Danny's Space

There's so much to learn reading product reviews before you purchase anything online. This is only possible because after purchasing a responsible buyer should make time warning other consumers about the product he bought. I am in the market for storage devices. I'm looking for a 2 TB internal hard drive plus SATA and power cables. I'm looking for some discounts and I found one. One reviewer who sounds like he tested the hard drive and found the device age. This supposed brand new hard drive has 1,800 days of power on in its logs. Recently manufactured hard drives are SMART capable. SMART makes it possible for each device to monitor itself, log how many times it's powered on, how many days (sometimes hours) it's been used. I have a SSD that's receiving (and sending) data to its manufacturer / vendor. The vendor even runs tests on the SSD from time to time. So all these data and logs are saved in SMART data. We should be making time and filling out that product r...

Twitter user (@topherolson) Chris Olson noticed that in a photo of Mark Zuckerberg (@finkd) the laptop's camera is covered with tape and the headphone jack is also taped. Hey, Edward Snowden also advised such a move maybe a couple of years back. I use a stand alone webcam with built in cover and I make sure it is closed always. I don't know about the built in mic though. It's not perfect. -- Donato Roque @Ubuntu-16.04.1 mobile#63-9185721710 I'm on twitter , facebook and Blogger. Consider using my PGP keys for privacy.

Most of the time I just leave the defaults on when it comes to the operating system. Ubuntu has unity at least the stock Ubuntu. When it first came out Ubuntu has auto-hide on by default but they changed it to Fixed due to user feedback. I am still caught in the middle on the issue. On the one hand I like that I own more screen real estate if the auto-hide is on. -- Donato Roque mobile#63-9185721710 I'm on twitter , facebook and on Blogger. Consider using my PGP keys for privacy.

I installed Fedora 23 alongside Ubuntu 16.04 on a dual boot configuration. Everything went fine until I reboot. I encounter this after the bios.                          can't find 'linux'                          can't find 'initrd'                          press any key to continue... Any option I choose, whichever operating system I click on it shows this text. So I have to fix my GRUB. I tried to use my live CD of Ubuntu but my bios won't let me boot into it. So I pressed the DEL key to get into the ASUS motherboard bios set up. The good news is ASUS motherboards have never let me down. I'm on the bios set up trying to f...

I finally found the time and courage to install Fedora back.    I have two problems to solve. If I can't find my answer It won't happen. No Fedora. I have to find a way to mount an existing raid array (made up of 2 devices) properly. The new Fedora installation must detect the array and correctly mount them at boot. There is always something that messes up GRUB when I modify the fstab file. I have to isolate that and correct it.  Secondly, I have to find a way to share my media files to the wifi network, specifically, my android smartphone. If I can't share it there forget about the iphone.  I'm downloading the updates. I just got the news that Fedora 24 is delayed until June 21st. I think my timing is fine. I will be fine by the time the new release is ready.

First, I installed Samba (and a bunch of dependencies) and followed the usual configurations to enable shares. It turns out that Ubuntu has a GUI tool for this, in Nautilus itself. So people like me can just right-click a folder. If you don't have the necessary package for sharing files over LAN, Ubuntu will give you a prompt. Nice of them. I checked my router configuration. I have UPnP and File Sharing ticked. These same configuration worked before with Fedora 23. I checked my smartphone with Android 5 but my shares aren't showing up in File browser even after a refresh or a scan of the network. Nope.