Hi Adam,
very nice idea, but I think the sqlite version is truncated/corrupted. I've downloaded twice and obtained a 165.3MB file both times (rather than the advertised 174MB).
sqlite3 produces "Error: database disk image is malformed" when it tries to open the unzipped db.
The md5 sum of my downloaded version (census-20091111.sqlite) is
cb3b4f03ffab095df265f4c9dc6ad6c5
if that's any help.
Cheers,
Paul
Just to add a little sweetness and light: I haven't used Windows in anger for almost ten years, but logged on to a Vista virtual instance, downloaded the all-in-one Padre+Strawberry msi installer, and everything was up and running in around 5 minutes, complete with a handy shortcut in the Start menu.
I then typed
use v10.5;
say "hello world";
saved the file, hit F5, and out came the, err "put". Beautiful...
Congrats, from this perspective, to all involved.
Now I have to remember how to coax CPAN on Windows to travel nicely through an authenticating proxy server. Yech...
Paul
