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Bloor Analyst says FastTrack Gives IBM a Data Integration Advantage

It's going to take a while to work out how useful FastTrack is and whether it will be a popular tool but one industry analyst already likes it.

FAQ 8.14 How do I modify the shadow password file on a Unix system?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

Can I iterate through a file on a CGI page?

Apologies to Perl purists - comp.infosystems.[link] doesn't work on my newsreader, and this is a CGI question: What I want to do is, I've got a large collection of image files: $ wc gallery-pix 37448 62619 3218967 gallery-pix and what I'd like to do is look at each of the 37488 image files on

TieRegistry with IPConfig

I'm trying to remotely look at the NIC cards on W2K3 servers that I have admin accounts on. When I run the following it gives me an error: use strict; use Win32::IPConfig; my $ipconfig; my $host = "some IP address"; # Changed the IP address for posting $ipconfig = Win32::IPConfig->new($host); # This is where it fails when

Is "alter table...drop partition...update global indexes" an online operation..?

Oracle 10.2.0.1 EE on RHEL 4 We have a very large table which is partitioned by range and then further sub partitioned by list. All indexes have been created as locally partitioned but the primary key is a non-partitioned (global) index. When dropping an old partition I am planning on using the 'update

RE Perl Pattern matching

Hi, I am having a string say $str, the value of it is as below: <responseStatus>HTTP/1.1 200 OK</responseStatus> <cookies> <cookie name="ASPSESSIONIDSQDCBDBA" path="/" domain="www- int.juniper.net">DOCFGJEAKNOMB LHCGEMOIMBA</cookie> </cookies> <headers> <header name="Cache-control">private</ header>

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ID3v2 cover art insertion with Perl?

Hi, I'm struggling with my flac->mp3 music library maintenance script. based on some net articles I have used MP3::Tag to attach cover art this way use constant HEADER => ( chr(0x0) , "image/jpeg" , chr(0x0), ""); $img = new Image::Magick; if (! $img->Read("$flacdir/cover.jpg ")) { $id3v2->add_frame( "APIC", HEADER, $img->ImageToBlob(magick => 'jpg'));

tricky use of print?

I found that little can be done on debugging a variable on print, after visiting a page containing the module PadWalker. I wonder whether in Perl can do something like: $newline = '\n' print foo $foo print $newline; I use the vim editor, in this sense, rapid coding and debugging can achieve. But i at least know that the newline trick doesn't work...

FAQ 8.11 How do I decode encrypted password files?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

mismatch between Perl 5.6 and Perl 5.8 in printing high precision values.

printf("%.32g\n",0.99999999976 716936); Perl 5.6.1 output: 0.99999999976716936 --> GOOD Perl 5.8.6 output: 0.99999999976716925 --> ERROR Any reason for such mismatch ? Please let me know how to avoid that or any alternative approach if any. Thanks Vivek

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FAQ 8.25 How can I capture STDERR from an external command?

This is an excerpt from the latest version perlfaq8.pod, which comes with the standard Perl distribution. These postings aim to reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community to review and update the answers. The latest version of the complete perlfaq is at [link] .

materialized view "build deferred" based on a view

Oracle 9.2.0.6 I've got a materialized view based on a view: create materialized view mv_pra_ret_bcret_view build deferred refresh complete as select * from V_PRA_RET (The view serves as a kind of template view - in fact 3 materialized views are based on this template view - just in case somebody might

ASMM question

sga_target_size = 4g sga_max_size = 6g When the instance starts, how much memory will it try to allocate? 6g or 4g? If I run "show sga" on the instance it says total sga size is 6g. If I run "ipcs -ma" on the o/s (solaris 10) it shows the shared memory segment as being only 4g. I'm a little confused as to what's really being allocated as there seems

Download A File

I have a script in /cgi-bin/. I want it when called to download a dynamic file, actually an image to a file on the server. Basically pull a graph from whats actually a router of mine, save it to /temp_images. I have tried using: "system "/usr/bin/wget..." with no luck. Can someone give me a shove in the right direction? I cannot seem to find

How to monitor keyboard inactivity from script

I have a user interface script that makes changes in a db or makes db queries. I don't want the user to just leave the script running all the time. what is the best way to monitor if the script has had no actiivty for 20 minutes? Thanks Mike