Flash player in Google Chrome Linux

Copy flash library from mozilla to chrome plugin directory.Then restart chrome.

# cd /opt/google/chrome
# mkdir plugins
# cp /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/flashplugin-alternative.so /opt/google/chrome/plugins/

Install Tora on Ubuntu 9.10

Tora is client for oracle like Toad. http://torasql.com

OS: Ubuntu 9.10
Tora version: 2.2.0
Oracle client version: 11.1.0.1


Download oracle client packages for linux from http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/tech/oci/instantclient/htdocs/linuxsoft.html
oracle-instantclient-basiclite-11.1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-11.1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
oracle-instantclient-devel-11.1.0.1-1.i386.rpm

Install alien for rpm packages on Ubuntu
# sudo apt-get install alien

Install oracle client packages.
# sudo alien -i oracle-instantclient-basiclite-11.1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
# sudo alien -i oracle-instantclient-sqlplus-11.1.0.1-1.i386.rpm
# sudo alien -i oracle-instantclient-devel-11.1.0.1-1.i386.rpm


Edit /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf
# sudo vi /etc/ld.so.conf.d/oracle.conf
add this line /usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/lib
# sudo ldconfig
# sudo apt-get install libaio1


run sqlplus and see it is working.
# sqlplus
SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Tue Dec 22 10:06:27 2009
Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Enter user-name


Building TORA
Continue as root
# sudo -i
Get packages for compiling.
# apt-get build-dep tora
# apt-get install libqt3-mt-dev libqt3-compat-headers libqscintilla-dev build-essential g++ gcc autoconf automake flex zlib1g-dev docbook-xsl debhelper alien libaio1 dpatch fakeroot xsltproc texi2html texinfo libqt3-mt-psql libqt3-mt-odbc config-package-dev cmake qt4-dev-tools
# cd tora-2.0.0
Environment variables also add this lines to your users .bashrc file.
# export ORACLE_HOME="/usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client"
# export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="${ORACLE_HOME}/lib"
# export TNS_ADMIN="${ORACLE_HOME}"
# ln -s /usr/include/oracle/11.1.0.1/client/ ${ORACLE_HOME}/include
# debian/rules binary
# dpkg -i ../tora_2.0.0-4build2_i386.deb

Now you can run Tora. Log out and log in to be sure you set environment variables. Also put your tnsnames.ora here /usr/lib/oracle/11.1.0.1/client

How to boot from an existing Windows 7 partition under Ubuntu

This configuration could damage your Windows 7 installation, Backup you data.

Disk structure
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
Windows 7 /dev/sda1 * 1 46 364544 7 HPFS/NTFS
Windows 7 /dev/sda2 46 8515 68029440 7 HPFS/NTFS

# sudo apt-get install mbr
# sudo -i 
# cd .Virtualbox


Create mbr 
# install-mbr --force myBootRecord.mbr

Create your sda1 pointer
# VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ./Win71.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 1 -mbr ./myBootRecord.mbr -relative -register

Create sda2 pointer 
# VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename ./Win72.vmdk -rawdisk /dev/sda -partitions 2 -relative -register

Now you can create your machine and add Win71.vmdk and Win72.vmdk disks. 

M$ Office Communicator on Linux

Use pidgin plugin for logon to Microsoft Office Communicator. This is for ubuntu.

# sudo apt-get install pkg-config libglib2.0-dev libgtk2.0-dev pidgin-dev libpurple-dev libtool intltool comerr-dev 

Get plugin from  http://sourceforge.net/projects/sipe/

# tar -xjvf pidgin-sipe*.tar.gz
# cd pidgin-sipe*
# ./configure --prefix=/usr
# make
# sudo make install 

Now you can find M$ Office Communicator in Pidgin.