Trip To SJ

SW333 is leaving ONT on time, arriving at SJC on time. No surprise since the plane took a nap in ONT.

Once upon arrival, I was whisked to attend IPA cherry picking event in Pomeroy Ranch.

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WR License Server Backup

For an odd reason, Dan is sweating about the license server and he wants it to be backed up.

Apparently it is using Sentinel LM from Rainbow Technologies.

This is the plan:

1. Backup the content of lsdecode.exe -s lservrc
2. Backup lservrc file,
   
3. Just to be sure: I'll image the partition and make the current drive configuration RAID 1 (mirrored).

Unordered Hash Is Killing XML::Simple

One of my big irks about Perl: the index of the hash is not sorted automatically by the order of insertion. Yes, Tie::DxHash should do the trick but XML::Simple doesn't that module.

Maybe it is time to start looking into XML::Simple and see if I could replace the conventional hash with DxHash.

PerlIO-GZip Is Broken

Found a problem with PerlIO-GZip module (v0.17) with ActiveState Perl 5.8.4 + Win2K, apparent it doesn't gunzip a compressed file properly. At first, I suspected a bad gzip file. But the files, extracted using Winzip and GNUWin32 gunzip, are good, so I believe this is a problem with the module.

I will investigate a little more and send the artifacts once I am done with the eDoc scripts.

Currently I extract the files using GNUWin32 gunzip utility and pass the content to STDOUT for parsing.

gunzip.exe -c CompressedFile.gz

Perl 5.10 Nears Code Freeze, Release

Hear, hear: Perl 5.10.0 nears code freeze, release. Couldn't wait for ActiveState to release new Win32 binary since our production is currently using 5.6.1/5.8.4. Testing and upgrade are time hogging processes.

Norco DS-520

MFreeman pointed out Norco DS-520 to me. Product spec: here. Additional review @ engadget: here.

My, o my, should I wait for another 4+ bays NAS from q-nap? Currently the 401 is underpowered.

Great Halloween Swag

Interesting and wonderful - perfect for halloween costume. Filed it under 'todo'.



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