Maybe doing my previous post was a bad Idea….

Stuart James  …

IMPORTANT read recent posts before doing these steps!

After searching the forums for a bit I found a fix!

1. Place and rename the MSU file in an easily accessible place, e.g. C:\8preview\preview.msu

2. open command prompt in administrator mode.

3. Type: Expand –F:* c:\8preview\preview.msu C:\8preview\

4. Type: DISM.exe /Online /Add-Package /PackagePath:c:\8preview\Windows8-RT-KB2849636-x64.cab

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From Johan Rensenbrink on anwers.microsoft.com

So now for the install …

 

 

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And the anti-climax:

 

Wow I never thought this would be so hard….

Stuart James  ...

After seeing the post come up in my sad to say Facebook feed went on to download the 8.1 update for my Surface RT. Am a little confused by how this error is to be fixed but still am a little disappointed.

Error “The update is not applicable to your computer”

Hopefully will fix a bit later, for the moment no 8.1 for me and many others.

Stuart James  …

As you may of gathered from previous posts, it seems it isn’t possible to install the update on a UK surface. The only way that is rumoured to work is to flash the device and select either German or French in the setup. This is going way beyond my commitment to trying this so for the moment I am done.

As far as I can see there has been no official announcement from Microsoft about if or when there will be a fix, a rumour said July that is probably not far off. Is disappointing that no one noticed this issue and they didn’t make it clear that they were abandoning poor old UK.

So for the moment don't try, it will go no where no matter how many tricks you follow.

The book is closed for me on my quest to get 8.1 early.

Stuart James  …

A while ago I found a paper from a research project called MediaMill. They presented a technique for viewing different facets of video content in a windmill fashion. Recently I was exploring how we could visualise skeletons and thought would give the technique a try, here is a screenshot of a basic approach:

In this example each joint (of which there are 10) is represented on a “blade”. This very simple example visualise joint variation a better approach would to measure the distance between the body and variations on a specific joint but hey was just a sample.

References

To see more about different video browsers see the MediaMill project

http://www.science.uva.nl/research/mediamill

See related Rotor Browser papers at ICME or CIVR from 2007.

Stuart James  …