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[Thief^]

When you say "clip to adjust my headphones", do you mean an "inline volume control"? They're quite well known for breaking, and cheaper headphones (without one) are often more reliable.

Personally my favourite ever headphones were my cordless Sennheisers, but they weren't cheap. No wire to break though, so they lasted over a decade easily.

[Akura]

No, the clip for adjusting the length of the headband. Without it, the left earpiece(which also holds the mic) falls right off.

[Thief^]

I haven't heard of that before O.o

[Akura]

Looking at the reviews of the same model, it's apparently a common complaint, though in most cases it happens on arrival or after a week; I've had mine for over a year. It's also a fairly common complaint for headphones in the $30-$40 range as well, so there's no real value lost here. I haven't taped it back together yet, but it's still holding. I don't know how long it'll last.

[Bauglir]

I've been working with VMware Workstation, and I'm trying to set up a machine to act as a proxy server. However, I can't figure out how to configure network adapters in this damned thing, and that's kind of a problem. All of the information I can find on the subject says to edit the Virtual Machine Settings menu, and shows an image like

Spoiler: this. (click to show/hide)

Unfortunately, I have

Spoiler: this. (click to show/hide)

As you can see, all the options that would allow me to select which network the adapter is on is missing, and all I've got to replace it is a dropdown menu that, as far as I can tell, serves no purpose.

How the devil do I get to the sort of situation the former screenshot has?

EDIT: I worked out a workaround by changing what I had decided I needed to do, but I never actually solved this problem and would still love some tips.

[i2amroy]

Stupid question, but did you try clicking that "advanced" button? That seems exactly like the place where they might hide some of those missing settings between versions.

[Bauglir]

Yeah, it just lets me pick a MAC address for the card. It's baffling.

[wierd]

More than likely, some corporate suit decided that such functionality needed to be part of the paid offering instead of the free one, as part of a plan to force people to buy the paid offering.

At this point, I would just suggest one of the many QEMU front ends, and be done with it. FOSS doesn't typically take options away from you like that.

(There are two that work on windows, QEMU Manager, and QtEMU.)

http://qemu-manager.software.informer.com/7.0/
https://qtemu.org/

Both provide nice GUI front-ends to QEMU, which does virtualization whenever possible, like vmware does. If you ask me, QEMU gives you slightly more control over the virtual machine's hardware, including what kind of nic to emulate, etc.

[Bauglir]

Sadly, not only is it the paid version as far as I know (admittedly got for free through one of the local university's licensing schemes), it's also not my choice which system to use. Working with other people and stuff. If it were up to me I'd just use Virtualbox and have done with it. I'll keep those you mentioned in mind for the future, though!

[Aklyon]

Have you tried asking the other people why they're using the one with a bad menu then?

[Bauglir]

Have you tried asking the other people why they're using the one with a bad menu then?

I don't see any reason I'd be able to convince them to repeat all the work they did configuring other systems on the network because of a bad menu that I was able to work around, so no. I mean, if the answer is "There's no way to get it to work properly" that's fine, but I'm not too interested in griping about the application I have to use being less than ideal. That's generally the case in the real world anyway, by my understanding - you'll get handed an environment you just have to work with and rules you have to follow, whether you've got better ideas or not. My hope was that there was some way to get the environment to do what I wanted, not to get an alternative environment (although knowing alternatives will be nice for the future, it doesn't help me now).

[wierd]

IIRC, you can probably still pass the configuration information to vmware by manually editing the machine config file.

Unless they have changed it, it used to be a basic text file inside. If you can find an example machine config file to borrow from, you can manually configure it, even if the GUI is insisting on mittens mode.

(think about it this way: you have an established virtual cluster set up and working, and vmware pushes an update. Your machines already have config files. It makes no sense for vmware to break your deployment because of a regression of features in the GUI. The actual VM is defined by the config file, which is already set up. VMware should accept older flavor config files without a hiccup, if they are at all datacenter friendly.)

[Bauglir]

That's a fair point. It'd probably be good for me to learn to poke around in those anyway. I'll do that sometime. Thanks!

[Sonlirain]

Ok. Me with another weird issue.
For a good time now when turning my PC on or returning from sleep mode my GPU's fans go absolutely bonkers.
I'm talking vacuum cleaner levels of noise here.
The case fan is still but the ones on my card just go all out as if the card itself was on fire and i have no idea why.
They also don't seem to stop unless i do a reset.
The drivers are all up to date and i wonder if it's something with the mobo or some sort of hardware flaw on the GPU itself.

Overall i'm kinda worried because if not the GPU then itrs fans might get damaged and... well i doubt this carw ould last long without them.

It's an R9 380 by the way.

[Thief^]

I'd guess at some kind of driver issue. It's normal for fans to be put to full power at first power-on before driver control takes over, to stop the card or whatever else overheating before the system finishes booting.