My shiny new Nokia N810 Internet Tablet arrived this week, and I like it!
(Bias alert: my friend Dirk-Jan works for Nokia in Finland as a project manager on the N810, so that made me a little more interested in this gadget than I would otherwise have been.)
In response to my article about using the recent IPTables module to fight brute-force password attacks, based on an idea from Andrew Pollock, a reader worked out the idea into a complete firewall script, with configurable whitelisting, the ability to block multiple ports, and several other enhancements. Read his post for the details.
You can download his firewall script here. You can contact the author at the address meetscott at the domain netscape.net.
Synergy lets multiple machines share a single mouse and keyboard, and makes switching between them as easy as moving the mouse from one screen to another on a multi-monitor setup. Just move the mouse off the edge of the screen, and it enters the screen of another machine, taking the keyboard with it. It even manages the clipboard, so you can copy a piece of text on one screen and paste it into a window on another machine. It’s open-source and supports Windows, Linux and the Mac.
The config program could be more intuitive, but once it’s set up it works really nifty. It’s great for working on my laptop and desktop at work, or for switching between my Mac and my Ubuntu machine at home. Which is why I hereby give Synergy the official “recommended by Martin” award.