SOAP::Lite for Fedora 7

If had the need to use SOAP::Lite 0.69 in Fedora 7 with the serialization bug fixed, so I decided to create this page. Feel free to use it...

Another day of links

Yup, I've been busy.

Links for today:

• If you want to test the "Second Life on a browser" client, this is the working link.
• Finaly I've found something written from a Virtual World's guru telling what I've been trying to tell people for years now: MUDs and MMORPGs are the same thing.
• cog is now officially the new TPF Community Relations Leader, congrats!
• When IP laws go into Virtual Property, stuff like this happens. It will be an interesting case to follow, since it might set a precedent.
• Today there's going to be a Lisbon.pm Tech meeting...
• ...which I'm not going to attend, since I'm going to see a Dead Combo concert.

I'm posting this at so early today, since I don't think I'm going to get the time to write something bigger than this, so I'm telling you those two things happening today in Lisbon with enough time to attend to one of them... If you decide to go to the Dead Combo gig, feel free to come to me and say "hi".

Links for today

Links for today:

• Barcamp Portugal is back, this year it will be at the 1st and 2nd of September. Wanna come?
• Starting today, the fantastic OpenMoko can be bought. Only downside is that it doesn't have UMTS. Still, feel free to offer me one ;-)
• One of the things I love on Debian is how easy is to report and keep track of bugs. The task now is even easier.
• Perl 5.9 is full of cool new stuff. BTW, Module::Pluggable rocks.
• Dell os happy with their laptops with Ubuntu experience, and are going to expand the effort outside USA.
• This link won't probably show you nothing, but yesterday had a web client for Second Life. I hope it comes back, the idea is good.
• GNUnet 0.7.2a, a bugfix release, is out.
• BluRay and HD DVD will have a new DRM system. I wonder how long will it survive before it gets cracked.
• Finaly, Steve Wozniak talking about DRM.

Note that today I didn't read any of my feeds, so maybe there's a war out there and I'm just giving you old news...

Bugfix for Mail::POP3Client 2.17

Bitcard totaly sucks. I've managed to crash it several times, but still can't authenticate on CPAN to fill a bug report. I quit.

For those who might care:

--- /root/.cpan/build/Mail-POP3Client-2.17/POP3Client.pm        2005-08-18 16:28:12.000000000 +0100
+++ /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Mail/POP3Client.pm      2007-02-27 17:36:43.000000000 +0000
@@ -412,7 +412,10 @@
 $me->Message($msg);

 $me->State('AUTHORIZATION');
-  defined($me->User()) and defined($me->Pass()) and $me->Login();
+  if (defined($me->User()) and defined($me->Pass()) and $me->Login()) {
+    return 1;
+  }
+  return 0;

} # end Connect

This is on Connect(), a method that is documented as allways returning 0 or 1, which isn't happening.

MIME::Fast

Not surprisingly, I hate when stuff just does not work.

Trying to use MIME::Fast. To compile it (cpan install MIME::Fast) you need, supposedly, gmime 2.1.9 or higher. I can't get it to compile in any other version of gmime other than 2.1.9 (so old that there are no packages for it either for any version of Debian or Fedora Core 5). Compiling it (that exact version) makes MIME::Fast compile, but its tests only go well under Debian, not Fedora.

Ack.

Dear Lazyweb, do you know any good alternative for MIME::Fast? I mean, a Perl module that lets you easily interpret mail headers and body?