The Incredible Story of CPAN: In 60 seconds

18. August 2025 Jan Brekke 0

CPAN started in 1995 and basically turned Perl into the internet’s secret weapon.
It’s packed with over 200,000 modules, from serious science to pure chaos.
Hackers call it ‘the Library of Everything,’ and for good reason.
It holds over 200,000 Perl modules, everything from math to cat memes.

Make a PING detector

24. November 2020 Jan Brekke 0

In this article we are going to create a PING detector right in the Linux terminal. This script will detect any ping packages (ICMP) sent […]