Monday, November 30, 2009
Time to map out all the soup kitchens.
Well, I finally packed up my work laptop and sent it back to my employer. As of tomorrow I will be unemployed. But I do have some phone interviews setup so that isn't too bad for a December. Need to file for unemployment tomorrow.
Thursday, November 5, 2009
VirtualBox is amazing
So I went to the Microsoft event yesterday and got a Win 7 Ultimate license.
A few years back I had done the same and got a Vista Ultimate key and got a copy of the Vista Ultimate 64-bit ISO. When I tried to use the key that was distributed with the 32-bit DVD from the event it didn't work. As a student I was able to get a discount license for Vista Ultimate and for some reason, the key that I got from the Microsoft event worked with the ISO that I had purchased. Weird.
I thought maybe that would happen again as the handout DVD was only for the 32-bit Win 7 Ultimate. I got a copy of a Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit ISO and decided that I would test out the install and see if the key would work correctly.
My main rig, an i7 920 machine with 12 gigs of RAM was busy performing a backup so I decided to fire up VirtualBox on my now aging Acer Ferrari 5000 machine and did a VM install of Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit to a VM and verified that the key worked just fine (yay!).
It wasn't until this morning that I realized that I had installed Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit virtual machine on a laptop running Vista 32-bit. And it worked.
Wow.
That just rocks.
A few years back I had done the same and got a Vista Ultimate key and got a copy of the Vista Ultimate 64-bit ISO. When I tried to use the key that was distributed with the 32-bit DVD from the event it didn't work. As a student I was able to get a discount license for Vista Ultimate and for some reason, the key that I got from the Microsoft event worked with the ISO that I had purchased. Weird.
I thought maybe that would happen again as the handout DVD was only for the 32-bit Win 7 Ultimate. I got a copy of a Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit ISO and decided that I would test out the install and see if the key would work correctly.
My main rig, an i7 920 machine with 12 gigs of RAM was busy performing a backup so I decided to fire up VirtualBox on my now aging Acer Ferrari 5000 machine and did a VM install of Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit to a VM and verified that the key worked just fine (yay!).
It wasn't until this morning that I realized that I had installed Win 7 Ultimate 64-bit virtual machine on a laptop running Vista 32-bit. And it worked.
Wow.
That just rocks.
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