It seems unbelievable that it's been a year since my last post here, hello everyone, by the way. I'm not very active on social networks, except on Twitter, I really learn a lot from other people there or Discord where you can find me and chat with me inside the #pikiss-support channel.

Many distributions prepared to play emulators, come by default with the secondary partition in EXT4 to store settings, BIOS and ROMs. For those of us who usually work with macOS and/or Windows, it would be better if this partition came in extFAT to be able to mount in you non Linux OS and transfer files comfortably from the Explorer/Finder, so that is what I have proposed today. It's not a big deal, let's go.

Lately I've been doing mini posts about problems that I stuck on a daily basis. I have some of them pretty dense that I don't finish, I hope to get the time and publish them to get rid of my backlog.

Just a quick reminder, If you need the best ratio with different file compression software:

# 7z
7z a -t7z -m0=lzma -mx=9 -mfb=64 -md=32m -ms=on file_compressed.7z file_input
# tar.gz
env GZIP=-9 tar cvzf file_compressed.tar.gz file_input
# zip
zip -9 file_compressed.zip file_input
# rar
rar a -idq -r -y -m5 file_compressed.rar file_input
# Gzip
gzip -9 file_input

Just a quick reminder. I Recently deleted XCode for getting some free space disk (30Gb!), and suddenly I get the message above. brew install git did not the trick. I use Git a lot, don't fuck me, Apple. All posts around the web say I must to install XCode. I don't want to do it. You only need the command line tools. So finally I found the command that saves my day:

Sometimes it can be tedious to enter certain data in the command line, especially if you have to repeat it several times.

Imagine ftp command line authentication. We can make use of the expect command...

I know. Sorry for the long delay in updates. Been extremely busy with my job developing mobile apps and other stuff.

I came here just for write a notes about install Bash 4 to get some interesting feature from this Shell.

Quick tip to extract subtitles from mp4 with the tool MP4Box available on OSX/Linux

. In OSX, we use brew to install MP4Box.

If you have two operating systems installed on your OSX is quite annoying that you automatically mount those two partitions. Running this simple line you will prevent mount the partition that you do not use.

There is a recent Git security update that you MUST to install. In the case of OSX, I realized I was using a fairly primitive version, so I will use brew to install this new version and get rid of the old.