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By unknown reasons Sun JDK was moved to partner repository, so to use sun jdk you need to do this steps

sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

and then enjoy :

sudo apt-cache search jdk | grep sun
sun-java6-source - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 source files
sun-java6-jre - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture independent files)
sun-java6-jdk - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6
sun-java6-javadb - Java(TM) DB, Sun Microsystems' distribution of Apache Derby
sun-java6-demo - Sun Java(TM) Development Kit (JDK) 6 demos and examples
sun-java6-bin - Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture dependent files)


• Shanghai releases 3-year cloud computing plan – Shanghai plans to use cloud computing technologies in urban management, industry development, e-government and small and medium-sized enterprise services

AWS related links :

• State of the cloud – 2010 August
• Amazon’s EC2 Generating 220M+ Annually – really interesting post – “at 40,000 servers evenly distributed across 6 availability zones we know, ___ 6,700 servers per zone..Most of the servers are likely in the US availability zones vs. the EU zones, maybe 75-80% of total capacity”. Also take a look on amazon ec2 instances usage rates
• Anatomy of an Amazon EC2 Resource ID and based on this anatomy EC2 usage estimates
• Rumor Mill: Google EC2 Competitor Coming in 2010?

You can use sed :

sed -e 's/\([^\d]*\)/\L\1/' in.txt > out.txt

or perl inliner :

perl -ne 'utf8::decode $_; $_ = lc $_; utf8::encode $_; print' in.txt > out.txt
.
Both guys works fine for unicode file too.