Spot the fish

Believe it or not, there is a fish hiding somewhere in this photograph. It saw me approaching the tank with my camera, and after a moment of furious fishy panic, it quickly manoeuvred itself into a position where it would be mostly obscured from direct viewing, and nigh invisible against the background. Such a clever fish. Surely if it was not in a sealed tank, and I was a fish-eating predator it would be perfectly safe.



So far I am impressed with the camera in this phone - especially in lighting conditions as poor as they were for this shot. The images are not quite as sharp as you would get with a real lens, but the fact that it supports shooting RAW gives me a lot of leeway to play with sharpness and detail after the fact. I cleaned up this shot a bit after the fact, but after playing with a couple of different crops, I decided to keep the original image.

Ubuntu

I was poking around on my hard drive this morning when I stumbled onto the image for an old, virtual XP machine I had been playing with. I fired up Hyper-V to see if I could get it going, but it was adamant that it needed to connect and activate itself again (maybe it had been sitting too long - I dunno). I gave up on that, but in the back of my mind I began toying with the idea of setting up a virtual Linux machine to play with.

I was not sure if the virtual machine in Windows 10 would support Linux, but I decided there was a good way to find out. I set aside enough resources to install an Ubuntu box, downloaded the latest ISO and fired up the virtual box to see if it would install. Ten minutes later I had this.



I had been thinking about installing Linux over top of Vista on my old Dell laptop, but this virtual desktop actually has far more resources available to it than the notebook would. The only thing I have not managed to get working yet is the sound, but that's not a game breaker for me. Now that I have it, I don't know what I plan to do with it, but I am fascinated by the whole virtualization aspect of it.