Jason L. Froebe – Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

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Category Archives: OS

Want a free ebook? Java Application Development on Linux

by Jason L Froebe on April 12, 2013, no comments

Nikesh Jauhari over on the Linux Poison blog, posted about the free eBook – Java Application Development on Linux, a 599 page ebook from informIT. Yeah, when you download the book, you will need to give informIT your contact info. If you don’t want to, you could probably just use an email address that you [...]

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HOWTO: Installing and running SAP / Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 esd 6 on Ubuntu Linux using KVM

by Jason L Froebe on March 10, 2013, 2 comments

You can run KVM on just about any modern Linux distribution provided that your host is capable of providing virtualization. The folks over at HowtoForge go through the steps for Ubuntu 12.10. What you will need for the KVM virtual machine: Ubuntu Server 6.06.2 for Intel x86 Sybase SQL Server 11.0.3.3 esd 6 for Linux [...]

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Installing OpenClient with Sybase’s ASE 15.7+ installer (setup.bin -i console)

by Jason L Froebe on February 21, 2013, no comments

Installing Sybase OpenClient 15.7 or higher on *nix with setup.bin and don’t have X-Windows available, you will need to start the setup.bin with: ./setup.bin -i console If you want to install just OpenClient or some other thing, the problem comes with the poorly worded “Choose Product Features”: ENTER A COMMA_SEPARATED LIST OF NUMBERS REPRESENTING THE [...]

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HOWTO: Building Perl module DBD::Sybase 1.14 on Windows (32bit or 64bit) with ActiveState Perl 5.16, Microsoft Visual Studio and Sybase OpenClient 15.7

by Jason L Froebe on February 20, 2013, 2 comments

Compiling the DBD::Sybase Perl module really requires Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 or higher. To get started open the “Visual Studio 2005 Command Prompt”. You will need to fix the Makefile.PL file: if ( $^O eq ‘MSWin32′ ) { $lib_string = “-L$SYBASE/lib -llibct.lib -llibcs.lib -llibtcl.lib -llibcomn.lib -llibintl.lib -llibblk.lib $attr{EXTRA_LIBS} -lm”; to if ( $^O eq ‘MSWin32′ [...]

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You installed Commodore 64 Emulator Vice (x64) and you can’t type in it? Fixing the “Cannot load keymap ‘x11_sym.vkm’” error

by Jason L Froebe on February 19, 2013, no comments

See the "About VICE" command for more info. XRandR: XRandR reports current display: 1600×900@60 Loading system file `/home/jason/.vice/C64/kernal‘. C64MEM: Kernal rev #3. Loading system file `/home/jason/.vice/C64/basic’. Loading system file `/home/jason/.vice/C64/chargen‘. Loading system file `/home/jason/.vice/PRINTER/mps803′. Error – ROM /home/jason/.vice/PRINTER/mps803: short file. MPS-803: Error – Could not load MPS-803 charset ‘mps803′. MPS-803: Error – Cannot load palette [...]

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