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RSSSold wingloon.com for USD 1000
Apr 01
I am pleased to announce that I sold wingloon.com for USD 1000. However, this blog will be continued to run till Dec 31, 2011.
Happy reading.
Recover UniFi PPPoE Password
Mar 15
Do you ever forget the password of your UniFi? To recover your password from the Residential Gateway (which is the D-Link DIR-615) provided by TM. Simply login to your Residential Gateway aka RG by telnet or ssh to the RG. Once you successfully logged into the RG, you can run the command below: -
cat /etc/ppp/chap-secrets
You will see an output as below: -
"username@unifi" * "yourpassword" *
Newsmap Changing the Way of Viewing News
Dec 16
Newsmap, a web application tool that let you visualize Google News in a big landscape type on your screen. With Newsmap, you can manipulate the view of news by country as well as category. You can have your choice of flavors effect to view your news by selecting combination across several countries and categories.
News which given the most coverage can be an easy eye catching to users as compare to viewing conventional news aggregator. A simple mouse over to the news, a small pop-up will give you a summary and image of the news. Clicking on the target news square box will redirect you to the news source. However, you can further customize your daily viewing of news at Newsmap by registering a free account like hide clicked articles, toggle display previews, changing of font type, changing of map colors and toggle of preferred countries.
Reading news is not bored with Newsmap anymore. Thanks to Jolicloud for featuring Newsmap. Perhaps, how about putting up Newsmap on a big LCD panel.
Google Chrome 8.0.552.215 Moved to Stable
Dec 06
The 8th version of Google Chrome is in stable release. Apart from the 800 over bug fixes and stability improvements, Chrome 8.0.552.215 now has a built in PDF viewer that is secured within Chrome’s sandbox. If you are not an offline installer user, your Chrome will be automatically updated, please correct me if I am wrong. However, if you want offline installer for mass deployment of Chrome, you may proceed to download the Google Chrome 8.0.552.215 for Windows.
Source: Google Chrome Releases
Remote Mount a VMDK File Using vmware-mount
Dec 03
After years of using VMware products, be it VMware Server, VMware Workstation, VMware Infrastructure and VMware vSphere, I haven’t encounter failure on booting a Windows OS. But, one fine day this week itself, one of the Windows Server 2003 virtual machine (VM) can’t boot up because of missing boot.ini file.
Without any delay, I download the Virtual Disk Development Kit 1.2.1 from http://www.vmware.com/support/developer/vddk/ and I copy out the virtual disk from the shared storage which is virtual_machine_name-flat.vmdk (file name is an example only) with the filesize of 20GB. I tried mounting the VMDK file locally but failed. After several tries, I decided to copy the rest of the files in the VM folder from the share storage. Woot woot, I am able to mount the VMDK file using the command below: -
# vmware-mount X: "C:\VM\virtual_machine_name.vmdk"
Now, the VMDK file is mounted as X: drive letter locally so I begin to copy a good copy of boot.ini file. Copying those files to the shared storage is a pain because I have to wait 30 mins. Once the copying is completed, I begin to power on the VM but it failed to boot up telling me that NTDETECT.com is missing. What the heck, I have to copy thoses file again from shared 
After, copying a good copy of NTDETECT.com and a successfully boot up of the VM then I was relief. Its time for me to hack the remote mount a VMDK file. Indeed, I successfully mount the VMDK remotely. Yatta. Please use the command below: -
# vmware-mount X: "[Shared_Storage] virtual_machine_name/virtual_machine_name.vmdk" /i:"DataCenter/vm/Servers/virtual_machine_name" /h:VCenterName /u:"domain\user_name" /s:your_password
With the command above, the VMDK is mounted as X: drive letter. Please take note as below: -
[Shared_Storage] virtual_machine_name/virtual_machine_name.vmdk = you can get this path in vSphere Client, Edit Settings on the VM and select the virtual disk
/i:”DataCenter/vm/Servers/virtual_machine_name” = you can get this in the tree view of vShphere Client, the “vm” in this path is complusory
To list/view mounted volume(s), run the command below: -
# vmware-mount /L
To umount a mounted volume, run the command below: -
# vmware-mount X: /d
I hope the commands above will help you in your daily VMware job. Please feel free to give comments and suggestions to the commands I shared. Thank you.
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