Unzip a bunch of archives into their own directories - Linux

I was able to extract a few hundred zip files into their own directories (based on the zip file's name) with this shell script.

#!/bin/sh
for file in *.zip

do

unzip -d "${file%.zip}" "$file"

done

SMB "no such file or directory" error on RHEL 9 and Fedora 40 (SELNINUX)

While setting up RHEL 9.4 for a file server and I constantly ran into "No such file or directory" errors when trying to browse a samba share. It turns out I needed to set SELINUX to permissive for samba.

The below fixed my SELINUX samba woes.

sudo setsebool -P samba_export_all_rw on

CD-ROM Art - Akumajo Dracula X Chi no Rondo - PC Engine CD-ROM

 I took a low resolution image of Dracula X's disc art and made it better. It was originally made for printing on an Epson et-8550 but should scale to print on any disc printer. Hopefully someone will find this helpful.

libFLAC.so.8 errors with GOG games on Linux

I was getting ready to throw down some Starfleet justice when my crusade was derailed by the absence of libFLAC.so.8 . It seems that the DOSBOX binary GOG includes with their games is missing the libFLAC library. Not only is the library missing but it wants a specific version of it. I'm sporting Fedora 39 on my main box and my version of flac-libs was newer than what GOG's DOSBOX wanted. I found a packaged version that was as close as I could get and from a similar Linux distro. I ended up using flac-libs-1.3.3-12.el9.x86_64.rpm. My line of thought was to extract the libraries and throw them in the lib64 directory of the  installed game. In the end it worked and I was happy. 

I downloaded the correctly versioned RPM package from HERE. Once I had it in my Downloads directory I used rpm2cpio to decompress the rpm file. The command to unarchive the rpm via cpio is 

rpm2cpio flac-libs-1.3.3-12.el9.x86_64.rpm | cpio -idmv

After the deed was done I moved all the files form ./usr/lib64 onto the <game directory>/dosbox/lib/lib64/ directory. Upon completion of this you should be back aboard the NCC-1701 and doing whatever it is a Starfleet Captain does.

slmgr.vbs -upk

slmgr.vbs -ipk W269N-WFGWX-YVC9B-4J6C9-T83GX

slmgr.vbs -skms 216.164.82.46

slmgr.vbs -ato

slmgr.vbs -dlv

Do you need to 'open' a bunch of .dylib files and macOS bitches about it?

On a brisk December morning I was trying to run qemu from a terminal on my Mac mini. When I issued the 'qemu-system-ppc' command macOS threw a shit fit about all 36 .dylib files in the libs directory not being from a recognized developer. I figured I needed to right click and open each one a few times to set them as unblocked. I got about five files into it and was like "e'ff this noise'. I went out on google and found this site. The below command fixed the problem.

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine <file name>

or in my case

xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine *.dylib

Thank you Dave Anderson.

Enable XMOS Audio Codec on Atomic Pi

I've had an Atomic Pi for a while not but only started to mess with it. One of the features it has is a XMOS dedicated audio codec. Unfortunately it does not enable at boot time on Linux. Make the below a shell script and execute it to bring the magic of audio to life. You might have to run the script using sudo. This needs to be done on every reboot.

#!/bin/sh
echo 349 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo low >/sys/class/gpio/gpio349/direction
sleep 1
echo high > /sys/class/gpio/gpio349/direction
echo 332 > /sys/class/gpio/export echo low >/sys/class/gpio/gpio332/direction

If all goes as it's supposed to then you should have audio through the built on speaker out jacks.