If you are having performance problems with Voice over IP, gaming online, or any other service, you can now find out whether you have a bandwidth problem, slow response times, or packet loss. There is a new service from the hands of the creators of Speedtest, called PingTest. They will tell yo about your packet [...]

If you need to choose a password there is a Unix program called mkpasswd that will help you choose a strong one. Some examples: mkpasswd –char=10 This will generate a 10 char random password. You can also try: mkpasswd -s “insertwordhere” This will take the characters from the entered word, and create a password from [...]

The Hacker’s Choice has released a Bluetooth Security testing suite that you may be interested in, it is called BlueMaho Project, a GUI-shell (interface) suite of tools for testing security of bluetooth devices and find vulnerabilites, freeware, opensource and written in Python. They have tested it on Debian 4.0 Etch. BlueMaho Project