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satellite image from NASA typhoon gorio (local name) This typhoon enhanced the monsoon rains over the Philippines. It has been raining everyday since monday and the week is almost finished. The ground is taking the extra precipitation but there are low lying areas already flooded. After mid-week most cities around Metro Manila have had to declare no schools and government services closed except for emergency services.  Mina has the flu maybe due to the weather. It always happens to her every time she comes home. It's either the cold, the flu or tummy ache. Get well sister. The welcome news is that Mother is fine and up cooking her favorite breakfast.  The way I put the title to this post seems to make the occurence rare or even bizarre. It is the monsoon season in Southeast Asia. It is the start of the typhoon season, although if you go back to weather records you can find at least one typhoon visiting us in any month of the year. The previous 5 years are dry years, the dry se...

The Libreoffice blog says there's an update available today for Libreoffice suite. The productivity suite is now ready with version 5.4. It comes with a new standard color palette and solid support for OpenPGP keys signing of documents.

The linux kernel was upgraded from 4.11 to 4.12.3-1 today. This update includes the linux firmware. Also openssl updated to 1.1.0.f-2.

I've been wondering why my RAM usage is increasing over a span of 3 days now. I suspect gnome-shell but a little sleuthing showed me something else. [donato@archdesktop ~]$ ps -A --sort -rss -o comm,pmem | head -n 6 COMMAND %MEM goa-daemon 49.5 gnome-shell 7.9 thunderbird 3.4 chrome 3.2 tracker-extract 2.5 goa-daemon is gnome-online-accounts. I believe gnome is trying to reach my online accounts and a bad Internet connection is making it hard for it to successfully connect. My darn ISP is the culprit. [donato@archdesktop ~]$ killall goa-daemon I have to stop the process. But do I need to restart it manually?? Users or administrators should never need to start this daemon as it will be automatically started by dbus-daemon(1) whenever an application sends a D-Bus message to the org.gnome.OnlineAccounts name on the session bus. From manpage goa-daemon [donato@archdesktop ~]$ ps -A --sort -rss -o comm,pmem | head -n 6 CO...

I got the news from ghacks technology news a few hours ago. I went to check AUR at archlinux.org and it was so. It updated on the 26th, that around 15 hours ago. Google says version 60 is a security and under-the-hood update. It is recommended that you update to the stable version as soon as possible.

The essays they first urged us to write in school was suppose to awaken our interest in writing. I remember writing about summer activities and in the Philippines it's all about the town fiesta or the religious festivals. Sure, fifty year old teachers are suppose to know what interest nine year olds. So we learned to write the topic sentence and the introductory paragraph. They also wanted to see at least 100 words in your two page yellow sheets. Once in a while the school won the sports intramurals and this event boosts essay writing in the classes where most of the time we talked about subject- verb structures. I believe in writing one's personal experience. Nothing was more honest, or more compelling. But then I am a bookworm when I was a kid of nine in the 3rd grade. I got invited to audition in the school choir one afternoon. I said sure. Little did I know, the school choir would win the province wide contest for Rizal Province at the Kapitolyo. We placed ...

I received my rkhunter warning email moments ago. Two in fact, namely, a suspicious shared memory file and and suspicious hidden file. After googling the subjects I'm convinced they are false positives. With a name like /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird it should be obvious that my email program is sharing memory files with other processes for more efficient use of memory. The other one is named /dev/shm/mono.xxxxx: data. The two files I have to check out are /var/log/rkhunter.log, of course, and /etc/rkhunter.conf. In /etc/rkhunter.conf which I opened in vim, I added a line such as: ALLOWIPCPROC=/usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird and ALLOWHIDDENFILE=/dev/shm/mono.* This is to whitelist these file and process. I hope rkhunter won't freak out if it encounters these anymore.

When you're facing a white, blank screen trying to decide what to write, it seemed hopeless and hopeful at the same time. It's like watching a boat with its sails unfurled but there's no wind, yet you wait and then see the tide turning. You have to stop the distractions. Shut the door. Wait until your breathing is regular and your mind relaxed, like your wrists on the table infront of you. I imagine me looking sideways but not hearing anything. The sounds come much later. I see the big mass of color first, the greens. Just the vegetation, moving, not even individual trees, not leaves, just the big green. Then behind it the blue sky, unfocused and floating. Do not concern your brain with the details. Forget the words and the punctuations. But be mindful of the flow, trace the outlines, hear the motions. Sometime these things don't have a name, give it a name. How do you give something a name and still be honest? How do you keep your writing honest? I...

It's not yet clear how but there is data breach in 8track, Dropbox and Tumblr. 8track sent out a security notification to its users regarding this. They recommend password change and security settings review. They promise to inform users of any more findings in the coming hours. 

