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Instructions to Update the BIOS/UEFI for an HP Laptop on Linux

To update the BIOS/UEFI firmware requires HP-specific files in the EFI System Partition, also referred to as ESP.

On a Linux system, the ESP is typically mounted on /boot/efi or /efi. Whithin you should also find a EFI directory, e.g. /boot/efi/EFI or /efi/EFI. This article assumes that the ESP is mounted on /efi and that the /efi/EFI directory exists. You can replace that with the mount point your system uses.

The HP-specific files are located in /efi/EFI/HP or /efi/EFI/Hewlet-Packard. These files typically come preinstalled in HP Windows PCs. If you have these files you could skip Install HP-specific files.

Relocate an existing libvirtd (KVM) images directory

By default, KVM (libvirtd) images on Ubuntu and most other Linux distributions are found in /var/lib/libvirt/images. This can be inconvenient if you don't have a separate /var partition that can grow over time to accommodate multiple large images.

You can simply rename the images folder to something else and then symlink to a larger space with it (e.g. ln -s /data1/libvirt/images /var/lib/libvirt/images). That's what I used to do.

But that can lead to all sorts of unanticipated trouble. The right way to have your images on a bigger disk is to change the path for libvirt's default storage pool to a partition on that big disk, which is logically where KVM is going to create them.

First check to make sure a default pool exists:

Complete Recent Discord Quest

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This no longer works if you're alone in vc! Somebody else has to join you!

How to use this script:

Accept the quest under User Settings -> Gift Inventory

Chat GPT "DAN" (and other "Jailbreaks")

Host classic ASP in an ASP.NET Core 8 project

I have a situation where I need to migrate a very old classic ASP website gradually into an ASP.NET Core 8 website.

In my research I found many people asking how but never found a fully working example, so I want to share this for others.

If you end up using any of this, my only ask is that you link to this gist and give me some credit in your code for the next developer to discover... and of course tell me about how it saved your life in the gist comments ☺

Solution Summary:

add ISAPI handler in web.config for each file extension to process as classicASP
put classicASP files in wwwroot folder of your aspNetCore project

Sed Cheat Sheet

Sed command line options

sed [options] sed-command [input-file]

Option	Description	Example

	/* ##### float32encoding.js #####
	MIT License

	- Forked 'toFloat' from https://gist.github.com/laerciobernardo/498f7ba1c269208799498ea8805d8c30
	- Forked 'toHex' from stackoverflow answer https://stackoverflow.com/a/47187116/10522253
	- Modifyed by: Jozo132 (https://github.com/Jozo132)

	Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
	a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
	"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including

	/** @format */

	import { Map, TileLayer, Marker, Popup } from "react-leaflet";
	import React, { useEffect, useState, useRef } from "react";
	import { geosearch } from "esri-leaflet-geocoder";
	import "leaflet/dist/leaflet.css";
	import "esri-leaflet-geocoder/dist/esri-leaflet-geocoder.css";
	import L from "leaflet";

	function MapView(props) {

	// made according to typst ieee template and official acm word template

	// --- Draft Formatting

	// Papers will be submitted electronically in PDF format via the web submission form.

	// 1. Submissions may have at most 12 pages of technical content, including all text, figures, tables, etc. Bibliographic references are not included in the 12-page limit.
	// 2. Use A4 or US letter paper size, with all text and figures fitting inside a 178 x 229 mm (7 x 9 in) block centered on the page, using two columns separated by 8 mm (0.33) of whitespace.
	// 3. Use 10-point font (typeface Times Roman, Linux Libertine, etc.) on 12-point (single-spaced) leading.
	// 4. Graphs and figures should be readable when printed in grayscale, without magnification.