Archive for the ‘Computers’ Category

Strawberry Perl, patch.exe and UAC

I work a lot with Perl 5 under Windows and have loved Strawberry Perl so much. I’ve been using ActiveState’s ActivePerl since 2001 and welcomed the UNIX-like experience Strawberry Perl gave me, especially because it was sometimes very hard to get some modules for ActivePerl. Anyhow, in Windows Vista and up the User Account Control [...]

Important Bug Fix in Authen::CAS::External 0.06

Earlier today I released an important bug fix to my distribution Authen-CAS-External (under version 0.06). The bug caused the distribution to fail on CAS deployments where the application was not deployed at the root URL (i.e. https://cas.domain.com/login worked fine, but https://cas.domain.com/cas/login did not work at all). The reason was because the LWP::UserAgent handler rules had [...]

Big Updates to Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP

I was contacted by Peter van Eijk who was interested in getting performance data support added to Nagios-Plugin-OverHTTP and I quickly moved to add it in. Version 0.14 added performance data support and a major overhaul was made to the class layout. I was inspired by the layout of Plack and thought that it was [...]

Experiments with Module::Build

I am using two of my distributions as tests for using Module::Build instead of Module::Install. So far they have only been released as development versions, but I hope to get them out as actual releases. So far I have chosen not to generate any Makefile.PL in the distributions, but I think I will in the [...]

CPAN Bug Tracking

Recently I have been adding my own bug list and todo list to the RT queue of my CPAN modules to track them and help me remember over a longer period of time. I also figure that if they are visible to everyone, perhaps someone may help fix or add a feature.

Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP Planned Additions

I usually get e-mails about my Nagios::Plugin::OverHTTP asking about little things being added here and there. The last e-mail I got was from Peter van Eijk asking for support for performance data. I looked over the code and realized that it really needs some refactoring before I can easily add support for performance data, and [...]

Test::Override::UserAgent

I have just uploaded a new module to the CPAN: Test::Override::UserAgent. This is geared toward developers that use LWP::UserAgent in their modules and want to easily test their code without having a live Internet connection or starting up a test server to make requests against. Just about every single module I have on the CPAN [...]

WWW::USF::Directory Published

I have published my interface to the University of South Florida online directory to the CPAN as WWW::USF::Directory. This is a start to my USF-oriented modules to go up on the CPAN for public use. This module allows you to interact with the USF online directory. It can be used to make a simple directory [...]

Work on Public USF Perl Modules

I am going to be publishing several of my Perl 5 modules that relate to the University of South Florida systems to the CPAN. This will allow anyone to use the modules as they please. I am planning on putting them in the namespace WWW::USF::*. I know that USF may be ambiguous, but feel it [...]

HP Pavilian tx 1000 nVidia problem

This is mostly an update to my previous post on my HP Pavilian tx 1000 issues. As time goes on, the laptop won’t boot up more. Today was the worst of all, though. I have determined that the problem is the same that lots of other people are having, which is where the nVidia GPU [...]