binpoint.com » Pretty http://binpoint.com A Security Blog (Stirred with Geek Life) Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:02:18 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 VMWare Headed to a Smartphone Near You http://binpoint.com/2009/02/vmware-headed-to-a-smartphone-near-you/ http://binpoint.com/2009/02/vmware-headed-to-a-smartphone-near-you/#comments Thu, 26 Feb 2009 18:28:14 +0000 tom http://binpoint.com/?p=224
  • I sure miss grep in M$ Windows
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  • Pretty graphs for the malware detection (ftw?)
    • ]]>     AWESOME (Clicky!)

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    • ]]>     Beautiful_Desktop

    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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