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Recent content by sfi

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    Obfuscation Challenge

    What else would one call a hamburger?
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    Obfuscation Challenge

    Cellulose encrusted bovine disc. Where dos the ham come from?
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    Perl editor recommendation...

    Don't forget about jEdit.
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    Good thinking Batman

    Even better than Laaaaance is what he says "So. What your theooooory Darwin
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    What is the difference?

    I assume you mean Australian EST.
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    When to use eq and ==

    if all the characters in the string are numeric use ==, else use eq.
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    Correct use of apostrophes.

    Shouldn't it be "the '80's" since the complete thing actually is "the period 1980 a.d. to 1989 a.d", or perhaps "the decade starting in 1980 a.d."?
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    snmp traps

    You could also check out the PERL area
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    Eats, Shoots & Leaves

    Australian's have a similar punch line for wombats. I wonder which came first?
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    Threads and parallel processing

    Unless you've got multi-processors, conveting to threads would be slower because of the context switching.
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    Practical FCAPS examples

    Try a better search, you are not in the right area.
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    PERL Script calling a TELNET Session

    Try something like ... @response = $telnet->cmd( $cmd); pop @response; # drop the first part of the prompt print @response;
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    Searching an Array for multiple items at specified locations

    Hows about this... (I've been doing PERL lately so forgive the syntax errors) boolean find( char *theString) { int size = 0; char *temp = theString; int nChars = 2; char theChars[] = ('a', 'b'); int nSpots = 2; int theSpots[][nChars] = ((0,3), (4,6)); while...
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    Possible to poll for SNMP traps

    Since UDP may drop messages, some vendors have a series of private OIDs that are used to check for dropped TRAPS. ie. check out the private MIB.
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    Small perl code help!!!

    Try using gmtime(), time(), and localtime() See perlfunc.

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