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

Get it here! Perl DBD::Sybase 1.14.01 for Active State Perl 5.16 Windows XP/Vista/7/8 32bit AND 64bit

by Jason L Froebe on February 17, 2013, 10 comments

Assuming that you installed Sybase SDK OpenClient 15.7. Sybase Openclient is included in the Sybase Developer’s Kit, and ASE PC Client. If you don’t have a license, you can download the ASE 15.7 Developer Edition for Windows which will include it. Install ActiveState Perl from http://www.activestate.com (free) and install DBI if it isn’t already installed.  [...]

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

by Jason L Froebe on February 10, 2013, 5 comments

UPDATE: Fixed and signed qxl video drivers Hi all, Yesterday I promised to post how I was able to get sound working with KVM / libvirt and the Spice client with Windows 7 32bit and 64bit. Here you go First, get your spice client set up wherever you are going to run virt-manager. On the [...]

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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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Optimizing the Firefox (SQLite databases)

by Jason L Froebe on January 27, 2013, no comments

Most people that want to speed up Firefox know about the various settings in about:config but many forget that Firefox uses SQLite databases that can become cluttered. In your home directory ($HOME on *nix/Mac and %APPDIR% on Windows), run sqlite3 with vacuum, reindex and analyze on eche of the *.sqlite databases. Don’t have sqlite3? No [...]

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Proxmox VE 1.8 and KVM: Adding sound to your virtual machines!

by Jason L Froebe on April 7, 2011, 2 comments

This assumes that your host machine has a sound card! Add the args line in your /etc/qemu-server/<vm id>.conf file should give you sound: args: -soundhw On my Proxmox VE 1.8, I have several virtual audio devices available.   I’ve had the best luck with ac97 with Windows XP/Vista and Win7. red:/etc/qemu-server# kvm -soundhw ‘?’ Valid sound [...]

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