VPC to the Rescue
So here we are at the NYC .NET User Group last night, and I was about 10 minutes into the presentation, when the screen started flickering. At first, I thought it was the projector, then realized that my video card was failing. After a few flickers, it just died. Right in front of 50 people or so. Luckily, the presentation was configured to run from a virtual drive, using Microsoft Virtual PC. Luckily, attendee (and fellow speaker/MVP kinda person)
Miguel Castro had a laptop with VPC installed, and I just connected my external hard drive to his laptop and went ahead with the presentation. Pretty amazing! Thanks to Miguel for his help, and to VPC for making it possible.