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Updating HP elite 8200 bios without Windows

Quick dump of notes showing how to use Linux for creating bootable freedos usb stick with required files to upgrade HP elite 8200 bios.

Gaining root shell on Huawei B593 4G LTE router

Huawei B593 has "few" security issues. If you want to play around here's some tips.

NTFS undelete on Linux

To avoid damaging filesystem with files to be undeleted I created image of entire hard disk by booting live linux on source PC from USB and then making 1:1 copy of HDD with dd.

Fixing non-bootable CentOS 5 after VMware converter P2V

Did P2V for old CentOS 5.5 i686 install and it failed to boot. Recreating initrd helped. Also see thread on VMware support forums .

Disappearing show desktop button on Windows quicklaunch

There's bug in some Microsoft hotfixes that causes show desktop button to disappear from Win XP / Win 2003 quicklaunch bar. Run " regsvr32 /n /i:U shell32 " and logoff+logon to get it back.

Handbrake auto-crop and channel logos

Same as old post except with updated patch for fresh Handbrake SVN version. Handbrake does good job auto-cropping black bars from source and calculating resulting aspect ratio. However if you're encoding digital TV recordings it's common to have channel logo on otherwise black portion of image.

Smartmontools 6.1 on Ubuntu 12.04

Please see updated version:  http://blog.asiantuntijakaveri.fi/2015/07/smartmontools-v64-and-ubuntu-1204.html