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Jannich Brendle on May 3rd, 2010

If you are trying to download a website with LWP::UserAgent in Perl through HTTPS, you might encounter errors like this: Can’t locate object method “new” via package “LWP::Protocol::https::Socket” The solution to this problem is to install the ssl development libraries, and then install the Crypt::SSLeay Perl module. To do this in Debian or Ubuntu, open [...]

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Jannich Brendle on April 1st, 2010

A couple of days ago, I was pointed to a blog post on SEOmoz, about the fact that Google had indexed some sites that were only used for AJAX and not linked by normal means, from any website. So I decided to see if I could get a site indexed without linking to it anywhere, [...]

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Jannich Brendle on November 10th, 2009

NOTICE: This is not the most updated version of the guide. Please see the blog post called “Compiling conky from git on ubuntu 9.10” for the actual details! From the conky website: Conky is a free, light-weight system monitor for X, that displays any information on your desktop. Conky is licensed under the GPL and [...]

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