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We can't have all work and no play, so a cartoon every once in a while doesn't hurt. While you're having fun, check out http://www.lifeisnojoke.com . Here are some articles on where to find free software: opensource-software-for-windows searching-for-software Now, some people may not understand that by free, we mean free. Not pirated, illegally copied, or borrowed. Open source software is free to use, copy, modify and distribute. A small to medium-sized company may have 100 computers, and have to pay $200 for some kind of office software for each machine for a total of $20,000. But if the company chooses to use free software such as openoffice , the price would be $0.00 x 100 = $0.00.

Mr. Stephen Fry introduces you to free software, and reminds you of a very special birthday. Freedom Fry — "Happy birthday to GNU" Published on: http://www.gnu.org/fry/happy-birthday-to-gnu.html

Sometimes you might want to test a few ideas to implement into a perl script, but you want to see if it will work before you implement it. The Perl debugger is perfect for that. What is the Perl Debugger? Here is an intro from man perldebug : If you invoke Perl with the -d switch, your script runs under the Perl source debugger. This works like an interactive Perl environment, prompting for debugger commands that let you examine source code, set breakpoints, get stack backtraces, change the values of variables, etc. This is so convenient that you often fire up the debugger all by itself just to test out Perl constructs interactively to see what they do. For example: $ perl -d -e 42 Using the Perl Debugger Interactively To invoke the perl debugger, simply use the -d option, and give it any name, such as "1", in this example. Instead of specifying "-e 1", you could specify a filename to have perl debug the file. In this case, we wan...