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Quick post on fixing the EFI shell issue for booting Ubuntu on VirtualBox with the "Enable EFI" option selected. Credits to Mostafa Ahangarha over on https://askubuntu.com/questions/566315/virtualbox-boots-only-in-uefi-interactive-shell for the original answer. From the EFI shell after installing Ubuntu, type the following to boot: Shell> FS0:\EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi After booting into Ubuntu, create or modify file /boot/efi/startup.nsh and add the following line: FS0:\EFI\ubuntu\grubx64.efi Save and close the file. Tested to work on Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS.

Three useful Windows commands: 1) Getting MD5/SHA hash of a file I've always envied Linux users for having built-in  md5sum command but now there is a command in Windows PowerShell that does the same function! > Get-FileHash -Path C:\Users\YourName\Downloads\some.iso -Algorithm MD5 Algorithm Hash Path --------- ---- ---- MD5 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ123456 C:\Users\YourName\Downloa... 2) Getting license key of upgraded Windows installation With Windows moving towards digital license, here's how to find out what's the license key on your working computer in case you ever decide to reinstall. > wmic path softwarelicensingservice get OA3xOriginalProductKey OA3xOriginalProductKey ABCDE-FGHIJ-KLMNO-P1234-56789 3) Download files over http/https using PowerShell Have a URL that points to a file that you'll like to download but your browser stupidly insists on rendering it in ...