http://www.jhangra.com Just another WordPress weblog Mon, 24 Aug 2009 08:13:55 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Shopto.net has started taking pre-orders for the hot new Sony PS3 Slim, they are taking pre-orders at just £229.99! This is the cheapest price available yet, and its unlikely to get any cheaper than this anytime soon. The new Sony PS3 Slim features a 120GB HDD and is therefore a better ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/08/sony-ps3-slim-available-to-pre-order-on-shopto-net-now/ Last week the Russian website OpenNET leaked the news about the existence of VMware Workstation 7 and revealed all the new features of this first private beta build (translated with Google): Improvements in the support of 3D OpenGL 2.1 and Shader Model 3.0 are supported in virtual machines, Windows XP, Vista and ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/08/vmware-workstation-7-private-beta-preview/ Brandon LeBlanc has revealed the RTM date as August 6th, announcing today that MSDN, Technet, and just about anyone else who isn't a retail customer or small OEM will be able to get their hands on the English Windows 7 RTM starting August 6, 2009. Additional languages may take until ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/microsoft-windows-7-will-rtm-on-august-6th-its-official/ I am currently in the process of getting hardware for my ESX 4.0 lab, but as couldn't wait to try out ESX 4.0 I decided to install it on a VM. I have provided instructions along with a video of how to configure VMware Workstation so that you can run ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-install-esxvsphere-4-0-in-vmware-workstation-6-5-2/ I finally decided to upgrade from 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron) to 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) today, although this is probably relevant to those upgrading from 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) too. After the seemingly flawless upgrade, I decided to RDP into another machine and was presented with the following error: ‘Error in query: SELECT * FROM ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/gnome-rdp-fails-to-start-after-upgrading-ubuntu-from-hardyintrepid-to-jaunty/ My sister bought a Lenovo ThinkPad T61 recently, and (surprise, surprise) it only came with the 32-bit version of Windows Vista. In fact, it only came with a 4GB recovery partition on the hard drive. No Windows installation disc, no recovery CD, nothing. The idea was that if something bad ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/installing-microsoft-vista-64-bit-using-32-bit-oem-key/ I had a bear of a time trying to find Vista x64 drivers for this scanner, so with some help from "Smoove Love" over at planetAMD64 forums, I was able to deconstruct the x64 drivers for the Perfection 2400 and create a driver install package for the 1660. This driver set ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/64-bit-drivers-for-epson-perfection-1660-photo-scanner/ I managed to pick up the 3 (three) ZTE MF627 for just £9.99, it also came with a voucher for five free album downloads. This was using purchased from '3 Dongle 4 Free'. I know they did these for free a few weeks a go, but I missed that offer. I ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/how-to-unlock-your-3-zte-mf627-usb-mobile-broadband-dongle/ To complete this tutorial you need a 32bit version of Windows XP or Windows Vista installed on your home PC. What you'll need: USB_PREP8 PeToUSB Bootsect.exe Special Note: If you use the program Nlite be sure to keep the manual installation files as the USB_prep8 script relies on these files. Extract the files in Bootsect.zip The next ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/07/installing-windows-xp-from-external-usb-disk-drive/ Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT) is a set of hardware enhancements to Intel server and client platforms that provide software-based virtualization solutions. Intel VT allows a platform to run multiple operating systems and applications in independent partitions, allowing one computer system can function as multiple virtual systems. Enabling Intel VT on using ... http://www.jhangra.com/blog/2009/06/enabling-intel-vt-on-sony-vaio-notebook-with-ami-aptio-efi-bios/