TriNetre - Archive for September 23, 2003
(no longer updated)
September 23, 2003
Perl unicode bug in RH9
[Software]
@ 12:43 PM
All you RH9 user out there, if you want to compile any Perl module that uses unicode, set LANG to "en_US" instead of the default "en_US.UTF-8". Example of modules that will face problems would be Archive::Zip, perlTk and Mail::SpamAssassin. Example error message is like
Makefile:88: *** missing separator. Stop.
More info at Red Hat Bugzilla.
[Update] This should hopefully be fixed in Perl 5.8.1 release.
In Perl 5.8.0 all filehandles, including the standard filehandles, were implicitly set to be in Unicode UTF-8 if the locale settings indicated the use of UTF-8. This feature caused too many problems, so the feature was turned off and redesigned.
Foobar2000 0.7
[Software]
@ 11:32 AM
Foobar2000 v0.7 has been released. If you listens to MP3s often and have not tried FB2K, you are missing something cool! Some noteworthy features include:
- Low memory footprint, efficient handling of really large playlists
- Audio formats supported through official addons: MPEG-4 AAC, FLAC, OggFLAC, Monkey's Audio, WavPack, Speex, CDDA, TFMX, SPC, various MOD types; extraction on-the-fly from RAR & ZIP archives
- ReplayGain support
- Highly customizable playlist display
- Customizable keyboard shortcuts
Internet Reborn(?)
[Technology]
@ 10:46 AM
MIT Technology Review reports:
A grass-roots group of leading computer scientists, backed by Intel and other heavyweight industrial sponsors, is working on replacing today's Internet with a faster, more secure, and vastly smarter network: PlanetLab.
For people who are familiar with this field, it is a system of overlay networks that meshes in with the technology of IDS-like softwares on intermediate intelligent-router/nodes, distributed cache and storage - Freenet style. Internet with intelligence where is should always have been - in the network.
