Dave Holland's home page

Linux and, er, badgers
3:12pm, Wednesday 8 September 2004

Linux where you never expected to find it...

Preparing for emergencies
3:03pm, Thursday 29 July 2004

Compare and contrast:

http://www.preparingforemergencies.gov.uk vs http://www.preparingforemergencies.co.uk

One in a million
11:36am, Thursday 29 July 2004

I am now connected to more than a million people through Orkut. This is quite odd, since I'm only directly linked to ten of those, and out of those ten, I've only met eight of them in real life...

Top 500
2:54pm, Monday 21 June 2004

The list of the top 500 supercomputer sites for June 2004 is out. The IBM blade kit at work comes in at 201st fastest in the world, 16th in the UK. Woo! :-)

Amazon web services
12:25pm, Friday 18 June 2004 (Updated 2:15pm, Monday 21 June 2004)

Net::Amazon is a perl module to interface to Amazon's web services API. Unfortunately it doesn't like using a web proxy. You can fix this by modifying Amazon.pm line 262:

my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new(env_proxy => (exists $self->{env_proxy} ? $self->{env_proxy} : 0));

(Yeah, it's a bit ugly, but it works!)

Update: The module's auther has included an equivalent fix in the next version (0.25). I love open source.