Santa – I’ve been really good this year (cough cough,,,)

TVisto Series 3.5” Multimedia External Hard Drive Enclosure Metal Gear 3500TVIS

LaCie – Brick Desktop Hard Drive – Hi-Speed USB 2.0
I like it…

Great shot this

North Atlantic Skyline: Gorillaz

If you have an hour to spare (or have some long commute coming up), I recommend that you download the audio file from the link below, stick it into your media player of choice, and have a good listen.

IT Conversations: David Bornstein – New Solutions

I am seriously considering getting the book, in fact, I think I will…

R

I had put together a very simple subversion update nautilus script, as I figured that it was at times handier than going to a command line, and then figured that somebody out there had more than likely done something similar… and indeed they had.

The script and related info can be found at this site, Nautilus Scripts for Subversion.

I have only tested the update function so far, but it seems to work nicely.

So now I get back to trying to implement my own xmms nautilus script (although there are some out there, this one I figure, I can do by myself )

R

interesting – flock has a blog editing tool, this post created by same.

R

after a considerable amount of annoyance, I eventually found this link to the ubuntu wiki.

installing the ‘any-any’ patch did the trick for me. so at last, vmware is working again, normally.

R

As I was sending an sms via the web frontend provided by vodafone, I remembered the last time I checked my account details online (saves on paper, and reduces paperwork needed for filing…), a link for usage statistics. I had a peek…

the service appears to have only started since september (or maybe thats when I changed my account type), so all the statistics appear to start on that bill. This appears to mean, that everything is based on that initial increase, and used as the number by which the percentage is set.

grand. i.e. from 0 to 43 = 100%

so on the next of statistics, I have used my phone less, hence the cost of calls is less.
here come the numbers….

on the september stats, the total for calls was… 68 Euro.
on the october stats, the total for calls was………..9 Euro.
(I was more judicious of my phone calls that month…)

According the vodafone stats, I have increased my usage from september to october by …

… 628%…!

hmmm

text messages in september = 19 Euro
text messages in october …..= 5 Euro

september to october, percentage usage increase of

… 273%…!

I’m no statistician, but is just me or is there a problem there somewhere?

the problem.

I try and re-install/recompile Vmware workstation 5. With all the requirements specified.
At this stage in the process (after compiling the required kernel modules), when it starts the Vmware services


Starting VMware services:
Virtual machine monitor done
Virtual ethernet done
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet0 failed
Bridged networking on /dev/vmnet2


the process just hangs. I am then unable to run any command with sudo, it hangs before asking for the password, e.g.

reibrand@hal:~$ sudo synaptic or
reibrand@hal:~$ sudo locate -u

Any other command requiring sudo also just hangs. Because of this I am unable to check logs to see what is going on. I can su into alright, but trying to launch any system command also handgs, simple things such as ‘ifconfig’ and other commands also just hang. When I say hang, they respond to no key sequence whatsoever, ctrl+C ctrl+D …

So that’s. On reboot, it the shutdown process just stalls when it tries to stop the vmnet2 service/interface

The strange this is that I can not ssh into the machine with the problem, and run whatever I need to either, there is simply no connection, although I can ping alright.

So thats that. I’d love to hear any suggestions!

R
Update: this was resolved using the steps shown here