Older blog entries for bstpierre (starting at number 77)

Controlling Audio with i3

As I mentioned in the last post, I’ve switched to the i3 window manager. After fixing the Caps Lock key, the next order of business is getting the audio keys on my multimedia keyboard to...

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Syndicated 2012-05-12 12:52:46 from The Daily Build

Making Caps Lock an Additional Control in XWindows

Background: I just built a new computer, and “upgraded” to Ubuntu 12.04. I’ve been a fan of Ubuntu for a long time (first Debian, then Ubuntu because of the faster / more...

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Syndicated 2012-05-11 11:49:20 from The Daily Build

GTK3 Example Code

Over the past year or so I’ve been doing a fair bit of GUI programming — both in ${DAYJOB}s and otherwise. Until just recently most of my GUI experience has been with wxWidgets (and most...

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Syndicated 2012-05-07 09:38:18 from The Daily Build

User Interface Hall of Fame

A long, long time ago, I talked about a poor user interface. This is the follow-up “good user interface” post that I promised. I’d like to talk about Anki, which is a flashcard...

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Syndicated 2012-05-06 02:38:05 from The Daily Build

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

Fixing Certificate Errors with Cisco AnyConnect

“AnyConnect cannot confirm it is connected to your secure gateway. The local network may not be trustworthy. Please try another network.” There may be several reasons for this error,...

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Syndicated 2011-11-06 15:50:20 from The Daily Build

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