder? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <5bef4baf0811101418g6af7daa9ma6d01fd628e188a9@mail.gmail.com> > > > Sodas rule, > > Sodas!? We only serve pops here! > Of scholarly interest - http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/ Cheers, - Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From eric at uc.org Mon Nov 10 14:28:06 2008 From: eric at uc.org (fishbot) Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 17:28:06 -0500 (EST) Subject: [kw-pm] Smell the approaching Thunder? In-Reply-To: <5bef4baf0811101418g6af7daa9ma6d01fd628e188a9@mail.gmail.com> References: <5bef4baf0811101418g6af7daa9ma6d01fd628e188a9@mail.gmail.com> Message-ID: >>> Sodas rule, >> >> Sodas!? We only serve pops here! >> > > Of scholarly interest - > http://strangemaps.wordpress.com/2008/08/18/308-the-pop-vs-soda-map/ It's almost as though you two have never heard of ironic archaic-or-misplaced-lexicon noun adoption. I'd discuss, but I am late for a meat tea, and my slacks need pressing. Eric From rpjday at crashcourse.ca Tue Nov 11 06:20:48 2008 From: rpjday at crashcourse.ca (Robert P. J. Day) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 09:20:48 -0500 Subject: [kw-pm] how to tell a perl script not to use /tmp? Message-ID: <20081111092048.9740bprasc0os404@crashcourse.ca> help ... my perl is exceedingly rusty, and i want to be able to modify a program to use something other than /tmp for a temp directory. the (template for the) script is here: http://svn.collab.net/repos/svn/trunk/contrib/client-side/svncopy/svncopy.pl.in and, sadly, it appears to insist on using /tmp for its temporary work, but on the system i am forced to use, /tmp is 99% full. can someone show me how to modify that script to use, say, ~/tmp instead? thanks. rday From rdice at pobox.com Tue Nov 11 07:07:44 2008 From: rdice at pobox.com (Richard Dice) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 10:07:44 -0500 Subject: [kw-pm] how to tell a perl script not to use /tmp? In-Reply-To: <20081111092048.9740bprasc0os404@crashcourse.ca> References: <20081111092048.9740bprasc0os404@crashcourse.ca> Message-ID: <5bef4baf0811110707p5dd1a2c0g7f81722846c71732@mail.gmail.com> > > and, sadly, it appears to insist on using /tmp for its > temporary work, but on the system i am forced to use, /tmp > is 99% full. can someone show me how to modify that script > to use, say, ~/tmp instead? thanks. > I suppose cleaning the garbage out of /tmp isn't an option? It really should be, either by you or someone else. Being able to delete garbage out of /tmp is why it's *called* /tmp Given that you're specifying /tmp rather than C:/temp I'm assuming you're on a Un*x system. This is good information to know. This isn't really an issue of Perl so much as it is a matter of just reading through the code and trying to find where it is that the constant string /tmp would be introduced, and intercepting or recoding that one particular line. Although, knowing something about Perl is going to help in that it will give you a good place to start with reading documentation. At the top of the program, notice: # # Include files # use Cwd; use File::Temp 0.12 qw(tempdir tempfile); use Getopt::Long 2.25; use Pod::Usage; use URI 1.17; That File::Temp reference looks juicy. Read its docs online at http://search.cpan.org/~tjenness/File-Temp-0.20/Temp.pm I got this URL from http://search.cpan.org/ which is Teh R0xor! In this documentation, I notice it says: *tempfile* This is the basic function to generate temporary files. The behaviour of the file can be changed using various options: $fh = tempfile(); ($fh, $filename) = tempfile(); Create a temporary file in the directory specified for temporary files, as specified by the tmpdir() function in File::Spec . There is at least one line in the program that uses this function, my ($handle, $tmpfile) = tempfile( DIR => $temp_dir ); so this could be relevant info. Frankly, looking at this one line makes me want to try just removing the '$temp_dir' variable and throwing '~/tmp' in there, just to see how it works. (Or you could figure out where $temp_dir is set and just set it to "~/tmp" instead.) So anyhow, over to the docs for File::Spec, http://search.cpan.org/~smueller/PathTools-3.29/lib/File/Spec.pm where you'll see: tmpdir Returns a string representation of the first writable directory from a list of possible temporary directories. Returns the current directory if no writable temporary directories are found. The list of directories checked depends on the platform; e.g. File::Spec::Unix checks $ENV{TMPDIR} (unless taint is on) and */tmp*. $tmpdir = File::Spec->tmpdir(); This might be your most elegant fix: just set the TMPDIR environment variable to what you need it to be. Cheers, - Richard -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From roberthpike at yahoo.com Tue Nov 11 12:23:29 2008 From: roberthpike at yahoo.com (Robert Pike) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 12:23:29 -0800 (PST) Subject: [kw-pm] Question regarding cpan Message-ID: <458642.47403.qm@web58706.mail.re1.yahoo.com> I'm trying to run cpan from the command prompt to try and install Date::Calc but part of the message I get back is this : ... ... Have P:\Perl-5.8\lib\Config.pm expected C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the architecture they are running on. ... ... Running make test Can't test without successful make Running make install Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible Failed during this command: STBEY/Date-Calc-5.4.tar.gz : make NO I noticed that on the server there are 2 directories -> C:/Perl and C:/Perl-5.8 (the first I believe is version 5.0 while the latter is 5.8). Does anyone have any suggestions to what I can try to successfully install Date::Calc? Appreciate any help. Thanks. From eric at uc.org Tue Nov 11 16:56:35 2008 From: eric at uc.org (Eric Maki) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:56:35 -0500 (EST) Subject: [kw-pm] Question regarding cpan In-Reply-To: <458642.47403.qm@web58706.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <458642.47403.qm@web58706.