Just found out how to turn on vmware-tools clocking syncing from inside the guest, rather than editing the .vmx file on the host.

Once you have vmware-tools installed and configured try this:

/usr/sbin/vmware-guestd --cmd "vmx.set_option synctime 0 1"

To verify this has worked look for this line in the corresponding .vmx file:

tools.syncTime = "TRUE"

Whilst relaxing down here on the IOW, I’ve found (thanks to @yankcrime) what I think is, so far my favorite iPhone game. Its called Flight Control (Broken link http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/) from Firemint (Broken link ~~http://www.firemint.com/~~). According to their background (Broken link http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/background.html) info it started out as a Christmas Vacation coding exercise, well it was worth it. I’m utterly addicted, and how the hell the bloke in the video (Broken link http://www.firemint.com/flightcontrol/video.html) gets a high score of 96, I’ll never know. You can find it in the App Store (Broken link http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewSoftware?id=306220440&mt=8)

Screenshot of Flight Control, the iPhone game

I’ve just needed to snapshot a virtual machine running under VMware Fusion on my Mac but I only had SSH access. I’ve discovered the vmrun utility which is hidden away in XXX. VMware have a PDF of how to use it here. Very handy!

% <strong>export PATH=/Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/:$PATH<br /> % vmrun listSnapshots SpaceWalk.vmx</strong><br /> Total snapshots: 1<br /> Fresh 5.2 all updates<br /> % <strong>vmrun -T fusion snapshot SpaceWalk.vmx "SpaceWalk Installed"</strong><br /> % <strong>vmrun listSnapshots SpaceWalk.vmx</strong><br /> Total snapshots: 2<br /> Fresh 5.2 all updates<br /> SpaceWalk Installed<br /> %

Bravo!

I took Jenny to Ghent for a few days for her birthday, after visiting Brugge and Brussels last year it was another place we fancied seeing.

I’ve just had a bit of a Google for a ICS format calendar for this years F1 season and found this (Dead link http://www.colinchau.com/blog/2009/02/f1-2009-season-timetable-for-google-calendar one already made and shared.

We have a clear winner so far! This thing flies amazingly well. Will happily fly 8 to 9 meters across the office. Amazing!

The consensus is that this is the best flyer so far. Glides very nicely, with a little twist to the back it can be made to fly a nice gentle circuit.

I just spotted what I think is a new feature on Google Maps. If you click any tube station, in addition to the little information box showing which lines the station is on, which has been there for some time. They now overlay the tube lines on the map itself. Kind of handy to have all there in front of you.

Google maps screenshot showing the tube lines overlaid

This is a slideshow of all the currently made paper planes. 36 at the moment (13/02/09), not including those which the cleaner got.