very great stuff, nicely packaged and presented. jealous it's only for windows.
Thank you. We wanted to see what the reaction would be before considering a Mac version.
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#192Beautiful. I can easily see using this regularly on my Windows machines. Some items: 1) It'd be nice to be able to scroll around directly on the graph using mouse gestures (middle-click drag?). 2) Graphing of bandwidth seems to be off somehow. If I do a speedtest.net, my ~104Mbps transfer shows up on the graph as 38 Mbps and the graph scale shows a max of 20 Mbps. http://imgur.com/QkZMVvj
I use Speedtest quite a bit and I think they estimate your speed via a system that doesn't require you actually hit their transfer rate. I could be wrong though... we'll look closer and see what's going on there. I agree dragging right/left on the graph would be cool. Thanks for the complements and feedback!
The graph shows a discrepancy when downloading from other sources as well. Steam is reporting 4MB/s while GlassWire shows around ~3.3Mb/s (hard to really estimate).
Also, the Apps tab under Graphs says 250Mb for Steam. I have no idea what this value is supposed to reflect. Similarly, the Traffic tab shows a similar value (but slightly different value) for HTTP traffic which Steam is the only user of right now.
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#193This is such a nicely made app, Thank you!!
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#194Wow. I hate how so many Windows applications are considerably uglier compared to Mac counterparts. The Windows apps don't seem to push forward Windows design but rather get stuck in the Windows XP design days. This is beautifully designed and clear. The graph visualization is prime, and I love that the peaks are "rounded" out instead of sharp declines (sharp declines would make it look more like a live stock ticker).…
I'm a Windows user (go on, press the down arrow) and I don't care about app design. Give me military ship grey windows, text menus and a way to hide all icons. Windows 2000 was for me the apogee of 2D design.
I'm on Win7, but it looks exactly like the classic Win2K desktop. Grey bars, bottom taskbar, no pins, classic and functional.
Re: Show HN: I got hacked, felt paranoid, made an app – GlassWire
#195I've wanted a replacement for CoreForce for quite some time:
http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/index.php?module=Wiki&actio...
It was a piece of security software modeled after OpenBSD's pf firewall which let you define policies around network, file, and registry access for applications. You were able to setup really fine-grained policies as well, for example to only allow access to the C:\temp directory for list and read access, but to deny delete access, and to ask the user to accept/reject if it tries to open a file for writing.
So instead of monitoring access after the fact, CoreForce let you actively grant permissions and would either silently deny or interactively prompt you when an application went outside the resources you granted.
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#196Earlier quoted context omitted.
Out of curiosity, do you have any security concerns about calling home for analytic or is it just you would prefer the privacy of not having your usage tracked?
It's mostly privacy concerns, but also the fact that you use this software at all can disclose some interesting information to eavesdropping attackers. Most worrisome is just that it's not very well disclosed - most users just don't know it's happening, and it's not very well justified.
How can you say "most users don't know it's happening" when it's the first thing you see in the graph when you load the application?
We got your initial point..
I think you're just grinding metal at this point.. Ease down.. ease down...
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#197Earlier quoted context omitted.
GitHub for Windows is another beautifully designed Windows app. They even published a blog post about it: https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows
Here is a library that helps to create such an interface: http://mahapps.com/ It's also mentioned in the blog post you've posted. Disclaimer: I'm one of the developers of MahApps.Metro, I hope nobody minds the shameless self-promotion
It would be really cool to use this with pyQt. I know Qt has styling already so maybe it isn't needed?
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
> All software related to security should be open source Why just security-related software? It doesn't get special permissions or anything. All software can do equal damage on most operating systems. > I personally avoid using closed-source tools for security purposes I too prefer open source tools for security purposes, but that means that for security purposes I prefer all my software to be open source.
In a perfect world, all software would be open source. Our world isn't perfect so I just live with asking people to make their security-related software open source.
Sounds like Debian is perfect world then :)
I must confess to using a few blobs for drivers, software that school wants me to run (for UML designing) and the occasional game. But overall, I'm pretty clean of closed source software.
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#199This is immensely helpful (and beautiful). I really like how you can monitor remote boxes. Customization of alerts is great too! Any chance you will support hi-res screens (see http://imgur.com/ztN8cL3 )?
Wow, that looks awful. What kind of screen are you using? I don't have one. Any details would be appreciated so we can fix this.
Came to say the same thing. This is while running it on Windows 8.1 through Parallels 9 on a rMBP.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
GitHub for Windows is another beautifully designed Windows app. They even published a blog post about it: https://github.com/blog/1151-designing-github-for-windows
that app has less features than a rock.
Nailed down the whole Windows Metro style experience.