Posted on October 27, 2006
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My seldom interest towards The Smiths has begun back in 2002. One night, MTV started to play “How Soon Is Now” video on their Classic programme. That instance, I fell in love with them.
However, the love story does not come quickly. Face it, back then I was just a struggling college student, which initially doesn’t have much money to buy a CD. So, the idea of having a Smiths record was merely a dream.
Until in 2004, I have managed to gather some money to buy my first Smiths records. It was their “Very Best of The Smiths” album. I guess that’s the beginners guide towards The Smiths, so I bought that. For long, that was my favorite album of all time.
After I have a job, I finally get to pursue my dream of collecting rare CD’s (well, the term ‘rare’ here is somewhat subjective to my own definition, so a ‘rare’ CD for me doesn’t always be a rare CD for other). Every month I can save money to buy one CD that I really want. The first couple of months I had collected some New Order records. You will surprise what records store in Indonesia could offers. Some nice rare CD’s that very tempting to collect, spread in every corner in Jakarta.
Posted on October 26, 2006
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After a successful installation of Vmware, I am moving to the next step: “How to interconnect my Ubuntu with the VMware guest OS”. I’ve installed CentOS 4.4 and FreeBSD 6.1 in my VMware.
To my surprise, the network setup was a headache! VMware has four methods in network. Bridge networking, NAT, Host-Only networking, and direct device connection. I don’t quite understand this four method, so I tried all of it in order to communicate with my guest OS. The results? Null! Both can’t connect to each other.
It has been almost a week, I’ve been trying to work these things out but no workaround has come up. Last night I tried to use the NAT setting again, suddenly I realized that this VMware NAT setting was kind of like a gateway. The guest OS and the host communicate each other using this private gateway. With this in mind, I setup the IP address using the same subnet as the VMware NAT address.
Then I test the connection…still can’t connect! I almost give up until I realized that maybe the problem was with the firewall in Ubuntu, so I disable the firewall and suddenly the Ping test works!! Thanks God! Finally it works!
So for you who likes test the connection of all your VMware guest OS with your OS, first be sure to check your firewall setting, is it allowing connection from the VMware subnet network? After that, you must ensure that the virtual interface (vmnet0-vmnet8) is working fine.
Here’s my VMware network setting:
The NAT gateway : 192.168.218.2
Host Address : 192.168.218.3
Guest OS 1 (CentOS): 192.168.218.4
Guest OS 2 (FreeBSD): 192.168.218.5
The host and the address are using the same NAT gateway : 192.168.218.2.