making/receiving calls with his N900/Android That`s a very good news, we`ll take best from the both worlds!


deb:~# /etc/init.d/vmware start
VMware Server is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for the running kernel. To (re-)configure it, invoke the
following command: /srv/vmware/bin/vmware-config.pl.


But it was working and configured! Digged a little deeper, and I realised that this filthy software has put some token file, stating that it is non-configured for a variety of reasons:


deb:~# cd /etc/vmware
deb:/etc/vmware# ls -las
...
0 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 2010-08-20 17:09 not_configured
...
deb:/etc/vmware# rm not_configured
rm: remove regular empty file `not_configured'? y


After that, all started to work!


deb:/etc/vmware# /etc/init.d/vmware start
Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual machine communication interface done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 done
VMware Server Authentication Daemon (background) done
Shared Memory Available done
Starting VMware management services:
VMware Server Host Agent (background) done
VMware Virtual Infrastructure Web Access
Starting VMware autostart virtual machines:
Virtual machines done
deb:/etc/vmware# /etc/init.d/vmware status
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 is running
Host network detection is not running
Module vmmon loaded
Module vmnet loaded


Weee! Hope that might help you as well sometime

Just started playing with it, although this tiny beast is capable of playing flac and a bunch of videoformats, I also decided to get 16Gb card and a decent AKG headphones.

This device rocks! It`s definately not for an blondie user, that got used to iPhone`ish apps and overall Apple ideology (which I can describe as an ugliest ever); it`s not for users that enjoying their all-and-everywhere Google services on their Android devices (such approach I found as "BigBrother is watching you" facist regime, but that`s mine paranoia, perhaps ). This baby is for users, that are found of getting new info, hack their devices, and people that are ready for getting in depths with their handheld devices. You could easily use n900 as it is, without messing around console, repositaries, rootfs and other stuff - but you won`t ever taste the power in this device. Nuff said, N900 is not for everyone, nor this is iPhone killer. It`s one-man-army on it`s own.

This post is not an comperhensive review of the device, it`s rather mine happy yell to the world. But I`ll outline some pros/cons I discovered so far:

Pros
- cool hardware; ARM Cortex A600, runs and 600Mhz; easly goes overclocked to 1Ghz; absolute record for now is whooping 1.7Ghz
- stunning OS - linux gives you ability to use ssh, ftp, any tools you might need for your everyday as an IT guy - python, bash, gcc, all linux command line bells and whistles are usable;
- enough nice apps - really, I found that there is enough nice apps for me in repos; some might say that`s not as a lot of as on iStore/aMarket, but that`s enough for me. I don`t need stupido apps like one for checking latest on the Britney Spears tour somewhere between rednecks in Minessota. once again - there is enough apps for serious work on the go!
- build quality; build like tank!
- nice display - resolution is quite good, and 4 desktops are fery nice
- DSP - this device plays music like an decent yet average mp3 player; this is not an superb Cowon player, but it plays more clearly (yet to bassy) than iPods, as ppl saying, and very-very good for an tablet/phone

Cons
- very average battery life - with some tweaks applied, like brightness to lowest and wifi turned off, using device like mp3 payer on my way to the office and as phone is giving me approx 2 days of usage; hey, Nokia, give us 2500mA battery!
- weak micro USB port - as officially annouced by Nokia, there are problems with micro USB port on N900, it could just fell off with the charger. It`s due to the weird and stupid decision to place USB port on the plate just with glue and some other weak stuff. There is an guaranty applied to such kind of the malfunctioning, but, hey, 600$ device should be free from such kind of mis-design. Anyway, there is some articles with the remedies to this - me, for example, had already tuned the charger by removing metal horns on the lower part, to make it more smooth and less harass the port itself - and guys on maemo.org already soldering their ports to be rock-solid; an hackers delight!

In a cople of days I`ll post a list of software, that I installed on the N900, that are very useful for me; perhaps you`ll find smth interesting there as well!

Cheers!



# zoneadm list -cv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / native shared
Segmentation Fault



Debugging the dump gave no info, but I went yet down...



