The Hive Archive

Today, I was searching Google for help installing Perl modules through CPAN using the default Solaris Perl. Sadly, my own blog was one of the search results, and it was no help. I guess this entry is going to make the situation even worse.

So I suppose I should put some useful information:

• Solaris Perl is compiled using Sun Studio and not gcc
• You must compile Perl modules with the same compiler Perl was compiled with
• The Blastwave Perl is also uselessly compiled using Sun Studio and not gcc
• Sun Studio is now free instead of thousands of dollars and free to download
• The Sunfreeware Perl Package is compiled with gcc. Go sanity!

I’m sure if you cared enough and wanted to waste time, you could download the Sun Studio compiler just for your handful of Perl modules, or you could download the Sunfreeware package and use gcc, the compiler that God intended you to use. Your choice man. BTW, Sun, you suck.

Although I’ve had an Amazon Simple Storage Service account for awhile, I haven’t used it. For those of you who aren’t familiar with S3, Amazon has opened up their resources for everyday people to use. In this instance, you can use their servers as a place to dump your files online. Currently they charge $0.15 per gigabyte of storage used as well as a fee for the bandwidth to transfer it back and forth.

With this setup, they take care of the administration, backup, redundancy, troubleshooting, and the storage scales to whatever you need automatically. I’ve been searching for a good backup script so I can backup all the stuff I have running on this web-host, but most of them have been beta to this point or a pain to setup. Today I finally installed Brackup through CPAN, along with all the requisite Perl modules. I’ve already tested a backup and restore and it seems it will fit my needs well.

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• Python vs __
• python2.5. faster startup, better memory use, faster.
• Python Web Developer Appliance
• Mozilla Python Sidebar
• How Dynamic is too Dynamic