GoPro Camera found after 10 months in the Ocean – very cool picture!

 

So I was listening to the radio and found out about this guy who lost his GoPro camera while taking some pics with it on vacation. He had it on the front of his board while he was paddle surfing. The camera came off and he lost it and figured it was gone. Some 10 months later, a couple found it 15 miles away on the beach…they put the SD card in a computer and pulled up the pics.  The camera had continued to take pictures until it ran out of battery/space on the SD card.

The reason I even mention it here is because he is from my home town!

You can read more about the story here and here.

Anyway…the picture is the amazing thing – check this out!

 

Windows 8 Consumer Preview on vSphere (ESXi) 5

 

So Microsoft just released Windows 8 Consumer Preview for people to download and try.

You can get it here.

So….I decided there was no harm in installing it in a virtual machine on my vSphere 5 home lab.

When you first setup the VM, pick Windows 7 as your OS. This makes sure that you use the correct ethernet (e1000). Then you must make sure you check the little “Enable 3D Support” on the Video card when you edit the settings of the virtual machine.

After installation, don’t install the WDDM driver or you will likely experience problems.

The installation looks a lot like Windows 7 (except for the initial boot with the fish).

Once you are in, if you click the Desktop, you will see a desktop screen that looks very much like Windows 7.  All the same commands work – services.msc etc.

Seems to work pretty good – just looks to me like they have put a front-end on it to make it look snazzier.

Jim