Author: Emerson .

Samsung E215

Samsung released a new mobile phone here in Brazil officially called Samsung E215L. It is currently advertised as an exclusive item by Submarino (a brazilian online retailer) and I didn’t find anywhere mentioning about this mobile phone so I decided to post some information.

Samsung released a press release saying that it could be found July 2008 but it was released August 2008.

This is what the sales package has:

  • Samsung E215 phone
  • Battery
  • Charger
  • Stereo earphone
  • 512MB MicroSD card
  • User guide
  • Warranty certificate

It features 19MB of internal memory, a VGA (640×480 pixels) camera, bluetooth and a memory slot to use up to 2GB MicroSD card.

Measuring 91 x 45 x 18mm and weighting 85g can be considered a small phone

The Samsung E215 is a quadriband phone and has an estimated 180 minutes of talk time and 250 standby time and retails for R$349,00.

Samsung E215 Box cover - Top
Samsung E215 Box cover - top front
Samsung E215 - Front closed
Samsung E215 - Front open
Samsung E215 - Battery Cover
Samsung E215 compared with a credit card
Samsung E215 - Left side
Samsung E215 - Right side

OpenSolaris 2008.05 failed to update

This is the error message that appeared when I tried to update my installation.

root@setalaptop:~ # pkg image-update
Creating Plan \Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/bin/pkg”, line 1440, in ?
ret = main_func()
File “/usr/bin/pkg”, line 1404, in main_func
return image_update(img, pargs)
File “/usr/bin/pkg”, line 366, in image_update
noexecute = noexecute)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py”, line 1282, in make_install_plan
ip.evaluate()
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py”, line 344, in evaluate
self.evaluate_fmri(f)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/imageplan.py”, line 187, in evaluate_fmri
m = self.image.get_manifest(pfmri)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py”, line 516, in get_manifest
m = self._fetch_manifest(fmri)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/image.py”, line 468, in _fetch_manifest
mcontent = retrieve.get_manifest(self, fmri)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/vendor-packages/pkg/client/retrieve.py”, line 87, in get_manifest
return m.read()
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py”, line 277, in read
data = self._sock.recv(recv_size)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/httplib.py”, line 480, in read
s = self.fp.read(amt)
File “/usr/lib/python2.4/socket.py”, line 295, in read
data = self._sock.recv(recv_size)
timeout: timed out

I’ll research another day why I can’t update it.

OpenSolaris 2008.05

Ian Murdock and the volunters from OpenSolaris.org released the new distro-like distribution of Solaris. It’s called OpenSolaris.

I’m downloading the OpenSolaris Live CD right now to replace the Fedora Linux partition that I have.

Failed to delete VM – VMware Server

Right clicked the VM to delete and it removed from the Inventory but showed the following message:

Failed to delete VM
Reason: Failed to unregister the VM after it was deleted.

Another VMware error where Google showed nothing. 😦

Unable to find the answer LIBDIR – VMware Server

Does anybody know how to solve this problem?

root@memcached:~ # rpm -ivh –force VMwareTools-1.0.5-80187.i386.rpm
Preparing… ########################################### [100%]
Unable to find the answer LIBDIR in the installer database
(/etc/vmware-tools/locations). You may want to re-install VMware
Tools.\n\nExecution aborted.

error: %pre(VMwareTools-6533-80187.i386) scriptlet failed, exit status 1
error: install: %pre scriptlet failed (2), skipping VMwareTools-6533-80187

I cancelled (CTRL+C) in the middle of the installation of the rpm and now I can’t run the installer or reinstall the rpm.

“Song” was not copied to the iPod “iPod’s name” because it could not be found

I ran into this problem and found many solutions involving opening the iTunes Music Library.xml file and deleting the song that caused the error message. I simply looked the music library and didn’t find it. So I searched where it was still referencing and found it in one of the playlists. I unchecked the song and synced again without the error message.

Which file does HP-UX keep the number of past passwords

The parameter PASSWORD_HISTORY_DEPTH in the /etc/default/security file controls how many past passwords HP-UX will remember the password to prevent the user from using the same old passwords he uses. Set the number as you like.

root@hp-ux11.11:/ # passwd user
Changing password for user
Last successful password change for user: Wed Apr 23 00:06:26 2008
Last unsuccessful password change for user: Thu Feb  7 12:34:42 2008

New password:
You may not re-use a previously used password.