tOMPSON’s blog

Today I had a problem with my Ubuntu system running in a VMware Workstation on my notebook. First I noticed that every key I pressed occurred multiple times. Then the screensaver appeared very often after a short period of time. I looked for the reason and found out that the clock of the guest system ran way to fast.

A quick web search told me that I am not the only one with this problem. I found this article in the VMware knowledge base. After following the directives in the solution part everything worked fine again. I had to reboot because I could not find the VMware Registration Service in my services.

It seems that this problem occurs on notebooks because of their power saving mechanisms. VMware is not able to find out the correct CPU clock speed for the virtual CPU because the host is constantly changing the CPU frequency.

UPDATE: Today I found out that I still had problems with the changing CPU clock speeds. I downloaded the RMClock Utility to observe the CPU clock frequency on my host system. By selecting another power scheme in the Windows XP control panel I was able to control that.

I am a huge fan of Guitar Hero. When I played it the first time some weeks ago all I could say for minutes was “Yeah! … Cool! … Yeah! … Wow!”. It has been a long time since a computer game surprised me in that kind of way. The version of Guitar Hero I tried was “Legends of Rock” on a Playstation 3.

Last Friday I bought myself a copy of Guitar Hero Legends of Rock - I could not resist any longer. Because I wanted to play it on a console in my living room I bought a Wii too. Since that Friday I was not able to go to bed without playing at least one song. The problem is that Guitar Hero is that kind of game that makes you say “Just one more song” to yourself all the time

If you like the included songs it just feels great the more notes you hit. I created my online account that automatically stats about my Guitar Hero career - cool feature tool!

Now I got just one problem: I need more songs! I need my favorite songs! Why isn’t it possible to download songs in the Wii version like in the PS3 version?