david lloyd

aahhhh.....just had a relaxing workout and swim at the health club. lovely

ODBC-ODBC bridge

having trouble with a slow Access OLEDB connection over a network. the mdb file is 120Mb so it is no wonder really. then realised that Access ODBC driver doesn't support remote DSN. no wonder really otherwise people wouldn't have to upgrade to MS SQL Server.

looked at a company called easysoft which make this component to allow remote Access access. also works for linux which is great. oh dear looks like it is going to cost £800.

don't think we'll be using that then!

trying to look for alternatives like iODBC, unixODBC (which shamelessly plugs easysoft) perl DBD. looks like it is going to be tricky to set up the server, let alone trying to find a windows oDBC driver which will connect to the linux dsn.

Why am i getting involved? this is not even my problem!

Math-GMP

found a bug submission at CPAN with exactly the same problem as I am having - here. doesn't look good as it was submitted last july

Math::GMP

currently trying to get Net::SSH::Perl to install on redhat 9. it has so many dependencies and one of them is Math::GMP which does not want to install. don't know what is wrong with it, there doesn't seem to be much on google either.

hooray

finally got the blog entry poster working on fedora. now i can post entries without having to go into a browser