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+For the last 10 months, I've been living with no internet connection at
+home (not on purpose, but this is another story), so I've tried to be as
+much as possible independent from the web. I've started to use git for
+being able to work off-line, I use Vim as a wiki on my computer, my blog
+engine for writing post off-line, ...
+
+As as perl developer, I use a lot the CPAN. So, I've start to mirror the
+CPAN on my computer. Here is how:
+
+First, you will need the minicpan: =cpan CPAN::Mini=.
+
+Then, edit a *.minicpanrc* file and add the following:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+    local: /path/to/my/mirror/cpan
+    remote: ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/CPAN/
+#+END_SRC
+
+And to finish, add this in your crontab:
+
+#+BEGIN_SRC sh
+    5 14 * * * /usr/local/bin/minicpan > /dev/null 2>&1
+#+END_SRC
+
+Everyday, at 14h05, your cpan will be updated.
+
+Now use the CPAN cli: =sudo cpan= and execute the following command
+=cpan[1]> o conf urllist unshift file:///path/to/my/mirror/cpan=
+
+And voilà, I've got my own minicpan on my computer, so I can install
+everything when I need it, being off-line or not.