Category Archives: Software

Everything related to the non-physical digital world.

Puppet on CentOS 7

To install Puppet on CentOS 7, you can basically follow these instructions. Notes: To permanently switch from WEBrick to Apache, configure systemd like this: Install client agent on RedHat/CentOS

OpenWRT sysupgrade with ExtRoot

Run sysupgrade or upload the new file with LuCI. After the reboot, you will be in the base system (that is, your configuration, but without ExtRoot). Run these commands to get back on track: After this reboot, either everything will be working again (/dev/sda1 mounted to /overlay) or – if there was a new kernel… Read More »

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 »

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On Jelly Bean, using FX with root, I noticed duplicate files in /data/app-asec/, e.g.: It looks like one is obsolete and consuming almost 60MB.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 »