Turned out to be quite easy, as long as you have a firmware <3.55 to start with. It is also recommended that the PS3 doesn't have access to the Internet. Download the original 3.55 firmware from a trusted source Copy it on a USB stick formatted in FAT32 under a folder tree called PS3/UPDATE Start […]
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Extract audio from a DVD
Extract audio tracks out of a video DVD appeared to be a one liner in Ubuntu. Command line power! for i in {01..11}; do mplayer -vc null -vo null -ao pcm:fast -ao pcm:file=output$i.wav -chapter $i-$i DVD://01; done The previous example extracts audio from chapters 1 to 11 and store them is wav files […]
Clean up Linux history
Login history: sudo -i echo > / var / log / wtmp echo > / var / log / btmp Terminal command history: history -c or echo > ~ /. bash_history source
Windows 7 Service Pack 1 Installation fails
It looks like Windows engineers forgot that other OS can coexist with the beast. As a result, the SP1 installation can fail (error code 0x800F0A12) if the Windows partition is not marked as active. Here is a soft fix: search Disk Management and run it. Find any partition which has 'system' flag, […]