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Convert Many Filenames Encoding with convmv to UTF8

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.

Virtual Windows7 LSI53C895A SCSI Drivers on Qemu (KVM)

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)

How to Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

Download newest version of Oracle SQL Developer for other platforms (a zip file). Install sun-java6-jre, debhelper and sqldeveloper-package packages. Fix a “dos2unix: not found” problem.

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 . . . → Read More: How to Install Oracle SQL Developer on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx

How to fix “dos2unix: not found” on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx with tofrodos

Just create two symlinks… . . . → Read More: How to fix “dos2unix: not found” on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx with tofrodos