SSH and Strawberry Perl

Strawberry Perl doesn't come with SSH modules pre-installed.

Here is how to insall

C:\>perl -MCPAN -e shell

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.9304)
ReadLine support enabled

cpan> install Net::SSH
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (connect: timeout)]

As a last ressort we now switch to the external ftp command 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\ftp.EXE'
to get 'C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\01mailrc.txt.gz.tmp3104'.

Doing so often leads to problems that are hard to diagnose.

If you're victim of such problems, please consider unsetting the ftp
config variable with

o conf ftp ""
o conf commit

I would like to connect to one of the following sites to get 'authors/01mailrc.txt.gz':

http://www.perl.org/CPAN/
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/

Is it OK to try to connect to the Internet? [yes] yes
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.perl.org:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/01mailrc.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.perl.org:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/02packages.details.txt.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/modules/03modlist.data.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/modules/03modlist.data.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.perl.org:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/modules/03modlist.data.gz
Creating database file ...

Gathering information from index files ...
Populating database tables ...
Done!
Running install for module 'Net::SSH'
Running make for I/IV/IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
http://cpan.strawberryperl.com/authors/id/I/IV/IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to cpan.strawberryperl.com:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.cpan.org/authors/id/I/IV/IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.cpan.org:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
http://www.perl.org/CPAN/authors/id/I/IV/IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
LWP failed with code[500] message[Can't connect to www.perl.org:80 (connect: timeout)]
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/I/IV/IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
Fetching with LWP:
ftp://ftp.perl.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/I/IV/IVAN/CHECKSUMS
Checksum for C:\strawberry\cpan\sources\authors\id\I\IV\IVAN\Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz ok
Scanning cache C:\strawberry\cpan\build for sizes
DONE

CPAN.pm: Going to build I/IV/IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz

Checking if your kit is complete...
Looks good
Writing Makefile for Net::SSH
cp SSH.pm blib\lib\Net\SSH.pm
IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE -- OK
Running make test
C:\strawberry\perl\bin\perl.exe "-Iblib\lib" "-Iblib\arch" test.pl
1..1
ok 1
IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE test -- OK
Running make install
Prepending C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Net-SSH-0.09-cQfbZo/blib/arch C:\strawberry\cpan\build\Net-SSH-0
.09-cQfbZo/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'install'
Installing C:\strawberry\perl\site\lib\Net\SSH.pm
Appending installation info to C:\strawberry\perl\lib/perllocal.pod
IVAN/Net-SSH-0.09.tar.gz
C:\strawberry\c\bin\dmake.EXE install UNINST=1 -- OK

cpan>

ADSL on Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala)

Working with ADSL modems on Ubuntu 9.10:

Configure: pppoeconf

sudo pppoeconf

Check: rohit@lenovo:/etc/network$ more interfaces auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface dsl-provider inet ppp pre-up /sbin/ifconfig eth0 up # line maintained by pppoeconf provider dsl-provider auto eth0 iface eth0 inet manual
Start: pon
rohit@lenovo:/etc/network$ sudo pon dsl-provider Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5
Stop:poff
sudo poff
Log:plog
rohit@lenovo:/etc/network$ plog Dec 8 16:37:45 lenovo pppd[11102]: Plugin rp-pppoe.so loaded. Dec 8 16:37:45 lenovo pppd[11102]: RP-PPPoE plugin version 3.8p compiled against pppd 2.4.5

This method works well for BSNL's ADSL lines in Kolkata.

Download HD Trailers from Apple Trailers

Apple movies now 'stream' mov files, they cannot be saved (like they us. for example, if you view the HD movie trailer for the movie "GOOD" - the URL on the page leads to this stream:
http://movies.apple.com/movies/ifc_films/good/good_1080p.mov
Saving link creates a mov file of 75k - not the movie.

In order to download, add the letter 'h' (Hidden) to the movie file name:

wget http://movies.apple.com/movies/ifc_films/good/good_h1080p.mov

HD-Trailers.net has an article on this and a tip for Yahoo HD Movie Trailers - which I've never used...