Encrypting Linux’s home directory is usually the first thing people worried about their personal data do. However, this approach comes at the cost of: (i) slower booting, (ii) problems when rebooting remotely and ssh-ing the machine straightway (more about this in the post), and (iii) the necessity to place all sensitive information in the home directory. In this post I will show another way to keep sensitive information encrypted, which – in my view -, is simpler and more secure.
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Loading iTunes library from command line
Having separated iTunes libraries for different setups (e.g., media center, local music, remote playlists) is a powerful way to organize your media library and share resources among different devices (e.g., iPhone synchronization), but it can be painful. While it is possible to load a different iTunes library by opening iTunes and pressing “Alt” at the same time, this is not optimal. Ideally, we would write a script to pass iTunes the library it should load at launch time (e.g., open /Applications/iTunes.app –load-library=$LIBRARY_PATH). However, to the best of my knowledge, the iTunes API does not expose this – which I honestly do not understand. Googling for a workaround I could not find a good/complete solution, so I made my own. Here you have the setup and the scripts that implement it.
Android Developer Tools – Fastboot
Fastboot is a protocol used to update the flash filesystem in Android devices from a host via USB. It is part of the Android Debug Bridge library (adb). The materialization of this protocol is the fastboot command, which we can make use of, to easily interface with the protocol. Since it is part of the adb library, before using it, we need to install the Android SDK and configure our environment to work from the command line. This post, will guide you through this process.
My Cellar Door 