Archive for June, 2008

Jun 19

If you receive the following error when trying to install a CPAN module using Mac OS X Leopard and Perl 5.8.8:

No rule to make target `/System/Library/Perl/5.8.8/darwin-thread-multi-2level/CORE/config.h', needed by `Makefile'.

..then salvation is at hand.

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Jun 17

Download FirefoxWe’d like to show our support for the team over at Mozilla, who today, are trying to break a world record with the number of downloads of their latest offering, Firefox 3.0.

If you are already a Firefox user, please go and update yourself :-)

If you have never tried Firefox *shock* please give it a go! We promise you’ll love it.

You can pledge your support at http://www.spreadfirefox.com/en-US/worldrecord/ and they will let you know as SOON as you can download and help make a record.

Good luck to the Mozilla Firefox team from all of us at iZone!

Jun 6

I recently has a scenario where I had an array of hashes. Each hash represented a row of data for a table and I wanted to sort the whole array by the value of one element of the hash. As you’d expect, Perl has a very nice answer to the problem.

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Jun 1

A phishing attack has been discovered on the UK Government’s Home Office website, The Register reports. The attack, which targets poste.it, the website of Italian bank Poste Italiane, can be found here. The attack was detected by security researchers PrevX and used an RFI exploit via an SQL injection to serve the fraudulent content.

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