So now the I registered for the Objective by the sea conference in June, there are a couple of preparations to take care off. Objective by the sea is a MacOS security conference by Patrick Wardle. I’ve been a supporter of his work via Patreon for quite some time, but I have never ran any […]
Last weekend I wiped my Macbook Pro 15″ late 2013 and installed Ubuntu 18.04 on it. The install was painless, but there were some tiny bits and pieces missing as to hardware settings and drivers. I was able to fix most issues searching the web, but I thought I summarize it here for future reference […]
My Mac Pro from before 2010 was happily running MacOS Mavericks I think. There were some minor annoyances, but mostly it was working pretty swell. And a couple of years ago the machine dropped from the supported hardware list of newer MacOS releases like Sierra and High Sierra. So no more official software upgrades then. […]
Yesterday my Windows 10 VM I run on my Macbook took forever to install updates. Then at some point my macbook (yes the complete macbook) went blank / off without any warning. As the laptop usually warns of low battery charge, I suspect I hit some kinda bug. This morning when trying to recover, the […]
The install took 50 minutes and two reboots two days ago. All seems fine. Also, did a clean install on another laptop and apparently enabling disk encryption during initial setup has been the default for some time. It was a new one for me. But then I rarely do clean MacOS installs. Mostly upgrades or […]
Looking for alternate or additional protection for my Keepass databases, I stumbled upon a fork of KeepassX that actually has some nice new features. One of those is the ability to use a yubikey as the key or as an additional key to the password database. The fork KeepassXC released a version with yubikey support […]
Some time ago I bought a couple of Yubikeys, but actually start using them ended up on the todo list. But now I can easily unlock and lock my apple laptop with my yubi key. Unlocking is just done using the standard pam module and the configuration described at the yubikey website. But getting my […]
Once every blue moon I try some sort of Linux as the native operating system on my laptop. As I tend to have a recent laptop, this usually ends as a short experiment where I find out one or two devices just will not work. As my wife moved to my previous laptop when I […]
The experience with my MacBook Pro late 2016 have been mostly positive. There is an annoying thing going on with third party apps, including Firefox and KeepassX, crashing. The crashes always report themselves when I unlock my laptop. So I suspect it occurs during sleep or wake of the laptop. It only happens to non-native […]