MVP Summit 2010 Ends

The day began like any other morning and MVP turnout at breakfast was quite scanty. A few MVPs had left at the early hours of the morning while the others are still in bed after a long night at the Garage, downtown Seattle.

Keynote was at 9am with Nestor Portilo and his supporting entertainers on Stage. Quite some new NDA stuff which I consider cool. A lot of new eye-opener to the Bing Paradigm. I enjoy that session most though

Find more picture of the summit at My Picasa

Summit is now over and all I got left are the side sessions and a party tonight with Nerd Dinner.

MVP Summit Day 1

Arrived at Bellevue yesterday aternoon like a few other MVPs but not much activities though. My MVP lead (Ruari Plint) was benevolent enough to take all MEA MVPs out to the PumpHouse for dinner.

Day One of the summit begin with MVP registration and the side sessions commenced 12pm till 3.30pm.

All MVPs were looking forward to the Keynote address with Nestor Portillo and Toby Richard.

Got my Team Canada Hockey shirt too

Thanks Mitch...

Later went rookie bowling at the Lucky Strike Lanes just across the sky bridge.

Windows 7 on MacBook

Having a MacBook is something I am quite proud about but then I am not ready to give-up the Windows that I have known all my life. I have been using Windows 7 for over a year and what a cool OS I find it to be. Even though the Mac OS X Snow Leopard is cool too. I still want my Windows running on it. What's the use of having an Intel-based processor if I can't run Windows as well. Even Linus if I choose to.

I installed Windows 7 on my BootCamp drive and it was smooth though Apple recommends on Windows XP and Windows Vista. After installation, I installed the bootcamp tools supplied by Apple. All my devices seems to work fine. One by one I checked them and tick them off in my head: Wifi- check, bluetooth -check ....

I decided to look a bit more under the hood. Fired up Device Manager and alas, two errored devices. Apple USB Ethernet and Co-Processor does not seem to have the right drivers. Fumbled around for hours without success to getting them to work. I can't live without an ethernet port even if the co-processor does not seem to matter initially; some computation will have to suffer.

Come Google to the rescue (thanks for not censoring anymore in China). Found out some other people have encountered this and no clear-cut solution until I came across a post by tnkgrl Mobile. In the post, a link to the driver is provided.

The Windows XP driver provided works like magic.