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Using HDSentinel in Ubuntu 16.04

If you are still using spinning harddrive, concerned about the health of your harddrive and using Linux/GNU, in particular, Ubuntu 16.04, you are in the right place Running HDSentinel is quite simple in Linux. You need to download the file   Hard Disk Sentinel LINUX (FREE)  from  http://www.hdsentinel.com/download.php After extracting the file into your preferred directory, we export the path which is the directory using the command 'export' : export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/bin . Then, we can preserve the path enviroment to run HDSentinel using administrative sudo command:   sudo -E env "PATH=$PATH" HDSentinel . Alternatively, we may need to edit the sudoers file to include the /path/to/bin using the command:  sudo -E visudo and add /path/to/bin  in the line below Defaults  mail_badpass like this :  Defaults        secure_path="/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/snap/bin : /path/to/bin " The change above in /etc/sudoers is di

KeePass in Firefox on Fedora 25/Ubuntu 16.04: Passwords No Fear

If you are using KeePass on Fedora 25 or Ubuntu 16.04, you are in luck. There may be other addons or applications that may do the same task, KeePass is the used and tested application for storing passwords. Background history: KeePass is built using Xamarin   Do try to use the default theme for Firefox, as there may be interface issue on a 3rd party theme. Addons needed: PassIFox (either), KeeFox (either), KeePass Helper (optional). First, you have to install the either one of the addons in Firefox:  KeeFox, or PassIFox. These are the two available addons to act as a go-between for KeePass and Firefox. Personally, i prefer KeeFox, since it has better support at keefox.org After adding this, we need to install the Mono files (which the application is built on) and extract the pre-built KeePass zip file. To install Mono is a breeze, just go to the official Fedora community website and execute the Quick command. In Ubuntu, use the apt-get command to install the package