Add CAPTCHA to your site, free

Google announced today that it has acquired reCAPTCHA, so I had a look at what reCAPTCHA offers. Turns out they have an API that lets you add CAPTCHA to your site. They have plugins for ASP.Net, PHP, Java, etc.

Have a look here.

Perl upgrade on FreeBSD

Have you ever done a perl upgrade on FreeBSD, only to find that none of your installed ports that use perl work anymore? I recently had that shock, and found the following hint:

Execute perl-after-upgrade after upgrading perl on FreeBSD, it will display all modules that needs to be updated. Then execute it again with the -f switch to actually make the required changes.

Voila, everyone settle down again please!