Curse these smartin strings! These fucken ruptures!

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The good news: EAC works fine under VMware and connecting via Ethernet and bridging the VMware Windows to the Ethernet port gives Windows net access. The bad news: VMware virtualises the CD-ROM interface so EAC can't work its evil properly and VMware takes over the network connection so I can't use the host box on the network at the same time. Which misses the point, really. There are many ways around the second problem and we'll see what ways there are around the first. Suggestions are most welcome from those who have beaten on VMware.

It's been a quiet domestic weekend. We've bought crap on eBay. I am about to look for work. arkady has prepared a dollie for sale — go look and, preferably, buy.

Update: The network problem appears to have been that vmnet8 was set to use the same private network as the house router. Well done. The CD problem appears more troublesome — I need the ide-scsi module or an actual SCSI CD-ROM drive to perform digital audio extraction.

Another 256MB of memory (all this laptop will take) might come in handy too:

  PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND
31011 root      18   0 1345m 486m  444 D  0.7 64.2   0:25.80 vmnet-dhcpd
 9308 fun        5 -10  300m 2756 2088 S  2.0  0.4   0:49.70 vmware-vmx