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ActiveState Perl 5.10, Windows XP, and DBD-mysql
A few months ago I installed ActivePerl 5.10 on a Windows XP Pro workstation. Next I tried to install DBD::mysql using CPAN, it failed. When I browsed modules via ppm, a GUI in this version of ActiveState Perl on Windows, DBD::mysql was not listed as an available module. I then downloaded the source code, manually…
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Quick way of finding version number of a Perl module
Run this on command line [sourcecode language=”text”] perl -MMyModule -le ‘print “$MyModule::VERSION\n”‘ [/sourcecode] For instance, to find out the version number of DBI installed on the machine, run [sourcecode language=”text”] perl -MDBI -le ‘print “$DBI::VERSION\n”‘ [/sourcecode] To find out the version of DBD::mysql, run [sourcecode language=”text”] perl -MDBD::mysql -le ‘print “$DBD::mysql::VERSION\n”‘ [/sourcecode] One caveat: this…
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WordPress sidebar sinking to the bottom issue in IE fixed
As I mentioned here, I’ve noticed recently that when viewing my site, a WordPress blogging page, in Internet Explorer (I tried IE 6), the sidebar actually appears at the bottom of the page. That was really annoying, because the main reason I redesigned the sidebar was to help people navigate: it has category, archive, blog…
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你用什么方法输入中文？
我虽然可以在Linux或Unix上活动，也用Perl，Vim，正则表达等Unix上出来的东西，但不算专家。为进一步提高自己在这方面的经验水平，我决定在家用Ubuntu，而不仅仅只是用VMWare的虚拟机器。 我在这儿介绍过怎样给英文版的Ubuntu安装中文输入软件。装上之后，发现这个软件提供好几种输入方法。简体的有二笔，二笔－QS，五笔，自然码，和智能拼音。繁体的输入法就更多了，我听说过仓颉和注音，而在下图里罗列的其它方法，以前还真没以任何方式接触或听说过。我用的是简体智能拼音。 Ubuntu上的简体中文输入法 Ubuntu上的繁体中文输入法 在Windows上，我用Google Pinyin，但我对其它中文输入法一直都很好奇：它们都有什么优缺点，哪一个更快（当然会因人而异），因为我只知道一种。不知读者朋友有什么评论和建议。 也曾想过用听写软件代替手输入中文，但从未尝试过，不知这种软件是否成熟。
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Moving data from Sql Server to MySQL
To move data from Sql Server to MySQL, it is certainly possible to use tools that can make connections to both data stores and manipulate data that way, such as Access, Excel, or SSIS. Here I will introduce a process that does not need any special tools or data drivers. Instead, we can use the…