Danny's Space

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.