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Randal Schwartz’s Perls of Wisdom
If you don’t associate Randal Schwartz with Perl then you obviously don’t know how much of an influence Randal has been in spreading the Perl gospel. Randal has been talking about Perl for years, writing articles and contributing to books like the…
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Announcing Laptop Solaris
Regular readers will know I’ve been a long term fan and user of Solaris, but things in the Solaris space have changed recently. I haven’t used Solaris as a desktop operating system for about 7 years, but for a long time, despite working at an agen…
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Laptop Solaris begins
Welcome to Laptop Solaris, a blog looking at the use of Solaris (and OpenSolaris) on a Laptop. I’ve been a long time user of Solaris and with the announcement of OpenSolaris my interest is further piqued in the direction of Solaris as a full time,…
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Wireless networking in OpenSolaris
No sooner have I started this blog – designed to cover my experiences of using Solaris 10 as the main operating system on my Sony laptop – than the folks at Sun develop the wireless kit to make using a wireless network on your OpenSolaris box avai…
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Welcome to Laptop Solaris
Coming soon…
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Planet MCslp
The MCslp sphere is beginning to expand slightly and to make it easier to monitor everything that I’m doing I’ve decided to aggregate all of the different areas that I’m currently involved in into a single blog. In the spirit of the various ‘plane…
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Welcome to MCslp Map Works
Hello! I’m just about to start working on a some new examples of working with Google Maps and Google Earth. As part of that, I’ve decided to set up a new website, both to host the examples and to act as a repository for informaiton on how I’m doin…
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Degunking Linux
It may seem like this is all I’ve been doing for the past few months, but I have yet another book review that has made it on to the ‘free’ area of Free Software Magazine. This time it is Degunking Linux by Roderick W Smith. At its heart, this book…
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Linux Server Security
Frequently you will hear about how secure Linux is as an operating system. Although a lot of the security of the OS comes from the many eyes examining the code and the strong developer spirit that means software is frequently updated and improved,…
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Regular Expression Recipes, by Nathan Good
I’m a regular expression junkie – I think one of the main reasons I love Perl so much is because it’s just so darn easy to go ahead and regexp either with a substitution or match to get the information I want. It certainly makes certain parts of m…