Danny's Space

I use Gnucash for bookeeping and cash management. It is upgraded from 3.5 to 3.6 today.

When I returned from vacation, I did a post summarizing the packages that were upgraded when I was out. I have to clearly spell out that the linux kernel was upgraded from the 5.1 version to the 5.2 version on July 12 2019. Thank you.

The Adidas Ultraboost is the shoe I have been searching for. It is a capable running shoe but also perfectly appropriate for casual wear. This is the Adidas Ultraboost 19.

Every month Arch releases a brand new live media to update their live media. I update my copy of this very important tool for rescuing unbootable systems. To troubleshoot a system that refuses to boot you have to use a live media usually in a usb flash or CD. I have long ago dropped my CD player and so use USB flash to store the ISO. First go to the download page of your favorite distro, I use arch here. Use the torrent magnet link. It's faster. It's about 650 MB download for the ISO. Go get your USB flash. Once the ISO download finishes, change directory to the tar file. You can actually right-click on the file itself and use a GNOME utility called Disks to create a bootable flash usb. Or you can do it the long way: use the dd command: #dd bs=4M if=path/to/iso/archlinux.iso of=/dev/sdX status=progress oflag=sync To find your usb's location or name use the lsblk command. This method uses all the usb space though.

I lost all my video files the last time my sata cables decided to quit. I should have properly backed up the whole thing but it was my fault. I could have fixed the situation by adjusting the connections but I was getting the picture all wrong. I am downloading my top ten films right now. So far I have : Alien (1979) Director's cut. This picture blew my mind when I saw it in theaters alone, maybe the first movie I saw alone. Blade Runner (1982) Another Ridley Scott film. I am a big fan of the director since I was a teen. This is also a salute to Rutger Hauer (1944-2019) who passed away recently. Raiders Of the Lost Ark (1981) Harrison Ford stars in two of three of the films, so far. This is directed by Steven Spielberg. My favorite Spielberg film is Schindler's List (1993). to be continued next post...

There were several updates this month. I thought it is important to say something about these updates before more of them come in this August 2019. Well first the linux kernel is now 5.2.5 Archlinux. LIbreoffice is now 6.2.5-1. Calibre is now 3.46 and counting. Calibre actually updated 4 times this month. That's hectic activity for the developers and maintainers. Gnome-shell is now 3.32.2. A large swat of the journal is "missing". I was on vacation. Give me a break. Oh I was on a break. This post is really a compilation, a summary of this month's activities. So bear with me. I finally did something about this recurrent red message in the journal. I activated the swap directory with mkswap and swapon. It turned out I already have a swap directory when I installed Arch. I also experienced openvpn not connecting to privatevpn. It turned out that when my lvm partitions were lost all the data were lost including the folder containing the ca certificate for the vpn service...