Monday, July 25, 2011

chroot into LUKS encrypted drive

# cryptsetup luksOpen /dev/sdx2 slackluks

# vgscan --mknodes

# vgchange -ay

# lvscan

# mount /dev/foo /foo

# mount -o bind /proc /mnt

# mount -o bind /dev /mnt

# mount -o bind /sys /mnt

# mount -o bind /boot /mnt

(mount /boot if on a different HDD if messing with kernel issues etc...)

# mount /dev/foo /mnt

# chroot /mnt /bin/bash

Tuesday, February 22, 2011

Spotify

Installation

Download the windows installer off the spotify website

cd to your download directory

% WINEPREFIX=/foo/spotify wine /foo/Spotify\ Installer.exe

% emacs ~/spotify.sh
-----------------v---CUT---v------------------------
!/bin/sh

wine /foo/spotify/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/Spotify/spotify.exe

-----------------^---CUT---^------------------------

% chmod +x spotify.sh

We now want to make sure local mp3 files will play:

% su
# wget http://blog.mrfjo.org/winemp3.acm.so -O /usr/lib/wine/winemp3.acm.so

This will grab an MP3 decoder that actually works and overwrite the other one. If you do not want it to overwrite, then first rename the file:

# mv /usr/lib/wine/winemp3.acm.so /usr/lib/wine/winemp3.acm.so.old

# exit

to start spotify you have two options, command line:

% ./spotify.sh &

or you can do what I did and create a quicklaunch and place it in your dock or wherever you want it. I will not go over this since every WM is different. Consult your WM on how to do this. (KDE, XFCE, FLUXBOX...)

Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Blackberry

I use a program called Barry, it has a lot of dependencies, but it works.

After compiling/installing Barry, to get it working, (the udev rules never worked for me)
Log in as root: lsusb
chmod a+rwx /dev/bus/usb//
Now Barry and all its tools will work

*** NOTE ***

you can only use one tool at a time or you will get a connection error