Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic

Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic. I am running this to test if my ISP is shaping my traffic, it uses the Measurement Lab research platform and I found information on it recently that suggests it does what it says. I wonder what my ISP does?

The goal of the Glasnost project [...]

Using Dual Monitors with Dual Computers

I have setup a nice working dual monitor setup on the basement workbench. The key to this one is I am using Dual Computers and Dual Operating systems and yet only one keyboard and mouse. Using the latest release of Synergy stimulated by this recent article from LifeHacker I went back and setup Synergy. The [...]

dd-wrt and git as Aspirational Projects

Aspirational Projects: Those projects we aspire to complete and yet often never really find time to actually work at completing.

Two of mine, installing dd-wrt on a router as a hack, and installing git for version control have been around for some time.

I completed dd-wrt yesterday and have no idea why I put this [...]

Is The Web Server You Deploy Secure?

Website security is a big deal, in the shop today I am testing out Websecurify which is an automated web application security scanner. A quick shoutout to Muhammad Usama Alam at Smash!ng Apps that gave this one a quick review and brought it to my attention . You can find the code hosted on Google [...]