http://nathanharrington.info/ Nathan Harrington en-us Nathan Harrington 2008-12-11T22:09:23+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 IBM developerWorks podcast with Scott Laningham. Nathan Harrington talks about his highlighted article this week on social networking open source visualization aids. IBM developerWorks podcast with Scott Laningham. Nathan Harrington talks about his highlighted article this week on social networking open source visualization aids.

]]> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/scott?entry=nathan_harrington_on_social_network IBM developerWorks podcast Nathan Harrington 2009-01-07T15:20:23+00:00 Social-networking open source visualization aids, Social-networking data analysis can help you understand content, connections, and opportunities for your personal and business associations. This article presents tools and code to extract key components of your social network using the Twitter API to chart, geolocate, and visualize your social-networking data. Local cached text. Social-networking open source visualization aids, Social-networking data analysis can help you understand content, connections, and opportunities for your personal and business associations. This article presents tools and code to extract key components of your social network using the Twitter API to chart, geolocate, and visualize your social-networking data. Local cached text.

]]> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-socialtools/?ca-har-blog20090106 IBM developerWorks articles Nathan Harrington 2009-01-06T10:09:23+00:00 How to ungrab Firefox hotkeys from Flash players, Flash players and other embedded applications in Firefox require their own hooks for keyboard and mouse input. For years, Flash has grabbed Firefox keypresses, which stops people from using the keyboard for navigation, creating new tabs, or even exiting the Flash focus. Learn how to create a Perl program that communicates with a Firefox extension and cnee to restore your keyboard functionality, Local cached text. How to ungrab Firefox hotkeys from Flash players, Flash players and other embedded applications in Firefox require their own hooks for keyboard and mouse input. For years, Flash has grabbed Firefox keypresses, which stops people from using the keyboard for navigation, creating new tabs, or even exiting the Flash focus. Learn how to create a Perl program that communicates with a Firefox extension and cnee to restore your keyboard functionality, Local cached text.

]]> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-78414-firefox-flash/?ca-har-blog20081216 IBM developerWorks articles Nathan Harrington 2008-12-16T10:09:23+00:00 Expand your user-authentication options with mouse dynamics: Use Perl, cnee, and custom algorithms to measure how specific users move the mouse and click buttons. In this article, we discuss how mouse-click hold times, or a combination of keyboard and mouse activity can enable new levels of access-requirements obfuscation. Learn how to apply the open source tools cnee and Perl in applications to measure the characteristic attributes of how users manipulate the mouse. Local cached text. Expand your user-authentication options with mouse dynamics, Use Perl, cnee, and custom algorithms to measure how specific users move the mouse and click buttons. In this article, we discuss how mouse-click hold times, or a combination of keyboard and mouse activity can enable new levels of access-requirements obfuscation. Learn how to apply the open source tools cnee and Perl in applications to measure the characteristic attributes of how users manipulate the mouse. Local cached text.

]]> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-userauth-mouse/?ca-har-blog20081201 IBM developerWorks articles Nathan Harrington 2008-12-01T10:09:23+00:00 Reduce your PC's power consumption through smart activity monitors, Monitor application usage, system attributes, and user activity to more effectively use the power-management systems of your laptop or desktop computer. This article provides tools and code to build on existing power-saving measures by monitoring your application-usage patterns. Use the techniques presented here to change your power settings based on the application in focus, user activity, and general system performance. Local cached text. IBM developerWorks podcast with Scott Laningham (Local copy of podcast). Featured in the The Green IT Report. Reduce your PC's power consumption through smart activity monitors, Monitor application usage, system attributes, and user activity to more effectively use the power-management systems of your laptop or desktop computer. This article provides tools and code to build on existing power-saving measures by monitoring your application-usage patterns. Use the techniques presented here to change your power settings based on the application in focus, user activity, and generalsystem performance. Local cached text. IBM developerWorks podcast with Scott Laningham (Local copy of podcast). Featured in the The Green IT Report

]]> http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-smart-monitors/?ca-har-blog20081104 IBM developerWorks articles Nathan Harrington 2008-11-04T10:09:23+00:00 Shut down idle computers on your network automatically, recent pushes for "green" technology focus mostly on talk, with little action for the typical home or small-office environment. Many users leave their systems online continuously through laziness or ignorance, resulting in a significant source of power consumption, as well as an additional vector for malware propagation. The tools and code presented here allow you to find those inactive systems and securely start the shutdown process. With a Linux box monitoring your network connections using Argus and some custom Perl code, any system that supports Perl can be set to be remotely shut down when a centralized set of inactivity rules are met. Local cached text. Featured in The Green IT Report. Shut down idle computers on your network automatically, recent pushes for "green" technology focus mostly on talk, with little action for the typical home or small-office environment. Many users leave their systems online continuously through laziness or ignorance, resulting in a significant source of power consumption, as well as an additional vector for malware propagation. The tools and code presented here allow you to find those inactive systems and securely start the shutdown process. With a Linux box monitoring your network connections using Argus and some custom Perl code, any systm that supports Perl can be set to be remotely shut down when a centralized set of inactivity rules are met. Local cached text. Featured in The Green IT Report.

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