Lenovo T400s

I've won this great ThinkPad during recent Windows 7 launch.
What could i say, fine built notebook with the legendary Thinkvantage feature. Being using it for my POC on Vmware vSphere 4 environment since the Intel vPro processor provide great virtualization feature.
The only downside for me right now was the display driver provided for Win7 quite crappy right now, hoping they release the fix soon.

Titanium USB Cruzer from Sandisk

Had mine with 16Gb of size. Due to file system allocation the only space left still quite hefty 15Gb. Tried the U3 suite a bit impressive. But for me but still useless since this drive will only fully utilize the U3 suite in windows. After clean formatted the disk then the problem came in. Couldnt format it to NTFS, since my main purposes is to transport hefty 5-8 Gb mkv files. Then the solution a bit tricky.
1- Under Device Manager find the drive thru the Disk Drive.
2- Double click the drive.
3- Set the policy to 'Optimize for Performance.
4- Then format the drive (to NTFS ) the usual way.

USB Access in VMWare (Ubuntu Jaunty)

sometime the VMWare host on linux probably wont recognize the USB devices. this problem didnt happened during my time with previous release of ubuntu (hardy, gutsy).

collected this simple solution through the Ubuntu forum.

sudo gedit /etc/fstab

Then, add this line:
# USB for vmware/vbox
none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=46,devmode=664 0 0

then the usb will be connected like a charm.
just go through
VM>Removable Devices>USB Device.

new direction of the blog

i think it is time for me to change the direction for the blog.
from now on i will use it for jotting down my troubleshooting in Linux, Mac or Windows.

the first one will be how to sync the fast pacing seconds in vmware guest in Ubuntu Intrepid host.


Got the solution from another blogger.
basically the kernel send the value of processor time to vm kernel.
in some core 2 duo it will make the seconds go faster than the host itself. It cant be controlled even by the vm tools installed in the vm. Just need to put extra line in the vm setting.

quoting from the blog itself

"Turns out that my processors automatically scale down (Core 2 Quads), and so I needed to edit /etc/vmware/config and add the line host.cpukHz = 2400000 which is the correct one for my 2.4GHz CPU. After this, I restarted the vmware-server service, and the time is perfectly synced.

I was able to confirm the kHz number to use by running burnp6 from the cpuburn package on all four cores and looking at /proc/cpuinfo to see what speed it reached."

New year

another day goes by and another year came knocking
as the 'master oogway' in kung fu panda said
" Yesterday is history,tomorrow is a mystery,but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

Heroes Season 3 ended

another cliffhanger ending from one of my favorite tv series. damn need to wait until next year's february for season 4. this time the chapter will be titled "fugitives"

F50.8 wooohooo

my first time wearing adidas superbly fine cleat F50.8 tunit. what can i say was one hell fine shoe. very light, glove like fitting. the only bad news was my team finish in draw even after many chances