Danny's Space

Crowd waiting for the Good Friday procession. March 2018 Philippines

GNOME 3.28 was released a few days back by its developers. I am using Arch Linux and I don't have Testing in Pacman active. I wait for the Gnome packages to be released to the regular (main, extra, community) channels. I am hoping that show-stopping bugs are caught in Testing so users like me don't have to deal with them.  Release of GNOME 3.28 packages come with it the possibility of collisions. When updating a big number of packages you expect these things to happen. My 'checkupdates' returned 151 packages ready for upgrades including the linux kernel, gcc and major apps for the GNOME group. It's a total of 480 MB of downloads. The GNOME 3.28 Release Notes are here. You can star files and directories for easier access in the file browser also called nautilus/Files. You can also do this with your contacts, Favorite them,  so they appear to be pinned on top of your contact list.  You can also try the improved look of the Gnome default font, Cantarell....

Archlinux updated firefox and systemd today. To get the updates, use pacman: # pacman -Syu

I found a very nice program to run and check if my computer is vulnerable to Spectre and Meltdown. It is now March 2018. Two months after the initial reports of the vulnerabilities against computer processors, what is the state of security with regard to these two vulnerabilities? Thank you to this script by Stephen Lesimple . The link is a git clone link. It will download everything in its directory. Inspect the script before running it as root. There are no options. It will check your system against 3 CVE's made for the "speculative execution" vulnerability. This is my output. Spectre and Meltdown mitigation detection tool v0.35 Checking for vulnerabilities on current system Kernel is Linux 4.15.5-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Feb 22 22:15:20 UTC 2018 x86_64 CPU is Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4590 CPU @ 3.30GHz Hardware check * Hardware support (CPU microcode) for mitigation techniques   * Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS)     * SPEC_CTRL MSR is available:...

undated photo scan of Nuestra Senora de Aranzazu church San Mateo, Rizal, Philippines

I put together my desktop three years and two months ago. It's an ASUS Z97 mobo paired with a 4th generation i5-4590 cpu. I am glad to go for a 16 GB RAM because I'm still smiling at how fast this machine is now after using it everyday all this time. Yes I've purchased hard disks and replaced old ones but I'm still using the original solid-state drive. It's a Crucial 240 GB SSD. The whole package cost 37,000 in 2014. I am still using my ASUS Zenphone ZE551ML. I got this smartphone in 2014. It has intel atom quad cores and a 4 GB RAM. It has android. I had to replace my monitor last year. I am now using an AOC 22 inch IPS monitor with a Full HD resolution. I stopped using RAID and gained back storage space. I am enjoying a total of 10 TB in pooled storage after using logical volume management to put together 5 disks. 2 of the 5 are 3 TB disks and the rest are 2 TB disks. The mix is dictated by cost. The cost effective disk is still the 3 TB capacity. I am trying to g...

I just ran my weekly Arch update with $ pacman -Syu I updated my linux kernel from 4.14.15.x to 4.15.2.x. Libreoffice is now running version 6. systemd updated from 236 to 237. Pacman replaced the following packagaes with the ones in extra/repos. [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed xineramaproto (1.2.1-3) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed xf86vidmodeproto (2.3.1-3) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed videoproto (2.3.3-1) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed scrnsaverproto (1.2.2-2) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed renderproto (0.11.1-3) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed recordproto (1.14.2-2) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed randrproto (1.5.0-1) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed kbproto (1.0.7-1) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed inputproto (2.3.2-1) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed fontsproto (2.1.3-2) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed damageproto (1.2.1-3) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed compositeproto (0.4.2-3) [2018-02-12 13:24] [ALPM] removed fixesproto (5.0+9+g4292ec1-1) [2018-0...