My Dinky Note

Just now, I tried to deploy Magento, an e-commerce CMS, version 1.0.19870.1. Although it’s just for fun, I really want to try this CMS, because in a review (I forget where I read the review) Magento regarded better than osCommerce. However, in the installation process, I met this kind of error.

Url “http://localhost/magento/” is not accessible

Error parsing body - doesn’t seem to be a chunked message

Where “http://localhost/magento” was my Base URL.

Fortunately, it can be solved easily. I just had to add‘”index.php/’” in <path>\magento\app\code\core\Mage\Install\Model\Installer\Config.php line 139 so that the original syntax:

$client = new Varien_Http_Client($url.$prefix);

will be like this:

$client = new Varien_Http_Client($url.‘index.php/’.$prefix);

It will solve the problem.

(I think the developer just forget to add that part of syntax.. :p)

English uses the Latin alphabet of the Romans. However, this had no letter suitable for representing the phoneme /w/ which was used in Old English, though phonetically the sound represented by /v/ was quite close. In the 7th century scribes wrote uu for /w/; later they used the runic symbols known as wynn. European scribes had continued to write uu, and this usage returned to England with the Norman Conquest in 1066. Early printers sometimes used vv for lack of a w in their type. The name double-u recalls the former identity of u and v, which is also evident in a number of cognate words (flour/flower, guard/ward, suede/Swede, etc.). (source: http://www.askoxford.com/)

The earliest form of the letter W was a doubled V used in the 7th century by the earliest writers of Old English; it is from this <uu> digraph that the modern name “double U” comes. This digraph was not extensively used, as its sound was usually represented instead by the runic wynn (Ƿ), but W gained popularity after the Norman Conquest, and by 1300 it had taken wynn’s place in common use. Other forms of the letter were a pair of Vs whose branches cross in the middle. An obsolete, cursive form found in the nineteenth century in both English and German was in the form of an “n” whose rightmost branch curved around as in a cursive “v” (compare the shape of ƕ). (source: http://en.wikipedia.org/)

In the IPA vowels chart, we also can see both semivowel y and w. Phoneme y is a rounded front close vowel, while phoneme w which represented as an inverted-m is a unrounded back close vowel.

At first, I didn’t know what symbol represents phoneme w in the IPA vowels or consonants chart. However, after I read several information (history) about why grapheme w is pronounced ‘double u’, I’m quite sure that the inverted-m symbol in IPA vowels chart represents phoneme w.

It’s another miracle after UEFA Champions League ‘98/’99 Final.

It’s not just about how you play the game, but it’s also about how lucky you are..

Congrats, guys..!

Congrats to all at my beloved club, Manchester United !

Congrats, Sir ! Wish u can lead the team to regain the UEFA Champions League Trophy.

Yesterday, I want to open the case (body) of my Motorola E680i. I had searched over the internet how to open it, but I couldn’t find a guide or tutorial to do it. Here, I want to show you how to open the case (body) of your Motorola E680i (I think it’s same for E680).

First, unscrew 4 bolts located in the corners of the back-side.

Note, that there’re holes in middle-part of the back-side case.

The next picture will show you how (finally) open the case.

Look at the case design, then you will know why you should do the movements showed on the picture above.

After that, you can do whatever you want to do to your phone.

Lately, I want to install some themes in my Motorola E680i. Using Theme Manager developed by intoxicated, themes will be installed in /ezxlocal folder. The problem is our native.db, which contains our phonebook, sms, calendar, etc. (actually I forget what else, but I think it also contains our radio program channel), is located in the /ezxlocal too. My native.db’s file size is around 3 MB, while the /ezxlocal capacity just around 5.2 MB. Therefore, I need to move my native.db somewhere else in order to free some space that can be used to install some themes.

Here, I write the step-by-step that should be done to move my native.db from /ezxlocal to /diska that relatively have more space. I have tried to move the database to the MMC (/mmc), but the loading process was quite long. Thanks to akhaliq from MotorolaFans Forum for the idea.

The first thing to do is kill all of db_daemon process that run in the background.

/ # ps ax | grep db_daemon

  171 ?       S      0:02 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  191 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  192 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  195 ?       S      0:01 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  197 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  198 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  207 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  208 ?       S      0:00 /usr/bin/db_daemon -shareenv -tapi

  284 pts/0   S      0:00 grep db_daemon

/ # kill -9 171 191 192 195 197 198 207 208

Note that the command kill above depends on your own PID’s db_daemon process.

Then, do this steps.

mkdir /diska/.system/sysDatabase

cp -p /ezxlocal/sysDatabase/* /diska/.system/sysDatabase

mv /ezxlocal/sysDatabase /mmc/mmca1/sysDbBackup

cd /ezxlocal

ln -s /diska/.system/sysDatabase

chown ezx:ezx sysDatabase

chown -R ezx:ezx /diska/.system/sysDatabase

After that, reboot the phone.

The concept I used here is make a symbolic link in /ezxlocal that refers to the folder/diska/.system/sysDatabase. It is like make a shortcut in Windows environment. So, the db_daemon process still can access the contents of /ezxlocal/sysDatabase, that actually is a symbolic link to /diska/.system/sysDatabase.

Title : Like Father Like Son
Camera : Panasonic Lumic DMC-TZ3
ISO Speed : 800
Shutter speed : 1/6 s
Aperture : f/4.6
Focal Length :12.7 mm
Flash : No

International Phonetic Association had mapped vowel sounds into a chart as seen below. The y-axis represents the lip opening and the x-axis represents the tongue position.

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Several days ago, I sent a package of documents to Eindhoven, Netherlands using DHL. Using DHL’s tracking system, I tracked my package day-by-day. Just now, I checked it again and (thanks, God) finally my package delivered. If you wonder why I really happy with this, you can check the screen capture of tracking system’s report below.

- final tracking system report -
(click the picture above to see the better view)

Yup… I think you know the reason why I really happy.

I don’t know why my package, which should be sent to Eindhoven, Netherlands, has to ‘visit’ Leipzig, Germany. When I checked yesterday, I was very surprised when my package’s status is on hold in Leipzig, Germany. How came my package which should be sent to Eindhoven, Netherlands and had reached Amsterdam, Netherlands have to sent to Leipzig, Germany. I think it’s shameful for DHL, a reputable international courier service company, misdirected a package.

Unfortunately, my package, which could be delivered on March 2, 2008, delivered on March 4, 2008 - delayed 2 days. Hmm… Should I complain to DHL about this?

Yesterday, I installed Slackware 12.0 on my laptop, a Dell Inspiron 6400. I’m really surprised because the installation process (relatively) very simple. It’s really different from my previous Slackware installation. I forgot what version of the Slackware, but at that time the installation process was really frustrating.

Today, I finished configuring the system. Then, I used this new operating system to surf on the internet and I was interested in an article about the release of KDE 4.0. Because of the KDE desktop environment installed is 3.5, I wanted to install the 4.0. After read some articles and tutorials, I started to download whatever the installation process needs, from the KDE until the dependencies. However, I can’t download the kdesupport package, because it should be downloaded using svn (subversion). I don’t know why, but it always failed with the error message that the system couldn’t connect to server. Whereas, the kdesupport package is one of the four primary packages besides kdelibs, kdepimlibs, and kdebase. The bottom line is, in the end, I still use KDE 3.5 on my Slackware 12.0.

I think it’s enough for today. Maybe, I will continue to try installing the KDE 4.0 tomorrow or a day after tomorrow. Maybe…