Eddie's Tech Notes

The trick is to disable the "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service" service. For those who don't know how to disable the service, here is one way: Open Control Panel -> System and Security -> Administrative Tools -> Services. There, look for the service called "Touch Keyboard and Handwriting Panel Service". Right click on it and select "stop" to stop the service. You may also ban the service from automatically starting there. Note that you need to disable the service before starting steam. Reference

Follow the instruction here in general. Then download the following drivers from the ASUS support page . For the Nvidia graphics card to work, install the V9.18.13.1193 version of the Nvidia driver under Windows 8, VGA. You may need a few reboot to finally get the driver working. For Direct X to be fully functional, follow the instruction here to install missing .dlls. For Xbox 360 controller: Use the Windows 7 driver available here . Indeed I can't get the controller in any steam games however. I use xb360ce as a workaround. For the radio control driver, use ATK4001 . Bluetooth is not supported on Windows server 2012.

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras sudo apt-get install libdvdread4 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-ffmpeg sudo apt-get install w64codecs sudo apt-get update Reference

Resouces the instruction that I am following GPartd tutorial My notes on the steps Step A: Format the USB stick as required. Boot GPartd. Select the USB stick. If there is a key icon next to any partitions of the stick, unmount the USB stick from either the Linux system or GPartd. Select Partition, then Create new partition. Use the default DOS-favor of partition table. Create the first FAT32 partition of size 1-2GB, with label usb-live at the front. Confirm and make the change before you can right click, select "Manage flag" and make it bootable. Use the remaining space to create a extended partition. From within create the ext4 partition with label usb-installed, and then linux-swap. Note the order is important. The ext4 partition will then move to partition 6 rather than partition 5 if you reverse the order. Step B Straightforward Step C Make sure you detach all the other disks of your PC before booting using the USB. If you come across error when usi...

Convert format: VBoxManage clonehd source.vdi target.vmdk --format VMDK Resize vdi: VBoxManage modifyhd YOUR_HARD_DISK.vdi --resize SIZE_IN_MB   Set harddisk uuid: vboxmanage internalcommands sethduuid "Windows 8.1 Pro.vdi" f8acb710-46c9-4d77-b7d3-52a1845d06c7

Open VirtualBox and identify the name of the virtual machine that you want to work on. Go to the VirtualBox executable page (In Windows, it is usually C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox). Run the following command to stop the VM to sync its clock with the host. VBoxManage setextradata "My Virtual Machine" "VBoxInternal/Devices/VMMDev/0/Config/GetHostTimeDisabled" 1 Use the following command to set the time offset between the host and the guest. A positive value will set the time of the virtual machine ahead of the host. BoxManage modifyvm "VM name" --biossystemtimeoffset Reference

The Linux utility adds boot capability on devices not supported by BIOS. Download location: https://www.plop.at/en/bootmanager/download.html Reference