roman-yepishev

Dell OS Recovery Tool Under Linux Mini-HOWTO

Since I was unable to find a specific answer to how can one create a Dell recovery disk from within Linux, I decided to write the steps here.

If you write the CD image directly to the USB drive (or create a new partition and write it there), the laptop will not boot. You need your USB media to be in FAT32 format with the contents of the recovery ISO.

1. Download the recovery ISO from the support section of Dell website.
2. Insert a USB Drive with enough capacity to hold the contents of the ISO image.
3. Format the drive and create a filesystem where $USB_DEVICE is your USB drive (check with fdisk -l, it may be

lelandbatey

Description

This simple script will take a picture of a whiteboard and use parts of the ImageMagick library with sane defaults to clean it up tremendously.

The script is here:

#!/bin/bash
convert "$1" -morphology Convolve DoG:15,100,0 -negate -normalize -blur 0x1 -channel RBG -level 60%,91%,0.1 "$2"

Results

devoncrouse

# Create background noise profile from mp3
/usr/bin/sox noise.mp3 -n noiseprof noise.prof

# Remove noise from mp3 using profile
/usr/bin/sox input.mp3 output.mp3 noisered noise.prof 0.21

# Remove silence from mp3
/usr/bin/sox input.mp3 output.mp3 silence -l 1 0.3 5% -1 2.0 5%

# Remove noise and silence in a single command