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Wondering just how many failed authentication attempts your OSX machine has been getting? Try…
sudo grep “failed to auth” /var/log/secure.log | sed “s/^.*user \(.*\) for.*$/\1/” | sort | uniq -c
…and you’ll see something like…
14 abpusr01-u
1 ben
1 ben-u
2 billy
3 black
2 blow
2 bogdan
3 cosmin
19 cyrus
12 daemon
…
30 mysql
30 nobody
7 patrick
6 postfix
1530 root
…
24 www

2 x 1/3 pound slabs of Angus beef
4 x bacon strips
3 x cheese slices
1 x mayonaise serving
1 x buttered sesame bun
1,420 x calories
~70% x recommended daily calorie intake
2 x recommended daily allowance of saturated fat
0.95 x recommended daily allowance of sodium

Fedora Core 4 (currently at Test 2 release) is the first version of Fedora Linux to include native support for the PowerPC architecture. I’ve just finished installing the PPC version on to an old G4 400 and the process was only slightly more complex than a standard x86 installation.
Points to note:

Disk 1 is not [...]

This morning The Age treats us to yet another pirated software scare campaign, this time on behalf of game developers.
Buying and selling pirated games attracts penalties of between two and five years in prison, and a fine of up to $55,000. Despite the penalties, games are being pirated in Australia at a rate approaching one [...]

Nick at the King’s summer palace outside Stockholm, Sweden.

Nick and Jorun at the King’s summer palace.

Jimmy freezing his arse off near the King’s summer palace.

View of Stockholm over the water.

Mosaic inside the Stockholm town hall.

Watch out for the Swedish police informerkat!

I’ve spent the last couple of days testing the latest Fedora Core 4 release (FC4 test 2) on both x86 and PPC platforms. Overall it seems to be pretty solid for a test release though I have noticed some problems with Winbind continually dropping its Active Directory authentication channel.
Starting with FC3, the Fedora team [...]

Northern Ireland and England edition.

Giants Causeway, County Antrim.

Giants Causeway, County Antrim.

Giants Causeway, County Antrim.

Nationalist mural, Northern Ireland.

Nationalist mural, Northern Ireland.

Old Bailey, London.

The Republic of Ireland edition.

Newgrange burial chamber, County Meath.

Irish sunrise, County Donegal.

Guinness ad, County Kerry.

Pub at the church ahead, County Kerry.

One of the Lakes of Killarney.

Ancient burial site, County Killarney.

Jimmy kissing the Blarney Stone, County Cork.

Still in Greece, this time at Delphi, located 150km north-west of Athens on the slopes of the holy Mount Parnassus. Although well known for its artistic and athletic spectacles, Delphi is most famous for the oracle who held court in the temple of Apollo and dispensed wisdom to those who visited. To the ancient Greeks, [...]

Anyone looking for a car? Izmir, Turkey.

The Parthenon is a known as a Doric peripteral temple, built on a rectangular floor surrounded by a series of low steps and a colonnade of Doric columns. The main temple contains no absolutely straight lines, giving a slightly softer character to what is otherwise a strongly geometric structure.

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