After installing Redmine on my Ubuntu 10.04 server from repositories I have noticed that international characters are shown as “?”. . . . → Read More: MySQL Script to Convert Collation latin1_swedish_ci to utf8_general_ci
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When trying to “aptitude upgrade” a diskless Ubuntu 10.04 machine I gen an arror: update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-23-generic Running postinst hook script /usr/sbin/update-grub. /usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?). User postinst hook script [/usr/sbin/update-grub] exited with value 1 dpkg: error processing linux-image-2.6.32-23-generic (–configure): subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit . . . → Read More: Workaround “/usr/sbin/grub-probe: error: cannot find a device for / (is /dev mounted?)” on diskless Ubuntu This is just a quick workaround. After restarting my Ubuntu 10.04 server KVM virtual machines didn’t start. Tried manually: virsh # start saturn error: Failed to start domain saturn error: internal error unable to start guest: chardev: opening backend “pty” failed I needed a fast solution. Very fast googling and this gave me a . . . → Read More: KVM failed to start with error: internal error unable to start guest: chardev: opening backend “pty” failed Today I had to convert almost 5000 filenames with international symbols to UTF8. Some Googling and convmv (mirror) helped me. It is a very useful utility written in perl. Used it on Solaris and Ubuntu Linux. window.fbAsyncInit = function() { FB.init({appId: “131975100147274″, status: true, cookie: true, xfbml: true}); }; (function() { var e = document.createElement(“script”); e.async = true; Useful? Interesting? Just like it? Share: Today I installed Windows 7 to a virtual machine. I use Linux Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx as a host and qemu/KVM for virtualization. Windows was installed to qcow2 image. Later I needed to add a whole physical SATA disk. So I added: <disk type=’block’ device=’disk’> <source dev=’/dev/sdb’/> <target dev=’hdb’ bus=’scsi’/> </disk> (dont use bus=’ide’ . . . → Read More: Virtual Windows7 LSI53C895A SCSI Drivers on Qemu (KVM) Download newest version of Oracle SQL Developer for other platforms (a zip file). Install sun-java6-jre and sqldeveloper-package packages. Make a deb package from previously downloaded zip file. emanuelis@ramune:~/tmp$ make-sqldeveloper-package sqldeveloper-2.1.1.64.45-no-jre.zip make-sqldeveloper-package: Building sqldeveloper package in “/home/emanuelis/tmp”. Install this deb package as usual. emanuelis@ramune:~/tmp$ sudo dpkg -i sqldeveloper_2.1.1.64.45+0.2.3-1_all.deb Selecting previously deselected package sqldeveloper. (Reading database . . . → Read More: How to Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Just create two symlinks… . . . → Read More: How to fix “dos2unix: not found” on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx with tofrodos Webcam needs light. But sometimes light is not desirable. So we can use infrared light. Human eyes can not see infrared but camera sensor can. Let’s go straight to the practice… . . . → Read More: DIY Night Vision for Webcam Yesterday I saw a very nice old hard drive for only 10 Litas (~3.5USD). (foto) . . . → Read More: Vintage Hard Drive. Quantum Bigfoot After changing Ubuntu to a newest Lucid Lynx 10.04 version. Madwimax from Ubuntu repositories doesn’t connect automatically when Samsung SWC-U200 modem is plugged in USB port. There is already a bug on Launchpad and the solution. I don’t know why but it didn’t work for me. Some day I will find out why. My . . . → Read More: How to Automatically Connect to WiMax Network Using Samsung SWC-U200 and madwimax on Ubuntu 10.04 |
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