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Windows 10 forced updates is in the news and a senior CNET editor who personally experienced the ordeal is encouraging others to share their experience. I don't use Windows anymore. The last time I used MS Windows Anything was around 2006. I switched to Linux in the desktop back in 2007 and I've been using Linux in servers before that. When I say use I meant exclusively. Not that I am against un-prompted updates, I do have automatic updates turned on in my machines, desktops and servers. In Debian and Ubuntu they call it unattended updates and as it is in the rest of Linux, I can customize which packages are included or excluded. I can blacklist certain packages not to update. It automatically checks for available new versions of packages (software, apps) and I have it configured to download and install them in the background. Yes in the background. It is logged of course and an email sent out to my Gmail account. If something fails to install I am also informed...

What kind of race are we? Are we naturally war-like, violent or peaceful and friendly? The answer would vary, from history and race and geography. Are we a failed race because of our disunity? Or are we denying our nature and impulses for violence? Morgan is a film about a machine-human hybrid produced by a corporate entity for profit to produce a superior soldier. It stars Kate Mara and Anya Taylor-Joy (whose performance in The Witch is also noteworthy) as laboratory produced human hybrids. The interactions of Anya's Morgan character and her scientists-guardians are the films plot driver. There is constant reference to Helsinki which is I guess what happened to another similar effort by the company which failed. Helsinki being a metaphor to civilian scientists losing their detachment from their subject, or Helsinki being a metaphor to hostages shifting their loyalty to their captors. ...

End of January 2017 is coming. Most taxes for the year current has been paid.

Income, Expense and Profit Chart From January 2016 to December 2016 The 2016 story is income goals were not realized. There was vacancy throughout the year.

Life's Edge - green,linear gradient on GIMP

First I got an email telling me of a fail event detected on my RAID device. Then 12 minutes later a second email this time from SMART monitoring complaining that one of my hard drives could not be opened. There is a difference between a failed to open device and a failed device situation. So I verified these situations with the terminal. I verified the SMART monitoring report. #smartctl -a /dev/questionable-device I verified the status of the RAID array. #mdadm --detail /dev/md0 I have a degraded array, one device is removed and faulty. The device is /dev/sdd. This is the 1TB hard drive which is the oldest of the 4 I'm using. I opened the black box. I pulled the SATA cables and examined them for anything out of the ordinary. I put them back again. I opened the terminal to check if I have access to the hard drives. #smartctl -a /dev/all-the-drives I added the faulty drive to the RAID array with: #mdadm --manage --add /dev/md0 /dev/faulty-drive ...

I have to find out if the property tax for the house is ready by Friday. I am sure that the 20th is the deadline for payment. I want to avoid penalties. I will call the Assessor's office today or tomorrow.