Author Archives: Markus Birth

Resize partition

Detect new disk size With virtual machines (VMware at least), you can resize the disk drives without restarting the VM itself. After doing that, you have to get Linux to recognize the new disk drive size. Use one of these (found hereand here) – assuming the modified drive is /dev/sdc: Check the success with fdisk… Read More »

TechniSat DigiCorder

Concat Transport Stream Copy recording from the TSD drive to a FAT32 USB HDD. ⚠️ Target drive needs to support large files >4GB Convert to MKV If avconv aborts because of incomplete frames, use -ss and -t to seek a few seconds into the stream and stop a few seconds before the end. Rip recordings… Read More »

TASSIMO Barcodes 🇩🇪

Im Gegensatz zu anderen Kapselmaschinen, bringen die Kapseln bei Tassimo ihre Zubereitungsanleitung gleich mit: In Form eines Barcodes auf der Kapsel. Kapsel-Codes Kapsel G Menge dezimal binär (ohne Prüfziffer) binär (mit Prüfziffer) Costa Espresso for Capp. & Latte 02209-5 0000 1000 1010 0001 0101 0110 0100 1111 TWINING’s English Breakfast S 195 ml 03287-2 0000… Read More »

SPAZ – Space Pirates and Zombies

Get decompiled savegame Savegames are actually written to disk in a plaintext form and then compiled by the engine. The source file is deleted afterwards. To obtain it under Linux: Compile after modifications To make SPAZ load the modified file, you have to compile it first. SPAZ won’t compile it on its own. But we… Read More »

Tango Messenger

If you text with someone over Tango, you might not know his/her phone number, because he got yours first and started the conversation. But if you are on a rooted Android, that’s no problem. Head to /data/data/com.sgiggle.production/files and find the file call_log.dat. Take a look at it – it should look similar to this: The… Read More »

Becoming root on Android

Rooting means installing a su binary onto the device, which provides a way to become the root (=Superuser, “su”) user on the Android system. root has access to everything and thus you can do really nasty things with it. Preparation Unlock bootloader If not already done, unlock your bootloader. su binary There are currently two… Read More »

Duplicate files in /data/app-asec/ on Android

On Jelly Bean, using FX with root, I noticed duplicate files in /data/app-asec/, e.g.: It looks like one is obsolete and consuming almost 60MB. So I deleted the older ones of the duplicates and also renamed all files to have the suffix -1. After a reboot, some apps were not working. The launcher showed a… Read More »