# ldd /usr/sbin/zoneadm
...
libz.so.1 => /usr/local/lib/libz.so.1
libz.so.1 (SUNW_1.1) => (version not found)
...



Aha! That`s the lib problem with the SUNWzlib package, that is used for the gzip. So, googling around and praising unix.com forum, I was able to find another instance of the library that was expected, but somehow was mis-placed by another version:



# grep libz.so.1 /var/sadm/install/contents | grep " f "
/usr/lib/libz.so.1 f none 0755 root bin 80200 28295 1170178503 SUNWzlib
/usr/lib/sparcv9/libz.so.1 f none 0755 root bin 98656 6323 1170178503 SUNWzlib
/usr/local/lib/libz.so.1.2.5 f none 0755 bin bin 87892 20672 1273268080 SMCzlib


Now, I`m preceding the LD_LIBRARY_PATH with the path to the first one lib:



export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/lib/:/usr/local/lib:/usr/openwin/lib:/usr/local/lib:/usr/openwin/lib


Fingers crossed...


# zoneadm list -cv
ID NAME STATUS PATH BRAND IP
0 global running / native shared
- chiscsmcst01svn installed /export/zones/chiscsmcst01svn native shared
- chiscsmcst01syslog installed /export/zones/chiscsmcst01syslog native shared
- chiscsmcst01audit installed /export/zones/chiscsmcst01audit native shared
- chiscsmcst01gc installed /export/zones/chiscsmcst01gc native shared


Works! But I have a strange feeling, that this might be related to the patchcluster...

In short, you have to do the following:


root@server# cd 10_Recommended/patches/
root@server# ls
root@server# mv * ../


i.e. you have to move all patches one level up. That will do the trick

Cheers


# sort > file << EOF
heredoc> LJHLKIH
heredoc> aaa
heredoc> Zasdsadf
heredoc> zdsgfdf
heredoc> $PATH
heredoc> `uname -n`
heredoc> EOF
# cat file
/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/:/opt/DTT/Bin/:/opt/csw/bin/:/usr/local/bin:/opt/Adobe/Reader9/bin/:/opt/DTT/Bin/:/opt/csw/bin/
LJHLKIH
Zasdsadf
aaa
sol10node01
zdsgfdf


By default bash will interpolate the content of the block like it would in a double-quoted string. If you want to avoid this (for example if your here document contains a script you want to output verbatim) you can put single quotes around your limit string.


# export var="hello"
# cat <<LimitString
heredoc> echo $var
heredoc> LimitString
echo hello
# cat <<'LimitString'
heredoc> echo $var
heredoc> LimitString
echo $var


Sweet

One of such is tuning your terminal, reassigning the keys for different purposes (including that sometimes annoying DELETE key behaviour). Yet I don`t want to be an replacement for man command, few useful tricks are below:


stty {option} {default System-V keys}

stty erase (delete previous symbol) ^\? [DELETE]
stty kill (delete line) ^u [CTRL-u]
stty werase (delete previous word) ^w [CTRL-w]
stty intr (kill current task) ^c [CTRL-C]
stty quit (kill current task, create dump file) ^\\ [CTRL-\]
stty susp (stop current task, afterwards you can move it to backgound with bg command) ^z [CTRL-z]
stty rprnt (again show current line) ^r [CTRL-r]
stty -a (show all current terminal settings)
stty columns 120 (widen your terminal; useful when you have "Terminal too wide" message)


All terminals that can be used on a current system are listed in


/etc/termcap


You can check what terminal you are running in a true old-school way:


tput -T`echo $TERM` longname


Re-initialising of the terminal (using current $TERM) is done by:


tput init


Old is gold! Stay tuned,
Nik


# /usr/sbin/svccfg -s svc:/system/webconsole setprop options/tcp_listen = true


That will make it`s SVC config to be changed; to make things applied, do the following:


# /usr/sbin/svcadm refresh svc:/system/webconsole
# /usr/sbin/smcwebserver stop
# /usr/sbin/smcwebserver start
# /usr/sbin/svcadm enable svc:/system/webconsole


Now, make sure, that it`s really listening on the port:


# netstat -an | grep 6789
*.6789 *.* 0 0 49152 0 LISTEN


Works! Now navigate with your login/passwd to the https://`hostname`:6789

That should give you the feel of the Solaris 10 web-iface tool Enjoy!

And don`t forget to read Sun/Oracle documentation on it.

Cheers!