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Using VMware – Run trial software indefinitely without registration.

January 28th, 2009 Dale No comments

I’ve been playing round with VMware Workstation recently. I’ve found a neat trick that you can do with it which could allow you to run trial software indefinitely without registering it. I suppose this could also be used for Beta’s of windows etc. This should also work on Vmware ESX, Workstation and Vmware Server. (Vmware Server is Free)

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Xbox 360 Streaming with Vista, VMware Workstation and Windows Media Player 11

January 27th, 2009 Dale 2 comments

I’ve been able to stream movies etc to my Xbox for a while now using Vista Home Premium and Windows Media Player 11. However the other day I decided to install VMware Workstation 6.5 on my laptop. Streaming then stopped working. Whenever I went into “configure sharing” in media player. I was presented with the following error message :

Media sharing is currently disabled, either because the sharing service is not running or your firewall settings have changed. To restart sharing, you must first confirm your sharing settings.

Media Player 11

I tried a couple of things to get streaming to work, all resulted in no joy. Eventually I found 2 ways of getting it to work.

1) In Network and Sharing Center simply change the unidentified network to private. However when you next reboot it goes back to its prior state. This is less than ideal.

2) Disable the 2 VMware NICs. This is the option I took. Since I only use Bridged networking in my VM’s there is no impact. If you use NAT or host then this is not an option for you.

If anyone know any permanent way to make the vmware network private permanently then please let me know.

iPhone 2.2.1 Firmware

January 27th, 2009 Dale No comments

New firmware is out for the iPhone.

At the moment it looks like it is just a bunch of bugfixes :-

- Improved general stability of Safari
- Fixed issue where some images saved from Mail do not display correctly in the Camera Roll

Word from the dev team is dont update at the moment as it might break yellowsnow

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01792473533 – Spam Text

January 27th, 2009 Dale 1 comment

Just received a text from 01792473533 saying :

“Due to changes in law you may now be eligible to have any loans finance or credit cards cleared with claim management uk call 01792473533″

Dunno how they got my number!!!

Use “who calls me” to find out who they are.

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Mamma Mia

January 25th, 2009 Dale No comments

Well I think everyone had a great day in London.

Here is a video of everyone at the restaurant singing. Was a well good laugh.

Video is from Tim’s phone so bit crappy quality, however u get the idea

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I’ve also uploaded David’s dark video to youtube and added it to my site.

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