Firefox 89 appearance

Upgraded to Firefox 89 this morning and I have to say that I do not like the new appearance! Within 10 minutes I’d found a few articles about how to customise and it make it look a bit like the previous version. For comparison, this is Firefox 88. And this is Firefox 89. A very… Continue reading Firefox 89 appearance

Using the spamassassin URIBL check on a primary nameserver

Usually on a primary nameserver for a number of domains, you shouldn’t be using the local nameserver for your DNS lookups. The reason for this is that if a domain is transferred away from the nameserver without your knowledge, any local lookups for that domain will continue to give the old results and this could… Continue reading Using the spamassassin URIBL check on a primary nameserver

Installing DBD::mysql on Mavericks

3 years ago, I posted about getting DBD::mysql to build on OSX 10.6 – it seems the same thing works on Mavericks (10.9) as well! #   Failed test ‘use DBD::mysql;’ #   at t/00base.t line 18. #     Tried to use ‘DBD::mysql’. #     Error:  Can’t load ‘/Users/simon/.cpan/build/DBD-mysql-4.027-wbgMWL/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle’ for module DBD::mysql: dlopen(/Users/simon/.cpan/build/DBD-mysql-4.027-wbgMWL/blib/arch/auto/DBD/mysql/mysql.bundle, 2): Library not loaded: libmysqlclient.18.dylib #  … Continue reading Installing DBD::mysql on Mavericks

cpan2rpm for CentOS 6.5

I’ve been attempting to build all the dependencies for Dancer on CentOS 6.5 and things just kept going wrong. Several of the modules complained about needing perl >= 5.006 even though CentOS 6.5 comes with Perl 5.10. [mockbuild@build6 ~]$ cpan2rpm Test::Simple — cpan2rpm – Ver: 2.028 — Upgrade check Fetch: HTTP — module: Test::Simple –… Continue reading cpan2rpm for CentOS 6.5

cpan2rpm on CentOS 6.4

I’ve just been building up a new server with CentOS 6.4 and noticed that cpan2rpm wouldn’t work for some Perl modules. The error you get is as follows. Metadata retrieval Can’t locate object method “interpolate” via package “Pod::Text” at /usr/bin/cpan2rpm line 522. Turns out it’s because Pod::Text changed between the version that comes with CentOS… Continue reading cpan2rpm on CentOS 6.4