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CeBIT 2010

High-class talks around the clock in the Forum, non-commercial projects presenting their work, new developments at the largest IT fair in the world, CeBIT Open Source 2010 in Hanover, Germany.

Visit them in hall 2, March 2-6 or here.

DON’T BLAME THE GARDENER! Do-it-yourself, Perl-controlled irrigation system

In this month’s Perl column, we will introduce a system to water your plants while you are away from home. With a little help from Perl, a friendly, Linux-based irrigation system waters your plants twice a day.

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HOME SWITCHER A remote control to reset your router

My low-budget router has just crashed, and there is no way to reset the beast remotely via a network. Never fear – an X10 module, controlled by a web GUI with an Ajax interface, can actuate the mains switch.

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ONE IN A MILLION Do-it-yourself OCR with Perl modules

SecurID tokens use an authentication system by RSA Security to give the user a valid key for logging onto the target system. A home-grown optical character recognition tool in Perl monitors the key generator.

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PROLONGED LIFE Power through power outages

An uninterruptible power supply can help get you through a short power outage without losing data or damaging hardware. A Nagios script written in Perl checks UPS health and initiates a controlled powerdown if the unit exhausts its battery capacity.

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ALPHABET SOUP Organizing character and code sets

When foreign characters occur in program code or data, Perl programmers need a solution that avoids the tribulations of Babel.

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CHAT COLLECTOR Gaim play

Are you interested in storing, organizing, and searching instant messaging conversations on your IMAP server? The Perl script in this month’s column can help you do just that.

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ELECTRICKERY Perl uses a multimeter to report power consumption

Today’s digital multimeters can do more than measure current and voltage. Multimeters also measure capacity and temperature. An inexpensive multimeter can talk to your PC via the serial port, and simple Perl scripts let you read and visualize data in neat charts.

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APPETIZERS Serve a daily dose of information

When tackling something complex, such as a foreign language or Vim commands, digesting small bits of knowledge might be more effective than consuming a super-sized meal of information. This month’s Perl column gives you a method of serving up knowledge snippets by email.

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