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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.

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.

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 - ...

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.

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

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.

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.

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].

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

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; ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.