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I found this beautiful desktop setup posted on lifehacker. Pretty nice. Inspires me to create something similar in OS X.

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Security data visualization is definitely a promising and awesome way to look at your logs / ids alerts / firewall rules. I was recently introduced to secviz, a site showcasing the various graphing and plotting tools freely available to help visualize un-eye-popping log or plaintext data. Of particular interest to me was:

• How many times have you looked at a firewall rule set and collapse in anticipated mental exhaustion? Wouldn’t it be much nicer if someone just drew a picture of that rats nest? Enter Ruined which makes prettyful things like this:

• Monitoring server load sounds like a job for another server to do (agh infinite loop!) but with a couple RGB values and some squiggly math, you can produce load reports that look like this!

Take a peek at secviz and get inspired. What else would you make pretty pictures of?

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