IDE vs SCSI Emulation of VMware in Linux

VMware is a marvelous software, especially those who (like me) needs to setup test environment quickly and efficiently. Using it, there is no need for me to search/prepare hardware, there is no need to fix or troubleshoot any potential hardware problem (e.g. disk failure). It really helps my work a lot.
I would consider myself as [...]

Weird Intel-HDA!

I am the kind of Linux user would try out the latest Linux kernel whenever there is a new release. So, with the new release of kernel 2.6.24, I download it and install into my laptop.
Everything seems to be working fine. Unfortunately, the onboard sound card went silence after the update.
Some background information before I [...]