http://fotinakis.com/blog Fri, 13 Jun 2008 02:44:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Ok ... now this is just funny. Quick disclaimer: I love Google. And not just in some nebulous, fanboy way. Through my work with Utah State University I've been able to meet and work with some of the brilliant engineers who work there and I greatly respect the work they ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2008.06.12/google-io-2008-pageview-limit-exceeded/ For anyone else out there trying to set up Apple Mail to check their Gmail account and getting an "Invalid credentials" error: You may need to unlock CAPTCHA for your Gmail account: https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha Just go to that page, fill out your information and everything should work. I'm not sure if there are larger ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2008.06.01/apple-mail-and-gmail-imap-invalid-credentials-fix/ My newest project: breaking interface boundaries. A couple of my friends at work and I have decided to build a multi-touch table based on the technique of frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR). This can be described by a diagram easier than words, so here we go: Graphic from Tim Roth's Multi-touch ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2008.04.06/unui/ The following is an adaptation of Vaibhav Bhatia's cookie-handling XML-RPC client (text source) with a few changes to implement SSL for HTTPS transport in place of the basic HTTP transport. This was done specifically for use with CherryPy sessions so that the XML-RPC client (the server proxy object) could be ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2008.03.09/cookies-xmlrpc-and-ssl/ Here's a quick tutorial on how to secure the Screen Sharing application in Leopard by tunneling your connection through an encrypted SSH channel. The new Screen Sharing application is basically just glorified VNC, but it does come with some nice features (dual-screen view, for example). However, just turning on the service ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2008.02.13/secure-mac-screen-sharing/ When a company employs questionable tactics in its business practices, it is many times appropriate to chagrin it publicly in order to make others aware. In that vein, I would simply like to spread the news that Network Solutions (a company who used to be the only registrar of .com's ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2008.01.20/dirty-business-network-solutions-domain-registration/ Let me just trace where this is coming from for you: while laughing again at an XKCD comic, I was led to Google the name "Eric S. Raymond" (the references to Richard Stallman and Linus Torvalds I got, but I didn't know much about ESR), which then led me to ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2007.12.31/networking-via-carrier-pigeon/ Welcome to my little corner of the web. I'm currently majoring in computer science and minoring in music at Utah State University while working for the Programming and Design Team in USU's Department of Information Technology. Most of the time work seems to be full-time and school is the side ... http://fotinakis.com/blog/2007.12.30/my-canvas/