What is the subject matter of all the paintings below? what is the composition used?

1: http://www.bc.edu/bc_org/avp/cas/his/CoreArt/art/resources/frag_blind.jpg

2: http://pictopia.com/perl/get_image?provider_id=207&size=550x550_mb&ptp_photo_id=144561

3: http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/gallery/images/caravaggio_.jpg

4: http://www.dl.ket.org/humanities/gallery/images/rembrandt_.jpg

5: http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb172/RococoFlow/Maidith03.jpg

6: http://i210.photobucket.com/albums/bb172/RococoFlow/Maidith03.jpg

I finished my undergraduate work in Computer Security and Information Assurance- and have always loved to program. The focus in my coursework was C++- but for what I do at work- I ve been using a lot of Perl. Because of this- I ve forgotten nearly everything in regards to C++ (although I m sure I could pick it up again).

I d like to get back into full-fledged programming so I can develop user applications- and I think one day I may like to get into the gaming industry - if only to work on my own indie games. I also would like to move more into the realm of Windows-based GUI programming- instead of doing everything through the CLI.

Can anyone offer any advice based on this- and their reasoning?

Thanks a ton!

Help! I m usually the technologically savvy one- but when a friend of mine asked me what web hosting company would be best for their business- I had no idea. I have tried searching online- but I have no idea what most of the technological terms mean (such as PERL- VPS- SSL) The following is their requirement (they have a small business that sells less than ten products / services):
*They need access of certain parts of the Electronic shop (e-shop) to be restricted to certain members
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Is there a way to convert a Perl script to a VB script? I ve searched the net and can t find a thing... OR anyone that would be willing to convert this for me??? Any help is appreciated!!! :-) THANKS!!!

*This script works perfectly in Perl I just need it in VB*
~~~PERL SCRIPT BELOW THIS~~~

use IO::Socket;
$ibootip = "192.168.1.254"; # Default IP address of iBoot power strip.
$ibootip = $ARGV[0] if(defined($ARGV[0])); # Override default?
$ibootport = 80; # Port to address for TCP connection.
$pw = "PASS"; # Password to control iBoot.
$CYCLE = "c"; # Command to cycle power.
$s = IO::Socket::INET->new("$ibootip:$ibootport");
die "Failed to connect - $!\n" unless $s;
print($s "\e$pw\e$CYCLE\r"); # Nuke it!
close $s; # Tear down the socket connection.

i have a blackberry perl but the n96 and the n76 look great oh the n96 for the space .i what to get the blackberry 9000 causes its so look at me

Record Line:

1-2-3-"four-for"-5-"six-ssiixx"-"seven"

I want to remove the comma in "four-for" and "six-ssiixx". I tried using the $myValue =~ s/<regular_exp>/<replace_value>/g but I just end up replacing the string starting from the bad field to the last instance of a comma on the record.
Yahoo cut off my record string. Here it is again:

1-2-3-"four-for"-5-"six-ssiixx"-"seven"
Once again- here is the full string with comma plus spacing afterwards:

1- 2- 3- "four- for"- 5- "six- ssiixx"- "seven"
I m satisfied with raymanrevo s answer but how do I choose "Best Answer"?

Here is a modified version of raymanrevo s suggestion incorporating possible spacing:

$myValue =~ s/("[\w\ ]*)-([\w\ ]*")/\1\2/g;

Thank you raymanrevo! :)