I occasionally need to convert a mysql database to UTF-8. This can be a painful process and if it goes wrong can result in a nightmare of character-set collisions. Some digging around on the lazyweb led me to a nice solution I found over at oscarm.org that shows you how to quickly convert the actual data, but I wanted to convert the database too.
Following on from my previous post, I have been making some RPM packages available for Fedora 8 and the MacBook 3,1 Santa Rosa.
The kernel packages are not needed now since Fedora 8 kernel 2.6.24.3-50 (and newer) already contains the MacBook specific fixes. However, at the time of writing the gstreamer packages are still required if you want to use gstreamer based applications with the MacBook iSight camera.
Before downloading, please take care of my bandwidth. If you don't need the package, please don't download it.
You can download the packages here.
There is also this thread at fedoraforum.org which may be helpful.
If you find any problems or have any suggestions please let me know.
The MacBook is great, but OS X is not really my cup of tea and I choose not to use Windows. Luckily Fedora 8 works like a charm on the MacBook and with a bit of configuring you can get all the hardware working properly.
I couldn't find any information on the lazyweb about installing Fedora 8 on a MacBook so I recorded what I did and made a detailed how-to which is posted in the wiki over at mactel-linux.org. The guide shows you step-by-step how to install and configure Fedora 8 x86_64 on the MacBook and works with both MacBook version 3,1 (from late 2007) or version 4,1 (from early 2008).
Big up to the guys at Fedora who gave in to my relentless nagging and integrated some of the mactel-linux patches into the latest Fedora kernels. Without them I'd still be spending my weekends rolling kernels!
If you find the guide useful or have any comments or suggestions then let me know.
I've messed with blogging software for years, use MT daily, and have installed WordPress countless times but never actually got around to blogging about anything.
So, for the nth time, here goes again. Maybe I'll even think of something interesting to say.