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14 hrs ago | Edgeos

USN794-1 : libcompress-raw-zlib-perl, perl vulnerability

These remote packages are missing security patches : - libcgi-fast-perl - libcompress-raw-zlib-perl - libperl-dev - libperl5.10 - perl - perl-base - perl-debug - perl-doc - perl-modules - perl-suid Description: It was discovered that the Compress::Raw::Zlib Perl module incorrectly handled certain zlib compressed streams.

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Related Topix: Programming Languages, Science / Technology, Ubuntu, Open Source Software

Wed Jul 08, 2009

Online Tech Tips

How to mass rename files using File Renamer Basic

Sometimes I need to mass rename files using a rule.A A For example, I might need to rename files to change all file extensions from AVI to DOC to hide movie files from my nosy officemate.

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Tue Jul 07, 2009

SecurityFocus Vulnerabilities

Bugtraq: [SECURITY] [DSA 1828-1] New ocsinventory-agent packages fix arbitrary code execution

Nico Golde -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Debian Security Advisory DSA-1828-1 security debian org [email concealed] http://www.debian.org/security/ Nico Golde July 7th, 2009 http://www.debian.org/security/faq - ...

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Planet Perl

Italian Perl Workshop 2009 guests

Journal written by bepi and posted by davorg on 2009.07.07 4:15 The preparations for this year's Italian Perl workshop are hotting up, and thanks to the sponsors, we have invited some great guest speakers for the international tracks : Tim Bunce , Perl DBI interface author.

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Mon Jul 06, 2009

Filepedia.com

Notepad++ Portable v5.4.4

Notepad++ is a free source code editor which supports several programming languages running under the MS Windows environment.

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Sun Jul 05, 2009

Planet Perl

Let me be clear, again, about the nature of the DarkPAN.

The growth in the argument that the DarkPAN is somehow some form of boogieman, some wispy vaporous nothing that is unobservable and thus something able to be ignored astonishes me.

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Sat Jul 04, 2009

Planet Perl

Why "Shut Up and Write Code!" is Unhelpful and Wrong

The Perl community needs to discuss the DarkPAN and the present and future of the language and its ecosystem in much more productive ways than accusations, hyperbole, and strawmen.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

Planet Perl

Need for Speed Part I: DBIx::Class vs DBI

Just in case you like to know, I'm currently full-time father of 2 kids, half-time Perl hacker, sort-of DJ, bicyclist, no longer dreadlocked and 33 years old I'm also head of Vienna.pm [pm.org], maintainer of the CPANTS [perl.org] project, member of the TPF Grants Commitee [perlfoundation.org] and the YAPC Europe Foundation [yapceurope.org].

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Freshmeat

Padre 0.38

Padre is an IDE for Perl developers. It provides syntax highlighting for many languages, but for Perl it also provides refactoring tools.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Planet Perl

Calling All Test:: Authors

The latest developer release of Test::More allows subtests. Subtests are great in that they solve a lot of problems in advanced Perl testing, but they have required a change in Test::Builder . Previously you could do stuff like this: package Test::StringReverse; use base 'Test::Builder::Module'; our @EXPORT = qw ; my $BUILDER = Test::Builder->new; ...

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Planet Perl

looking for CPANTS (co-) maintainers

Just in case you like to know, I'm currently full-time father of 2 kids, half-time Perl hacker, sort-of DJ, bicyclist, no longer dreadlocked and 33 years old I'm also head of Vienna.pm [pm.org], maintainer of the CPANTS [perl.org] project, member of the TPF Grants Commitee [perlfoundation.org] and the YAPC Europe Foundation [yapceurope.org]. Monday ...

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Sun Jun 28, 2009

C0t0d0s0.org

Danish people speak HTML

The nice thing about Perl is the point, that there is always someone who has solved the problem you have at the moment.

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Fri Jun 26, 2009

Freshmeat

rspamd 0.2.0

Rspamd is an anti-spam system designed to work faster than SpamAssassin by using event model and regular expression optimization.

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Wed Jun 24, 2009

Rhizome.org

Futurespeak: Shane Hope's Keywords Defined

Shane Hope 's sprawling prints can't be processed with one or two looks. They are built on thousands of tiny details, rather than around a single focal point, and as the eye travels across the picture field, it sees lines and pieces accumulating in recognizable bodies and then collapsing into chaos, or maybe an order that can't be discerned by the ...

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

Freshmeat

mylvmbackup 0.12

To perform a backup, mylvmbackup obtains a read lock on all tables and flushes all server caches to disk, makes an LVM snapshot of the volume containing the MySQL data directory, and unlocks the tables again.

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Sun Jun 21, 2009

SAP Developer Network SAP Weblogs

Thanks - works on Fedora Core 10

For system and application administrators, identifying issues in the system as soon as they occur can be key to keeping these issues from ballooning into outages.

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Fri Jun 19, 2009

Kansas City InfoZine

Regular Expressions Cookbook

Sebastopol, CA - infoZine - Every programmer can find uses for regular expressions, but their power doesn't come worry-free. Even seasoned users often suffer from poor performance, false positives, false negatives, or perplexing bugs.

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Related Topix: Sebastopol, CA, Recipes, Programming Languages, Science / Technology, Computers

Wed Jun 17, 2009

Planet Perl

Request for Assistance - The most important toolchain bug

Now that my blog is listed on the Ironman planet, Matt Trout has loaned me his chainsaw and suggested that asking for help here is likely to garner a response, because he says so.

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Mon Jun 15, 2009

Planet Perl

Pelr 6 Design Minutes for 06 June 2009

The Perl 6 design team met by phone on 06 May 2009. Larry, Allison, Patrick, Nicholas, and chromatic attended.

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SitePoint Blogs

40 Essential iPhone Applications For Web Designers

Web designers can be struck with inspiration at any time, but if you're away from your computer there isn't much you can do.

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Related Topix: Web Design, Arts, iPhone, Computers, iPod, Programming Languages, Science / Technology, PHP

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