VMware + Windows 8 + Virtual Studio 2012 Pro + VMTool = problem

When you subtract VMTool.. Everything is working just fine.  

Here are the problem that I found.

I installed the following on VMWare Fusion

Windows 8 + Virtual Studio 2012 Pro + VMTool 

I found that I cannot activate Virtual Studio 2012 Pro so I cannot use it.  VS will just keep saying "Invalid License Data .... " and refuse to work.

Solution:  Activate VS before install VMTool

Then I found another problem.  After I had Windows 8 + Virtual Studio 2012 Pro + VMTool   working, I tried to install SVN plugin.  They just won't show up in the source version control.

The same solution!: Install SVN plugin BEFORE VMTool.

I don't have time in investigate yet why VMTool prevent me from getting my job done.

If you know, please enlighten me. :)

Cheers!

Sending file to multiple computers UDPCast

If you want to send file to several computers in your computer lab, I recommend using this tool.

UDPCast from http://www.udpcast.linux.lu/

Converting image files on OS X

I just learned today from Zackary (http://blog.zloether.com/2009/07/convert-cdr-to-iso-in-os-x.html) that I can convert one disk image type to another in OS X.  Here is an example of the command

hdiutil makehybrid -iso -joliet -o [filename].iso [filename].img

The example converts .img file to .iso 

Very usuful!

Downloading Android Source

Finally getting my hand on Android. The problem is following Google instruction led me nowhere. Trying to "repo sync" and failing all the time does not help at all. Who would have though that instead of "repo sync" they should have suggest "repo sync -f" instead. Now I'm downloading Android source... Not quite happily coz my HD is running out.

How to create a movie from images using ffmpeg

Actually this is already addressed in ffmpeg FAQ. I just put here so that it's easier to find by Google. :) Official wording used by ffmpeg is "How do I encode single pictures into movies?" To do this is very simple. You need "-f image2" flag before the input file flag "-i". For the input file, you have to follow ffmpeg way of input file naming. Don't use system wildcard, e.g. "*.jpg." It will give you error.

So in my case what I have to do is

ffmpeg -f image2 -i Scene%04d.tiff test.mov

Reference: http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/faq.html#SEC14

Why do I need to do this? Well... I have been trying to find the way to make movie using Java. Unfortunately, you can't do multi-platform encoding... They just don't have multi-platform encoder for some reason...

Something new I learn today.

This news is a bit old.. Japan (as usual) has a robot suit for rent! The suit will help you walk. The suit tab a brain signal to tell the suit what to do. So I guess the day of power suit we have seen in manga and sci-fi story is near.

Source:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g-anr2tCKPv3ntRKtFh3MYM8aOigD93LME3O0z

An issue with C&C Gold free version

I found the first C&C game available for free the other day. I was quite happy to be able to play this old game again. Unfortunately, after completing several game mission, the game could not proceed because of some weird error.

After more than half an hour search on Google, I found a post on a forum, which I forgot to bookmarked, telling me that ctfmon.exe was the cause of all this. I tried killing the process and the game worked like charmed. So here I am writing about it on this blog so that I won't forget about it and may be it will save the next person from wasting his/her time.

According to www.neuber.com, "ctfmon.exe monitors the active windows and provides text input service support for speech recognition, handwriting recognition, keyboard, translation, and other alternative user input technologies." So I believe it is safe to kill it if you are not using any of the alternative user input.

Until next time

Cheers!