Danny's Space

Hi Reese This month I pushed the installation of an airconditioner unit downstairs. I still need another for the upstairs room I'm in. Mom reached 75 this month - a milestone in any view. Tito Rick died of a heat stroke just like Tita Fely did a few years back. We gave Simeon and family notice of termination this month. Mina is going to use R6 unit. I have not received the balance of rent payment from Luigi and Ramon at R3 and R1. I've been very zealous in blogging since the start of 2017. I have 52 posts in 3 months. My shift to Archlinux provided me with a lot of materials. I have photos I haven't uploaded yet or posted yet.

Average expenses monthly of the last 6 months. × ​data from Gnucash expenses monthly  × ​data from schedule of monthly expenses with average of the last 6 months When making decisions whether to increase rent, I rely on the latest monthly expenses data from Gnucash. My primary accounting software is Gnucash. The average monthly expenses is 27,500 - 28,000. I am losing unit R6 to Mina. My gross income will not float above 30,000. I have to increase my rent or find another source of income. 

Hi Reese No news yet on the Property tax and the new number for the "house" part of the property tax/ municipal property tax. They gave a new number and retired the old one but they promised that the estimated value of the property will approximately be the same. No new number yet as of today. The deadline for payment of the property tax is today for the 2017 year. So we are in limbo. April 2017 ushers in a new phase. Simeon is leaving us. We are terminating the contract on R6. Mina will be renovating the house formerly known as R6. I have not implemented a hard rent increase this year 2017. For new tenants I have charged a new higher rent for them. Is there a need? Yes there is a need. If I want to ensure property maintenance and upgrade in the coming years, I have to increase rent. If I want to ensure continuity of operations in the coming years, yes I have to  increase rent. 

It's been a while since I watched "Stranger Than Fiction". I rewatched it for this review. I still have strong feelings about it. About death. About love. When somebody has to die, and do I accept it for all the heroic reasons, am I wrong? I've also just finished watching "Ex Machina". I came out of that Human vs Machine dilemma with this: that if human beings lose its ability to look at another being's existence and say: me first, then we deserve to be left in the dust by our own AI's. Stranger Than Fiction is about Harold Crick (played by Will Ferrell) and how his life is in the hands of a writer played by Emma Thompson. Harold learns that his "creator" is ending his life in the book. It's a brilliant death. Harold accepts his death and tells Karen Eiffel (the writer) it is a good ending to a good book. That's when Karen changed the ending of the book and lets Harold live. Did Harold Crick deserve to be saved? Death will come...

[donato@archdesktop builds]$ git clone https://aur.archlinux.org/google-chrome.git Cloning into 'google-chrome'... remote: Counting objects: 337, done. remote: Compressing objects: 100% (237/237), done. remote: Total 337 (delta 152), reused 269 (delta 100) Receiving objects: 100% (337/337), 79.84 KiB | 35.00 KiB/s, done. Resolving deltas: 100% (152/152), done. [ donato@archdesktop builds]$ ls faenza-icon-theme_1.3  google-chrome  megasync  nautilus-megasync  numix-icon-theme-pack [ donato@archdesktop builds]$ cd google-chrome [ donato@archdesktop google-chrome]$ ls google-chrome.install  google-chrome-stable.sh  PKGBUILD [ donato@archdesktop google-chrome]$ less google-chrome.install [ donato@archdesktop google-chrome]$ less PKGBUILD [ donato@archdesktop google-chrome]$ makepkg -sic ==> Making package: google-chrome 57.0.2987.110-1 (Sun Mar 19 00:13:58 +08 2017) ==> Checking runtime dependencies... ==> Checking ...

I installed reflector as i've said in this post. Now I want to run reflector regularly so that whenever I do a pacman update I can be assured that the mirrors are also updated. Setting this weekly is I think reasonable enough. I want to use systemd to do this. /etc/systemd/system/reflector.service [Unit] Description=Pacman mirrorlist update [Service] Type=oneshot ExecStart=/usr/bin/reflector --verbose --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist Save the file. Start the service. To set this service every week. /etc/systemd/system/reflector.timer [Unit] Description=Run reflector weekly [Timer] OnCalendar=weekly RandomizedDelaySec=12h Persistent=true [Install] WantedBy=timers.target Save the file. Start the timer.

Pacman uses /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist file to get package information and download them from remote servers. Sometimes the file becomes old, some mirrors are out of sync and you might not be using the fastest mirror for your location. Enter Reflector . Reflector retrieves the latest mirrorlist from the Mirror Status Page run filters to sort the list and save it to your /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. You can download reflector. $ pacman -S reflector Then I want to get the latest 5 mirrors which have recently been synchronized and also get the 5 fastest mirrors then save it to my /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist. $ reflector --verbose --latest 5 --sort rate --save /etc/pacman.d/mirrolist