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

Tips & Tricks for Databases (Sybase, Oracle, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite), Windows, Linux, Solaris, Perl, Java, Bash and so much much more

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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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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HowTo: Getting the Spice client up and working on Ubuntu 12.10 with libvirt / virt-manager

by Jason L Froebe on February 10, 2013, no comments

Unfortunately, when you install the Spice client on Ubuntu 12.x, it doesn’t include everything you need to get it to work sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install spice-client-gtk qemu-kvm-spice python-spice-client-gtk If you’re up to date on your 12.10 patches, you shouldn’t need to modify the libvirt-qemu file for Apparmor but if you have troubles, add [...]

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Tomorrow: Howto Windows 7 32bit AND 64bit Sound with KVM / libvirt and the Spice client

by Jason L Froebe on February 9, 2013, 2 comments

Finally got sound working in a Windows 7 64bit KVM virtual machine with Spice. There are a few conditions for it to work: ICH6 audio Spice guest drivers installed NOT VNC QXL video QXL driver (64bit) Since I’m using Windows 7 Enterprise 64bit, I had to build and digitally sign the driver. Not difficult at [...]

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