[ProgSoc] DBI perl module

[Christian Kent <ckent@nospam.socs.uts.EDU.AU>]

Hell it's 1:30am and I feel like rambling.

I just made a minor breakthrough getting DBI to work and I wonder if this
is how progsoc works -- teach yourself, do it the hard way, this prepares
you for the real world?  <chuckle>

Fer instance, if you had never RTFM and found the option to change the
MySQL port to /var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock, it would never work.  And that
little path came from a never-need-that-again status display in MySQL's
command line.  That's certainly not the default path, but hell don't let
that worry whoever installed it  :)

Okay fine, it's a RTFM culture, I can see the benefit here.  To find the
true residence of a pod, hack around perldoc's options until you find its
help, then there's an option to tell you some stuff about the pod, which
=may= include its full path if you're lucky.  I suppose I was.

RTFM and thy shall prosper.  I shouldn't complain;  my IRC-addicted sister
never finds things out for herself and she's turned into a spod, probably
spending as late nights on the computer as I was at her age but without
the same career possibilities  :)   Then she relates to me a story about
how some semi-newbies are teaching the real newbies on IRC how to get
around (frankly I couldn't give a flying scotsman), but the instructions
are all wrong and she's resisting the urge to jump in and correct them.

Okay, back to work.  I love the pay rate  <grin>  hours are nice too.

CK.

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