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hard to be a lot of help without all the information. A quick peek in ExtUtils reveals that the next line after that initial warning would say what the actual arch mismatch is believed to be. And then somewhere in those dots would be the actual error for the make. But, even with everything carved out, seems likely that you have one perl in your path, but a PERL5LIB for a different perl. Is this your server? If so, get rid of one of the Perls. If it isn't, compare 'perl -V' with your environment. What does "perl -MConfig -le 'print $Config{archlibexp}'" print? What about "perldoc -l Config"? cpan isn't magic, it's not going to be able to figure out how to deal with entangled conflicting versions of Perl. If you can start fresh, you will be happier. If -you- aren't sure which perl is running and should be running, cpan is SOL. fishbot ---- original message : 2008-11-11 12:23pm : Robert Pike ---- > I'm trying to run cpan from the command prompt to try and > install Date::Calc but part of the message I get back is this : > ... > ... > Have P:\Perl-5.8\lib\Config.pm expected C:\Perl\lib\Config.pm > Your perl and your Config.pm seem to have different ideas about the > architecture they are running on. > ... > ... > Running make test > Can't test without successful make > Running make install > Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible > Failed during this command: > STBEY/Date-Calc-5.4.tar.gz : make NO > > I noticed that on the server there are 2 directories -> C:/Perl > and C:/Perl-5.8 (the first I believe is version 5.0 while the > latter is 5.8). Does anyone have any suggestions to what I can > try to successfully install Date::Calc? Appreciate any help. > Thanks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > kw-pm mailing list > kw-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm > From rdemsynj at artsmail.uwaterloo.ca Thu Nov 13 17:20:09 2008 From: rdemsynj at artsmail.uwaterloo.ca (rdemsynj at artsmail.uwaterloo.ca) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 20:20:09 -0500 Subject: [kw-pm] Smell the approaching Thunder? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20081113202009.6ni8g6p74gc8sw4w@www.nexusmail.uwaterloo.ca> I SMELL THE THUNDER, I SMELL IT GOOD! Quoting fishbot : > > Smells like ozone and squirrel adrenaline. > > Just a reminder that the Thunder Talks are coming up fast - not this > coming Thursday, but the one after that. If you are one of the people > on this list: > > http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?November2008TasteTheThunder > > you may appreciate a reminder to prepare your short, informal talk. > This is that reminder. > > Not too late for others to sign up. The most affordable bragging > rights in town. It costs you only minus one pizza dinner, with sodas. > > Sodas rule, > fishbot > > _______________________________________________ > kw-pm mailing list > kw-pm at pm.org > http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm From elbie at trig.net Wed Nov 19 09:37:26 2008 From: elbie at trig.net (Christopher Calzonetti) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:37:26 -0500 Subject: [kw-pm] Smell, hear, feel and taste the thunder! Message-ID: <20081119173726.GC1443@trig.net> Tomorrow's kw.pm talk is rapidly approaching! Let the kw.pm Thunder talks excite your senses! We'll be holding a series of very short (five to ten minute) talks similar to lightning talks, but possibly less organized. Our meeting will be in the usual location, DC3223 at the University of Waterloo, starting at 7pm, Thursday the 20th of November. More specific directions can be found on our FAQ page: http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?FAQ Hope to see you there! -- Christopher Calzonetti, Technical Lead, Trig.Net Web: http://www.trig.net/ Mail: mailto:chris at trig.net From elbie at trig.net Wed Nov 19 09:40:11 2008 From: elbie at trig.net (Christopher Calzonetti) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:40:11 -0500 Subject: [kw-pm] Smell, hear, feel and taste the thunder! In-Reply-To: <20081119173726.GC1443@trig.net> References: <20081119173726.GC1443@trig.net> Message-ID: <20081119174011.GD1443@trig.net> On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Calzonetti wrote: > Our meeting will be in the usual location, DC3223 at the University of > Waterloo, starting at 7pm, Thursday the 20th of November. More specific > directions can be found on our FAQ page: > > http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?FAQ My apologies, the room number is DC3323, not DC3223. Sorry for the confusion. -- Christopher Calzonetti, Technical Lead, Trig.Net Web: http://www.trig.net/ Mail: mailto:chris at trig.net From dc0955 at gates.com Wed Nov 19 10:07:59 2008 From: dc0955 at gates.com (Carr, Dave) Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 11:07:59 -0700 Subject: [kw-pm] Smell, hear, feel and taste the thunder! In-Reply-To: <20081119174011.GD1443@trig.net> References: <20081119173726.GC1443@trig.net> <20081119174011.GD1443@trig.net> Message-ID: <71157FC6AFED794AA91333926F0C23F0010200B2@EXMAIL2.ec.cf.com> Just to get everyone in the mood here's a free sample of scratch-n-sniff ozone! Smell the thunder! Scratch below while sniffing the vents of your computer. [SCRATCH HERE] -----Original Message----- From: kw-pm-bounces+dc0955=gates.com at pm.org [mailto:kw-pm-bounces+dc0955=gates.com at pm.org] On Behalf Of Christopher Calzonetti Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:40 PM To: kw-pm at pm.org Subject: Re: [kw-pm] Smell, hear, feel and taste the thunder! On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 12:37:26PM -0500, Christopher Calzonetti wrote: > Our meeting will be in the usual location, DC3223 at the University of > Waterloo, starting at 7pm, Thursday the 20th of November. More specific > directions can be found on our FAQ page: > > http://kw.pm.org/wiki/index.cgi?FAQ My apologies, the room number is DC3323, not DC3223. Sorry for the confusion. -- Christopher Calzonetti, Technical Lead, Trig.Net Web: http://www.trig.net/ Mail: mailto:chris at trig.net _______________________________________________ kw-pm mailing list kw-pm at pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/kw-pm