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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.

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donatoroque turned 9 today!

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A thing of beauty

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Just a Random Image

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c'mon kitty stick your tongue out.

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Yay! donatoroque turned 4 today!

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Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart stars in a romantic comedy between a wealthy workaholic son and the chauffeur's daughter. Why does it take a lifetime to see our mistake? Why is it so hard to own to it? Some people say Bogart is wrong for the role. There was some trouble on-set in fact. Is the presence of Bogart and Holden in one movie, in one scene, just too much? Sabrina, 1954

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We Need To Take Back Our Emails

In light of the Snowden revelations about how government has thrown a very big net over our computing to gather data about us, I've grown interests on tools which can take back our privacy. I focused my efforts at emails. I know that it can be signed and encrypted, yes. To sign emails, I don't mean that snippet of text (signature) below the message body. Signing the email requires you to generate a key pair- a public key and a private key. This key pair is unique and can be used to identify you in the digital world. I am not going to attempt to explain the mathematics of cryptology here, just this. It might be next to impossible to break it. This key pair can also protect the integrity of files, emails and its attachments. Your email client can tell you if the message has been altered or corrupted. You will need an email client. You remember those right? The easiest way to use key pairs is with an email client like Thunderbird, Kmail or Evolution. I use Linux by the way. I am trying this out using both Thunderbird and Evolution. I should tell you that this technology is cross platform. It is available in Windows, Mac OS and Linux. In Linux, the technology, Gnu Privacy Guard, is part of the core component of the operating system. All that is needed is for us to learn the front-ends and how to use our key pair. Next are use cases...

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I know you have to go sometime but after the rain. When the wet and the dry reflect the heavens I breathe. When you take your punishment to set free and to light fires.

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Our Ylang-ylang produce such an odor all over the yard and it's most notable during sunset and early evening when the day starts to cool down. The street urchins who sell them, usually put its flowers to top off a sampaguita garland.

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I did some digging in the old picture books that my sister kept. I asked her to give me the oldest photos so I can scan and save them. I want to rescue them from decay by digitizing these precious ones and to save them in my hard drive. Ultimately, I uploaded them to a cloud service. For the very special ones. I uploaded them to more than one. I think I'm three and a couple of months old here. My dad bought me a bike. I remember this bike when it was rusting in the garage. I was nervous about the whole thing. See how I smiled? My feet can just barely touch the pedals. My father was a race bike fan. I think he had plans for me after this. My birthday is just around the corner. When I see myself in the mirror I tend to break into this smile wondering how my feet got here. My forty-seventh. It's 2014. I wonder if I'm not suppose to last that long. Like the bike.

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donatoroque turned 3 today!

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Sunrise

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Linux Thankfull

Got Back GNOME 3 accounts. That last update from Arch Linux did it. Fixed the bug I mean. Evolution is working now. Hooray!

So much alternatives, lots of option in linux. Freedom to choose.

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I use a GNOME 3 desktop environment on Arch Linux. I use Epiphany which is the default browser for the GNOME desktop. This browser allows me to save a site as an application. Once saved, the site is treated as an application, sandboxed, restricted just like an application. 

  Like I saved my blog here at Posterous as an application, and saved my personal data so I can authenticate on the fly. It's faster and it's convenient, without losing some security elements.

  Of course all that precaustion goes to waste if the website itself doesn't practice good security. remember Lindedin?

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RIP Bob Welch

Fleetwood Mac Member

Sentimental Lady

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Shoulder Surgery Buddies

The Terminator and Judge Dredd needed shoulder surgery.