User Interface Hall of Shame

I’m taking MIT’s 6.831: User Interface Design and Implementation through their free OpenCourseWare website. One of the homework assignments is to find two examples each for the “UI...

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Syndicated 2012-02-22 15:06:11 from The Daily Build

Maintaining “Privacy” Under the New Google Privacy Policy

I put “privacy” in quotes, because under the scheme below you’re still giving up a lot of data, but you can (I think) still maintain “silos” of data so that, for...

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Syndicated 2012-02-03 02:59:01 from The Daily Build

Turning Photos to a DVD Slideshow

The task: take a bunch of photos from my digital camera and burn them to a DVD that would play the photos as a slideshow in any DVD player. (Actually, the task was to figure out how to do this in the...

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Syndicated 2012-01-24 15:36:00 from The Daily Build

Tightening UFW Firewall Rules to Limit SSH Access

The auth.log on one of my servers (really, on all of the servers I have access to) is full of stuff like this: Dec 8 03:19:33 localhost sshd[4718]: User root from 10.1.2.3 not allowed [...] Dec 8...

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Syndicated 2011-12-08 23:54:21 from The Daily Build

Using SSH for IPv6-enabled HTTP Proxying

My ISP has apparently made no progress whatsoever with IPv6, but I’ve got an IPv6 enabled VPS. SSH makes it trivial to use that VPS as a SOCKS5 proxy. Just do: ssh -D 8080 myvps.example.com...

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Syndicated 2011-11-11 16:50:26 from The Daily Build