Downloads and upgrades can go wrong. Files can be corrupted. Your own hard drives can be the culprit. So once in a while it doesn't hurt to check file integrity especially your downloaded packages. #paccheck --sha256 (returns with list of packages and result) If there is a mismatch, you can reinstall the package. edit: You can also use an alternative. #paccheck --list-broken       (returns with a list of packages with mismatches) #pacman -S package1,package2... Recheck with: #paccheck --sha256 package tag: pacman,arch,linux,pacutils,paccheck

I assume that you have downloaded the image / iso file in a folder. Navigate to the folder where the iso is. You have to get the public gpg key for fedora downloads. [ donato@archdesktop Downloads]$ ls builds  debian-live--9.0.0-amd64-gnome  Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-25  Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26 [ donato@archdesktop Downloads]$ cd Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26 [ donato@archdesktop Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26]$ ls Fedora-Workstation-26-1.5-x86_64-CHECKSUM  Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-1.5.iso [ donato@archdesktop Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26]$ gpg --verify Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26-1.5.iso gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: the signature could not be verified. Please remember that the signature file (.sig or .asc) should be the first file given on the command line. [ donato@archdesktop Fedora-Workstation-Live-x86_64-26]$ ls Fedora-Workstation-26-1.5-x86_64-CHECKSUM...

Good to hear. My own experience is very close to this. Ever since Fedora 20, my upgrades have been pain free.

This is a record for its size. This iceberg is going to be floating out there for years.

The Fedora / Red Hat developers made Fedora 26 available for download for all flavors of this operating system. Download page for the torrents.

I bought a wireless pcie or wifi card from Lazada the other week. It's an Ralink pcie card shown below. My general notion in networking is that this card should work in my Arch linux GNOME setup. Well, yes and no. I installed the pcie card to my motherboard. My computer recognized the new hardware. I checked if the proper drivers are installed. $ lspci -k 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 11)     Subsystem: ASUSTeK Computer Inc. Device 859e     Kernel driver in use: r8169     Kernel modules: r8169 04:00.0 PCI bridge: ASMedia Technology Inc. ASM1083/1085 PCIe to PCI Bridge (rev 04) system: Ralink corp. RT3062 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R     Kernel driver05:00.0 Network controller: Ralink corp. RT3062 Wireless 802.11n 2T/2R     Sub in use: rt2800pci  ...

Digital Restriction Management DRM is the piece of code stuck to your digital media and various computerized devices put there by major media corporations to stop you from sharing your files. The music that you bought have it so you can't copy it and play it in your car's music player. The movie DVD that you bought have it so you can't copy it for your mother watching her tv upstairs. But DRM is more than a terrible inconvenience, it is power held by corporations and media companies over our cars, phones, computers and more of our daily lives intersect with DRM if we don't stand up for our rights in the digital world. Support Free Software. Digital devices have software called firmware or drivers. It's a good idea to use free software in our devices to liberate our devices from corporate controls.

The linux kernel just got updated from 4.11.7 to 4.11.9 in my Arch system. systemd also was updated a few days ago to 233.75-3.

I started using Mozilla's Firefox when I was in Windows XP. I hate Internet Explorer 6. I discovered Firefox and it made using Windows XP workable but not for long. I installed Ubuntu 6.10 and it has Firefox as default browser. I've been using Firefox with differing add-ons and plugins. Now my plugins only consist of OpenH264 video codec. Yes I've no use for flash now. My add-ons today are: 1. NoScript         On its default settings it blocks all scripts from running automatically. You can allow the scripts you want in the web page. The more you use it the less work there is to do and eventually it disappears in the background. Scripts are the single most dangerous things on a web page and once you click on a link, noscript is there first to disable them. 2. HTTPS Everywhere         Half the sites in the Internet offer HTTPS in 2017. Major sites have encrypted their...

What is the big deal if North Korea successfully launched an ICBM? North Korean ICBM An Inter-Continental Ballistic missile ICBM, is different from any other missiles because of the range. They reach 5,600 km. If a state have one, they can hit targets far beyond its borders. Furthermore, ICBMs are mostly used to lift nuclear warheads. Once they reach space they launch multiple nuclear warheads which are impossible to counter. The US Air Force has been developing a technology to track and hit ICBMs post launch. If it is true that North Korea successfully launch an ICBM today, then we are entering a new phase in how the world deals with the rogue nation. Only the United States, Russia and China possess ICBMs. Edit: The New York Times reports Pentagon confirms successful launch of North Korean ICBM.

Mina arrived from Houston, Texas around 5 pm in the house. Mom has a fever. I insisted she take tylenol (acetaminophen). By the time Mina arrived she is feeling a lot better. Mom prepared sinigang and lechong kawali. She asked Imee to cook it. Jojo and driver fetched her from NAIA.

Income Expense Profit Chart July 2016 To June 2017 12 Month snapshot from Gnucash

After a month of fighting, the Marawi siege continue to its second month with casualties piling up and civilian misery unabated. Marawi is an 87 square kilometer of 200,000+ inhabitants, not as big as Iligan nor as prosperous, but it is home to the Mindanao State University, primary muslim college in the Philippines and the picturesque Lake Lanao. Lake Lanao in Marawi City Local governments report a total of 180,000+ civilians now evacuated out of the city and are facing bleak conditions in Iligan city and other local points in Mindanao and Visayas. 82 government soldiers are killed in action, while 317 members of the Maute group are dead. 122 civilians are dead, including 60 who died in evacuation centers of disease. Isnilon Hapilon the commander of the Maute group remains at large and appeared prepared to negotiate exchange of captives for his family's safety.

Linux kernel 4.11.6 just updated to linux kernel 4.11.7 in Arch linux. Bugfixes. On the other hand, a new attack on computers worldwide is still ongoing.