format json with Gedit and Perl

How to prettify/format/indent json with Gedit and Perl:

install JSON::XS
go to Plugins and enable "External tool"

go to Tools -> Manage External Tools -> add new (the button in the bottom on the left if no icons are shown)
add a name, for example "Format JSON with Perl"
replace the contents of the text area on the right with

#!/usr/bin/env perl 

use strict;
use JSON::XS;
local $/ = undef;
my $content = <STDIN>;

my $j = JSON::XS->new->utf8->pretty(1);
my $output = $j->encode($j->decode($content));

print $output;

open your file, then Tools -> External Tools -> "Format JSON with Perl"


you can also set a shortcut in the Manage External Tools window

good answer to an internet rant : "Perl already won"

Perl Already Won

readable text by an experienced Perl developer

my perlbrew build options

mostly copied from Debian, as shown by

perl -V


here they are:

perlbrew install -j 5 -Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Duse64bitint -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -Doptimize=-O2 -Duseshrplib perl-5.20.1


"-j 5" thanks to http://www.dagolden.com/index.php/1384/parallel-make-for-perlbrew/

fglrx (AMD proprietary driver) on Debian Wheezy on Athlon 5350 with AM1H-ITX

The open source radeon driver works fine, but if for some reason you want to install the proprietary driver the Wheezy default will not recognize the integrated graphics AMD Radeon HD 8400. Fortunately the version in wheezy-backports does.

Add this line to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian wheezy-backports main contrib non-free


then

apt-get update

apt-get install -t wheezy-backports fglrx-driver fglrx-control

aticonfig --initial

reboot

Yes, the reboot is required, the open source radeon driver needs to be blacklisted and the package fglrx-driver apparently does that for you.

convert .msg files from Outlook to a format readable on linux with a text editor

How to convert .msg files from Outlook to a format readable on linux with a text editor:

from http://www.matijs.net/software/msgconv/

cpanm Email::Outlook::Message

or

cpan -i Email::Outlook::Message

or on Debian and derivatives such as Ubuntu:

apt-get install libemail-outlook-message-perl

then

msgconv my_unreadable_binary_file.msg
less my_unreadable_binary_file.eml

dwarf fortress on Debian x64 Wheezy

got these errors at start

./libs/Dwarf_Fortress: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

./libs/Dwarf_Fortress: error while loading shared libraries: libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

./libs/Dwarf_Fortress: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_image-1.2.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

./libs/Dwarf_Fortress: error while loading shared libraries: libSDL_ttf-2.0.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

solved by adding i386 architecture and installing a couple of packages

dpkg --add-architecture i386
apt-get install libsdl1.2debian:i386 libgtk2.0-0:i386 libsdl-image1.2:i386 libsdl-ttf2.0-0:i386

this does not fix the OpenAL sound issue, but I disable the sound anyway

renamed from "perl hunting" to "blue collar dev" to fit my current mood