Comments for Dennis Tsang http://dennistt.net Dennis' little corner on the big big internet! Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:56:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Comment on Side Project 1: Real Time Bus Map in Vancouver by Dennis http://dennistt.net/2012/01/11/side-project-1-real-time-bus-map-in-vancouver/#comment-1168 Dennis Sun, 03 Mar 2013 03:56:38 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=6#comment-1168 Hey Sunny, long time no chat.

The link is at http://tcomm.bustrainferry.com. I’ll update the blog post, since now I use the official data source from TransLink, I can publicize the site.

Dennis

]]> Comment on Side Project 1: Real Time Bus Map in Vancouver by Sunny http://dennistt.net/2012/01/11/side-project-1-real-time-bus-map-in-vancouver/#comment-1157 Sunny Sat, 02 Mar 2013 11:39:41 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=6#comment-1157 I would like the link pls:P

]]> Comment on Getting a new Windows system up and running with Ninite by dbarreda http://dennistt.net/2013/02/23/getting-a-new-windows-system-up-and-running-with-ninite/#comment-1046 dbarreda Sat, 23 Feb 2013 18:14:24 +0000 http://secure.dennistt.net/?p=2030#comment-1046 very useful application, thanks!

]]> Comment on VMWare ESXi 5 Whitebox by R. Kuntz http://dennistt.net/2012/02/09/vmware-esxi-5-whitebox/#comment-275 R. Kuntz Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:30:53 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=34#comment-275 I forget my recommended build:

Motherboard: MSI 1366 X58 Pro-E ~ 75$
Processor: Intel i7 920 @ 2,66GHz ~ 200$
or (for large wallet): Intel i7 980 (not X) BX80613I7980 @ 3,33 GHz ~ 500$
RAM: 4GB G.Skill NT Series DDR3-1333 DIMM CL9 Single x6 (24gb) ~ 70$

NIC: Intel network card EXPI9301CTBLK 1 Port 10/100/1000Mbit/s PCIe x1 BULK ~ 20$
Controller (low budged): Promise SATA300 TX4 ~ 50$
Controller (for large wallet): LSI MegaRAID SAS8344ELP (256MB) ~ 300$
+ Battery (for LSI): ~ 150$

]]> Comment on VMWare ESXi 5 Whitebox by R. Kuntz http://dennistt.net/2012/02/09/vmware-esxi-5-whitebox/#comment-274 R. Kuntz Sat, 17 Nov 2012 23:10:12 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=34#comment-274 Hey Dennis,

i work many years with ESXi, i prefer ESXi 4.1. 5 is not realy better in stable, but have a better managed pathtrue.
A hint for you ;) if you can get the Hardware-ID from your on board NIC you can add it to ESXi. You just need to add the Dev-ID to your vendor and bake a custom OEM.tgz. Then you are able to install ESXi with the modified vendor and many Storage Controller and NIC’s that dosn’t seams to work… work perfektly ;) .

For more informations you can have a look at this site:
http://www.vm-help.com/esx40i/esx40_whitebox_HCL.php

This is a whitebox for 4.x but also help for 5 sometimes.

For aditional NIC’s optional i realy can recommend the Low Profile “Pro/1000″ Desktop cards, MT/GT. This are cards that are based on the E1000 chipset which is recommended from VmWare. And ESXi realy like this cards. ;)

In germany you get a Low Profile “Pro/1000″ for arround 10$.

Now i hope you forgive me my bad english. ^^

]]> Comment on VMWare ESXi 5 Whitebox by Dennis http://dennistt.net/2012/02/09/vmware-esxi-5-whitebox/#comment-266 Dennis Sun, 11 Nov 2012 09:32:41 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=34#comment-266 Unfortunately I haven’t used any multiport NIC cards to recommend any.

]]> Comment on VMWare ESXi 5 Whitebox by Go http://dennistt.net/2012/02/09/vmware-esxi-5-whitebox/#comment-265 Go Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:42:28 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=34#comment-265 It is quite good site I was looking for. I’m wondering adding more NIC cards such as 4 ports so that I can work with switches and create network segments. do you recommend any multi-ports nic card?
thank you!

]]> Comment on VMWare ESXi 5 Whitebox by Dennis http://dennistt.net/2012/02/09/vmware-esxi-5-whitebox/#comment-256 Dennis Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:13:07 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=34#comment-256 Yes, that’s the only video card I have in the system. Right now, ESXi boot screen shows up on it, then mid way during the boot (I guess when the passthrough gets initialized) the screen freezes until a VM starts up and takes over the device.

I haven’t tried passing through the video card to Linux, I’ve only used it on my Windows 7 VM.

]]> Comment on App Remote – Unleashing the Apple Remote by clive http://dennistt.net/2012/09/04/app-remote-unleashing-the-apple-remote/#comment-238 clive Thu, 13 Sep 2012 06:49:20 +0000 http://secure.dennistt.net/?p=165#comment-238 awesome!!! now market it, mark it up and sell it! but free for youth min whooohooooooooooo!!!! :)

]]> Comment on VMWare ESXi 5 Whitebox by Ryan Jennings http://dennistt.net/2012/02/09/vmware-esxi-5-whitebox/#comment-234 Ryan Jennings Fri, 07 Sep 2012 15:18:25 +0000 http://dennistt.net/?p=34#comment-234 Based on your post I purchased similar hardware. You mentioned you passthrough the 5450 video card. Is that the only video card in the system?

I have an older nvidia card in the x16 slot closest to the cpu, then the 5450 in the next slot over. That boots such that the older card displays the esxi local screen. When I had the cards swapped around the other way then the esxi local screen was on the 5450. I was hoping to use the older card for esxi and passthrough the 5450. I was scared of something not working someday and then having the only video card passed through to a vm leaving me no way to fix things. I haven’t been able to get the 5450 to work passed through in Ubuntu. It recognizes and installs the driver ok, but I can’t run the ATI catalyst software.

]]>