September 2007 Archives

Watching an AMV with the backing tune from The Fray, called How to Save a Life, it reminds me that I have an awful lot of Anime to watch at the moment, as well as an awful lot of books, as well as an awful lot of other things to do.
Limited interest, really

Every time you reinstall vmware it seems to recreate your network interfaces, and at the same time reassigns the ip addresses that you had set up. If you want to move them then you need to edit a file and a couple of registry entries.
The first file is %APPDATA%\VMware\vmnetdhcp.conf. On XP it's normally C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data, Under Vista that's C:\ProgramData. Note, however that when UAC is enabled, this folder experiences redirection on write by unprivileged users, so editing this file as an ordinary user will have no effect, so make sure that you use a privileged editor when altering this file.
The content you want to change are the Subnet and Range entries to match your original subnet entries you had. You can also put in entries for the domain-name and router. When you add this information it gives you the ability to mark a the subnet as identified under Vista, so you can be in an identified network, and thus be discoverable. Please note that doing this and then putting an insecure OS on the client vm is your own fault.
The other entries that need to be altered are in the registry. The first one is HKLM\Software\VMware, Inc.\VMnetLib\VMnetConfig\vmnet? entries - the IPSubnetAddress entry needs to be changed to match the entries that you set in the .conf file. The next one is a little bit tricky - it's HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\VMnetDHCP\Parameters\VirtualEthernetSegments\?, the value is HostIpAddress - and it needs to be mapped. The value is a endian-reversed representation of your address so if your ip address is 192.168.22.1 the value would be 0x0116A8C0, C0==192, a8==168, 16=22, 01=01. Use Calc to get the values that you should put in there.
Restart the service "vmware dhcp service", and then you should be OK.

It's really a big lie when they promise you the data rates. This is a snapshot of the data rates I'm getting from my 3 data modem. The numbers listed for the transfer rates are in kilobits per second, not kilobytes per second. There is a factor of 8 difference in the rates, and I've never seen the damned thing go much above 1000. I've tried, using the blacknight Irish ISP speed test, and have not seen it rate my line as much better than ISDN download and 56k modem upload.
Then there's access to various web sites. I will regularly get cut off downloading - a lot of times I can never download the damned stuff I'm trying to get at. This is particularly annoying with google and youtube videos - they stall about a minute in and I can't see anything else from them.
Every time in the last three weeks I've tried to access del.icio.us, it's been a bust - it simply does not make the connection, I'm left with a stupid error message.
Every time I try to download my email from my pop provider (indigo.ie - i.e. pre-eircom), the connection times out. I can connect using any other provider. Waulgh! This is just not worth it for only having it for the weekends. I should get eircom into the house in Kerry, that way at least someone else can get some use from it.

Ok, thinking about buying one of the new Ipods (Yes, the capitalisation is InTeNtIoNaL). Daire is going to hate me for mentioning that I have been considering getting a Macbook Pro. So I did the math. The Euro:Dollar exchange rate is about 1.3:1, so it saves me a bit more than €500 to get the machine. Soooo.... it's cheaper to fly to New York for a long weekend and buy all my Apple desires in the US than it is to buy it in the store in Euro. So, I'll probably be visiting the sister relatively soon then :)