Mint 11 Boot Splash

I have seen a lot of commenting on the decision to use a black screen as the boot splash on Linux Mint 11. One person summed it up well when they said that that black screen is indicative in many other operating systems as something going wrong and it tends to scare people. Well, that […]

Why I use OSSEC

There are some great reasons to use OSSEC. One of them is you get emails like these I received this morning: Jun 10 09:24:51 pukwudgie sshd[28651]: Failed password for invalid user pureftp from 202.121.49.62 port 45542 ssh2 Jun 10 09:24:48 pukwudgie sshd[28651]: Invalid user pureftp from 202.121.49.62 Jun 10 09:24:29 pukwudgie sshd[28630]: Failed password for […]