Bending video card?

This is a new one for me!  I have never seen a passive heat sink "fail" and cause the card to bend!  Notice the bottom of the heat-sink is bulged out, and the screw head is at an angle.  The card seems to work perfectly, I just don't trust it.  The card is an AMD/ATI HD 6450.

P2V debacle

I got assigned a task of moving a VM from one site to another site recently.  No big deal....except...NO shared storage.  Oh and the source is VMware v6.5 VM and the destination host is a Hyper-V 2012r2 host.  Cripes.....

The VM to be migrated is Windows Server 2008 SP0, that is right not even Service Pack 1 or 2, and not Windows 2008r2.   Hyper-V converter won't install on anything older than 2008r2....cripes!.  I did get Disk2VHD by SysInternals to work wonderfully. 

I could not get the Hyper-V integration services (which includes things like virtual hardware drivers) to install as that won't install on anything older than server 2008sp2.  Cripes!  I was able to track down a really old copy of the integration tool kit for HyperV 2008r2, which did install on the VM and it took care of some of the hardware, but not all of it.  I still had to use the legacy network card to get connectivity. 

Why not just upgrade this silly VM to Server 2008 sp2 you might ask?  Well.....the app owner is scared of that upgrading might break it and want to test it thoroughly first.  Cripes!