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United GNOME GTK theme and Flat-remix icons.

I just got a new AOC Display Monitor. It's a 22 inch 1080p LED IPS monitor from AOC. I saw it online only for 5,101 cash.

United Gnome theme downloaded here. I'm using Arch linux and wanted a fresh look. I looked at this theme and the download includes themes specific to other distros such as Fedora, Ubuntu and Opensuse. After installing this with gnome tweak tool I got a pleasant surprise. I have an Arch linux icon in place of the applications icon overview. Yay!

When President Donald Trump met with NATO leaders, he reminded them they have to shoulder their share of defence costs for Europe. German Chancellor Angela Merkel after a couple of days later made a speech of realization. Merkel now knew that Europe cannot anymore completely depend on the United States for its defence. This is not just about Trump's foreign policy. Americans are increasingly pressured to look inward now that their economy isn't exactly in the pink of health. Employment is getting back what it lost in 2008-2012 depression but a key factor here, that of wages isn't following expectations. In other words jobs are coming back but businesses aren't paying workers enough or aren't that confident yet of its future. It seems like America is just a shell of its former self. Meanwhile, China is rising confidently as the second biggest economy in the world. Flexing its muscle in South America and Africa with economic aid packages for countries in trou...

I have been monitoring systemd with journalctl and gnome-shell has been crashing 3 times a day (somedays more) all day long. The good news is it automatically restarts and goes to the login screen. And that is where I find my computer more often than I want. At least the login screen is dependable.

I previously wrote about the emz file format and Xnviewmp here. But that solution didn't work out. I had to copy and paste the form image to Libreoffice Draw. I then filled the necessary information asked by the sender. I then converted / exported as pdf. I composed my email reply and attached the file pdf. Neat and straight.

Meralco, my utilities company emailed a form attachment in a format I've not encountered before. It's in emz file format. emz is a compressed image file. It's a proprietary format from Microsoft. I had to look for an appropriate application to open this file. Happily I found Xnviewmp . It's available in the Arch User Repository here . So Installing Xnviewmp is just: [donato@archdesktop builds]$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/xnviewmp-system-libs.git Cloning into 'xnviewmp-system-libs'... remote: Counting objects: 26, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (21/21), done. remote: Total 26 (delta 10), reused 16 (delta 4) Unpacking objects: 100% (26/26), done. [donato@archdesktop xnviewmp]$ makepkg -sic ==> Making package: xnviewmp 0.86-1 (Fri May 26 20:28:46 +08 2017) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking buildtime dependencies... ...

It is slow. It is prone to crashing. It is frozen like this, and you can't exit. I use the killall command in the Terminal. 

Playgrounds is a repost from the article at Early Childhood Education Zone website. A community's health is mirrorred in how beautiful their playgrounds and parks are.

I updated my computer to the linux-4.11.2 as it becomes available in the repositories. In my opinion it is a good idea to always update to the latest available stable kernel. Along with the kernel, linux-firmware updates were also available. Again, any new updates to hardware drivers are welcome.

What do you do if your linux kernel upgrade did not go well? What if after an upgrade which includes the kernel, you can't boot your system? You should downgrade to an older, working linux kernel still in the cache. Using a fairly recent Arch linux install medium, you can mount the root partition to /mnt. Then chroot into the system. $ arch-chroot /mnt /bin/bash It is assumed you keep at least one other version of the linux kernel in the cache. You can check in /var/cache/pacman/pkg. At least downgrade linux, linux-header and any kernel module you have. To downgrade: $ pacman -U linux-x.xx.xx-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz  linux-headers-x.xx.xx-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz Exit by typing exit. Reboot. You should be able to boot now.

    Pornography is the last track in The Cure's Pornography album. The album itself was released May 1982. It featured electronic sounds and a claustrophobic mood throughout. It's the fourth album of the group and the most potent song in their body of work. Pornography,n. obscene pictures, writings, drawings, motion pictures,  videos, or the like intended primarily to cause sexual  arousal and having little or no artistic merit. From the Collaborative International Dictionary of English A hand in my mouth A life spills into the flowers We all look so perfect As we all fall down "What the world around us thought of as pornographic, we didn't. People's bodies aren't pornographic. What was pornographic, to us, was the way that people treated each other and how political systems destroyed people and that kind of intolerance. That's what we were trying to get across."  - Lol ...

If you are using Intel chipsets and processors, you have to update your drivers. This is how to set that up easily in Arch linux. Use the package manager to download intel-ucode. $ pacman -S intel-ucode                         ## this will be downloaded from community repositories and get updates automatically if there's a new version To set this up automatically and you don't have a custom kernel (if you have one, then YOU should know how to set this up) run grub-mkconfig. $ grub-mkconfig This will edit your grub.cfg file and add a line for the intel-ucode.img file. After running it you can check the grub config file with: $ sudo less /boot/grub/grub.cfg                 ## you should scroll down and look for instances of this line up to the ...

Hearing the word impeachment seriously in an entertainment show will perk up concerned people anytime. Impeachment calls somebody to account and when addressed to the most powerful man in the world, everybody wants to listen. Last week, beginning with the testimony of Sally Yates, the former assistant attorney general, and definitely not ending with the firing of FBI director James Comey, Donald Trump's days took a decidedly downward turn. James Comey had been investigating Trump since the US elections of 2016 for his campaign staffs' connection to the Russians. Sally Yates was apparently fired because she was looking into Trump's National Security Adviser's connection to foreign influences. Both were just doing their jobs. Today, the assistant attorney general appointed Robert Mueller as special prosecutor to investigate the Trump-Russian scandal. President Trump has a formidable challenge in the person of Robert Mueller, a former FBI director and a ...

