Using Hyper-V on Windows 8 Pro to launch Win XP designed for Windows 7 XPM

Description:
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/install-and-use-windows-xp-mode-in-windows-7


Download:
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=8002



Here's how,
1) Using 7zip open archive "WindowsXPMode_en-us.exe"
2) continue Open Archive as "sources/xpm"
3) Retrieve "VirtualXPVHD" file to your designated folder
4) Rename "VirtualXPVHD" to "VirtualXPVHD.vhd"
5) Using Hyper-V and set as shown below

6) Ta-Dah, you are running XP on Windows 8!!!


7) Setup network,
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprovirt/thread/5018bfae-09da-4b59-8345-842b496ef778/

8) reset timer
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprovirt/thread/5018bfae-09da-4b59-8345-842b496ef778/

for facebook videos

Cool guide found on wikihow
http://www.wikihow.com/Download-Facebook-Videos-Free

there you go
http://www.downvids.net/

Windows 8 factory reset notebook model Acer V3-571G

On the Login Screen hold shift and move click on shutdown icon. Select 'restart'.
After reboot will be prompted a menu, now you may navigate : troubleshoot > Advanced option >  Reset PC

Please note, doing reset will lose all data.

Microsoft File Checksum Integrity Verifier ( MD5 or SHA1 )

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=11533

Windows Tools

got myself some free tools to use

Folder size,
http://www.mindgems.com/


Clean temp folder,
http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

JRuby Platform detection

p/s: This is by no means my work, i take no credit, however this post serves as memory bank as i am a goldfish.I thank the owner for sharing on the web.


useful excerpt for my case:
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2. Platform detection. I've seen this question lots of times. Since in JRuby, RUBY_PLATFORM constant is always "java",  users are unclear how to detect the underlying platform. It is pretty straghtforward with rbconfig module, JRuby fully supports it:
   require 'rbconfig'
   Config::CONFIG['host_os'] # returns mswin32 on Windows, for example

There is plenty of additional info in Config::CONFIG, just print it out to see.
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Links:
http://ruby.dzone.com/articles/10-hot-tips-jruby

Serial Communication on Linux

killall -9 xxd
stty -F /dev/ttyUSB$1 raw -echo -iexten
echo "W: "c0
echo -ne "\x"c0 > /dev/ttyUSB$1
xxd -c1 -l2 < /dev/ttyUSB$1