I use cpan to install perl modules all the time. I recently installed Perl LWP. Unfortunately the install replaces and important text command file in /usr/bin. The file head was replaced by LWP head and this has caused some problems on my system. I found it out when I tried to install Sun’s Netbeans IDE […]
I had a very large folder of images that I needed to build a tale of, as well as links for the images. I wrote a perl script to read the directory and build the table based upon the image file names in the folder. For our purposes here I am simplifying the script.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use File::Copy;
my […]
I just launched Skim, the freeware pdf reader and was greeted with the install update screen. Apparently it is now up to 0.5. If you haven’t tried Skim and you do read pdfs, give it a try. It seems odd to me that Skim even exists. Adobe Reader is a perfectly good pdf reader and […]
