CrunchBang Linux #! avoid password for sudo

To avoid changing the password for the sudo user on CrunchBang Linux #! the first step is to Enable the #! root account

Once you are logged on as root run the following command :

# visudo

At the bottom of the file enter :

cwishaw    ALL=(ALL:ALL) NOPASSWD: ALL

Note - change 'cwishaw' with your user account.

Save the file and exit. Login again as the user. test sudo and you should be password free. Have fun!

How to enable the default password on #! CrunchBang Linux

I really like #! CrunchBang Linux but one of the things I could not find out initially was what the root password was set to. During installation the root password is set to something random and the recommended approach would be to use sudo. That said I like to have root access!

To enable the root password :

$ sudo passwd root

Type the password twice when prompted. Then change to root :

$ su root

Have fun :)

modern.ie bash: ./IE11.Win8.1.For.LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx: No such file or directory on Linux

While I love using Linux software UI testing in browsers does mean having to sometimes test using IE. I found out that helpfully Microsoft make available for testing only Virtualbox VM's to allow browser testing via the modern.ie site . Great, this is just what i need!  After downloading the VM's the instructions are pretty straight forward but instead of extracting the files I got this :

$ ./IE11.Win8.1.For.LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx

bash: ./IE11.Win8.1.For.LinuxVirtualBox.part1.sfx: No such file or directory

I was using Arch Linux and even though the MD5 sums were fine I downloaded the files again with the same result. I also tried Ubuntu, Crunchbang (#!) Linux with the same result. After a lot of trial and error I worked out that it needs some 32 bit libraries to extract the files correctly!

My solution was to use a 64 bit CentOS 6.x VM and installed :

# yum -y install glibc.i686 libstdc++.i686

Now you can extract the file as normal!

Hope this helps someone as it was a pain for me to work out.