Run a free website speed test from multiple locations around the globe using real browsers (IE and Chrome) and at real consumer connection speeds. You can run simple tests or perform advanced testing including multi-step transactions, video capture, content blocking and much more. Your results will provide rich diagnostic information including resource loading waterfall charts, Page Speed optimization checks and suggestions for improvements.

I study the impact of technology for a living, and I’m a former programmer. I happily bank online, and use my smartphone to message friends and family. I support and trust encryption to protect ordinary people’s communication. I even believe computers will probably turn out to be safer drivers than too-easily distracted humans. I’m not averse to technological solutions.

In this case, though, we need to stick with methods that allow a paper trail that is verifiable after the election. No matter how you vote, there should be a tightly guarded paper record that can be used for audits, if not for the initial counting. This is not just because paper verification is more tamper-resistant than our insecure voting machines. Our elections need to be open to oversight without the need for voters to understand how encryption works. We can’t tell them to simply trust the experts, especially when people are deliberately sowing distrust.

Two cyberpunks go for their big score by hacking a vicious criminal. Adam Sims reads the novel that coined the term 'cyberspace'. Read by Adam Sims.

When not jacking into the matrix to hack corporate mainframes for shady clients, Bobby Quine and Automatic Jack are hanging out in the Gentleman Loser trying to figure out a way of pulling off that one big score that will make them rich. But industrial espionage is a dangerous business, especially when they decide to rip off Chrome, the most ruthless figure in the local mob subsidiary.

Described as the father of cyberpunk fiction, William Gibson's 1982 story still influences modern sci-fi.

Producer: Eugene Murphy

Made for BBC 7 and first broadcast in 2003.

ssh-audit is a tool for ssh server auditing.
Features

SSH1 and SSH2 protocol server support;
grab banner, recognize device or software and operating system, detect compression;
gather key-exchange, host-key, encryption and message authentication code algorithms;
output algorithm information (available since, removed/disabled, unsafe/weak/legacy, etc);
output algorithm recommendations (append or remove based on recognized software version);
output security information (related issues, assigned CVE list, etc);
analyze SSH version compatibility based on algorithm information;
historical information from OpenSSH, Dropbear SSH and libssh;
no dependencies, compatible with Python 2.6+, Python 3.x and PyPy;

Das Landesgremium OÖ des Maschinenhandels vergibt ausschließlich an OÖ Computer- und Büromaschinenhändler das Internet-Gütesiegel "WKO – Computerhandel – GEPRÜFT“. Um dieses Gütesiegel berechtigt zu führen, müssen diese Betriebe ein Reihe von Kriterien erfüllen und einhalten.

“What we’re getting with the IoT is actuation in the real world. If I take a bunch of thermostats offline for 24 hours in the UK in winter, I’ll probably kill a bunch of pensioners. There’s your cyber terrorism attack.”

Xapian is an Open Source Search Engine Library, released under the GPL v2+. It's written in C++, with bindings to allow use from Perl, Python, PHP, Java, Tcl, C#, Ruby, Lua, Erlang and Node.js (so far!)

Xapian is a highly adaptable toolkit which allows developers to easily add advanced indexing and search facilities to their own applications. It supports the Probabilistic Information Retrieval model and also supports a rich set of boolean query operators.

The trouble with writing fiction is that, as a famous novelist once said, reality is under no compulsion to make sense or be plausible. Those of us who make stuff up are constantly under threat of having our best fictional creations one-upped by the implausibility of real events. I'm pretty much resigned to this happening, especially with the Laundry Files stories: at least space opera and fantasy aren't as prone to being derailed as fiction set in the near-present.

Synthpop Artist made in the 80's

Personal assistants are hot these days. Open source personal assistant is a dream for many developers. Recently released Jasper makes it really easy to install personal assistant on Raspberry Pi and use it for custom voice commands, information retrieval and so on. Jasper is written in Python and can be extended through the API. More importantly, Jasper uses CMUSphinx for offline speech recognition, so much waited capability for assistant developers.

Now that I’m using OpenPGP cards for GnuPG, I may as well start using them for their other bells and whistles too. The first and most useful such extra feature of those cards is using the authentication key for SSH.

Getting this working is actually surprisingly simple...

Please don't advocate learning to code just for the sake of learning how to code. Or worse, because of the fat paychecks. Instead, I humbly suggest that we spend our time learning how to …

+) Research voraciously, and understand how the things around us work at a basic level.
+) Communicate effectively with other human beings.

Given the challenges most of us face today, I would whittle this down to a short list of the following four options that we will review in this post: The Grinder Gatling Tsung JMeter We’ll cover the main features of each tool, show a simple load-test scenario, and display sample reports. At the end, you'll find a comparison matrix to help you decide which tool is best for your project.

What I really like about Graphite is the fact that you can push data to it, instead of using a poller, like Cacti for example. Here is a step-by-step guide on how to install and configure Graphite on Ubuntu Server:

Graphite requires: python2.4 or greater pycairo (with PNG backend support) mod_python django python-ldap (optional - needed for ldap-based webapp authentication) python-memcached (optional - needed for webapp caching, big performance boost) python-sqlite2 (optional - a django-supported database module is required) bitmap and bitmap-fonts required on some systems, notably Red Hat