Wcry Ransomware infected around 300,000 computers all over the world. Blame is going round and around. The vulnerability or bug taken advantage of by the hackers of this malware has a patch. Microsoft provided the patch last March to users. Not all Windows machines updated and those that forego the update got screwed. Some compared them to the anti-vaccines people. Microsoft pointed its fingers to countrys who are stockpiling bugs like this in order to weaponize them. Much like the dreaded viral diseases and keeping the weak samples in a vault just in case they need to produce vaccines for them. The NSA is preparing for that scenario when nation-states would use them to wage war. Wcry was stolen. It was stolen by criminals. Now criminals have a weapon of mass destruction. When everything our civilization does depends on computers, this situation sucks. Aaand it's just starting.

Ever since Damien Zammit revealed Intel's Active Management Engine, a self-contained microcontroller, there have been calls for declaring this for what it is - a backdoor to your computer. AME or ME (Management Engine) is a microcontroller, a fully independent CPU apart from the main CPU you know and control. It cannot be disabled. It is active even if your computer is in hibernation or turned off (as long as it's connected to the main outlet). It is placed there to help IT enterprise to manage computers remotely. This is a problem with the enterprise and this is Intel's solution. Some points to remember about Intel's Management Engine: It has full access to your computer's memory and everything it is connected to by TCP/IP; it can control memory and all peripherals. It can send and receive network signals even if the computer is turned off or throu...

The first worrying thing about Wcry worm is when it attacked health care facilities in the U.K. They had to wave off patients and direct them to another hospital. Then an ISP in Spain was attacked too. It encrypts and locks your data and demands payment before it decrypts it. Wcry attacks a vulnerability in Windows known to the NSA who deliberately kept it a secret. Wcry was stopped dead by a happy accident. A malware researcher who was analysing the attack found a subroutine that HTTP's to an unregistered domain. He registered that domain to a prepared sinkhole. So the researcher already has prepared infrastructure to trap malware like this. The subroutine exits once it gets a registered domain, basically a killswitch.

If you are using any Opensuse services, it's time to change passwords and head to their website to get some clarification. If you are a member of Opensuse forums and or wiki, it is wise to change your password and check the safety of your account with opensuse.

When I started using linux or GNU/Linux, and coming from Windows XP, I encountered challenges including websites that don't support free-software browsers. I struggled at finding ways to enjoy media contents using free open software. As Mahatma Gandhi said: First they laugh at you, then they ignore you. Then finally they fight you, and then you win. Today, Microsoft's Windows 10 opens its Windows Store to three Linux distros namely, Ubuntu , Opensuse and Fedora . Last year the bash shell made its appearance in Windows. Now, these three linux distros could be used by Windows users in VM. Windows 10 users could play with them, download apps with them, use free software with them inside the Windows operating system. This is not just for software developers. System administrators can check their servers while still in their Windows laptops.

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I'm using my tablet to compose my post. The keyboard is the default in android 6. I have Google chrome open to the new post page of WordPress. I'm using two thumbs and making sure that I click not press otherwise I'm typing upper case. Summer has peaked here in the Philippines. Or maybe I wish it has peaked. It was 35 C last week. Yesterday it was 34 C. In some places it's already raining cats and dogs with flash flooding. I purchased a brand new air conditioner the other day for Mina's place. I had one installed at mom's room this year. I am now in my smartphone. I opened the WordPress app and seamlessly continue to edit this post. How cool is it to be in the cloud? And jumping from one device to another working on a single document.  If it's raining under your cloud would you consider hanging under mine?

I keep two email applications - Evolution and Thunderbird. I use GNOME so Evolution comes as default email application. I want to use it but in practice this software is just too slow and simply freezes / crashes when Internet connection is off even temporarily. When it does freeze it's not easy to close or shut down. There's just so many user issues with it. So I install Thunderbird. It comes with all the features that equal Evolution and it's fast. Fast enough. Plus it integrates encryption and signing with gpg.

I've been asked for the specs on the machine I use. I've been using my computer since 2014. It's a relatively old machine. I have a 4th generation Intel i5 processor. I have 16 GB of DDR3 RAM. I use an ASUS Z97 motherboard. I use a 240 GB SSD for storage. But I also have a 3 2TB Seagate hard disk set up for a RAID 5 to house my data. It's old but performance is fast and storage is big. It's a very nice machine for media, media storage and if I decide to replace this, it will be a very good server for the home.

Hi Reese I am including my zoho email and Outlook / MS live email account in Evolution Mail. I don't want to neglect checking my secondary email accounts. I want to put them in one basket so I don't miss the outliers. So far the download of my emails are proceeding but in a very slow manner.

If you're trying to build a home server like I was, consider installing Debian in your machine. https://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst The current release is Jessie 8.7. I linked the image above to the download page. This linux distribution supports the widest range of processor architecture out there. Since most servers I know use older hardware, this distro is very much in the list for me. I highly recommend it in the server. I hesitate to recommend it in desktops because of its free (libre) software policy. This and package versions could become quite dated. But for system administrators its stability and slow paced development lends itself to a server.

Hi Reese I updated my password for BDO Online Banking a couple of days ago. But it didn't go well. I left it at that. But today I pushed on.  I updated the password using the desktop browser in the secure website. It went well. Then I tried using the mobile app. It wont let me log in with a funny error message. So I decided I should reinstall the app. Using the Play Store app I learned that there's a new version so I updated the app first. The app is working afterwards. The old app should have been more helpful here. You know, just tell me to update my app.