Monthly Archives: December 2015

Running Linux on a MacBook

Posted on 2015-12-13 by Uli

For a while I had been contemplating replacing my 2008 Macbook (4,1) as it was stuck on OSX 10.6. But I couldn’t find any new affordable laptop that took my fancy (too expensive, too big, too small, just not right). … Continue reading →

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User names in failed login attempts

Posted on 2015-12-06 by Uli

Between 6 December and 22 November 2015 there were 2068 failed attempts to login into my machine exposed on the interwebs. I excluded the the ones due to me being unable to type my super-safe password correctly. This equates to … Continue reading →