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Glasnost: Test if your ISP is shaping your traffic

http://broadband.mpi-sws.org/transparency/glasnost.php#tests The goal of the Glasnost project is to make ISPs' traffic shaping policies transparent to their customers. To this end, we designed Glasnost tests that enable you to check whether traffic from your applications is being rate-limited (i.e., throttled) or blocked. Glasnost tests work by measuring and comparing the performance of different application flows between your host and our measurement servers. The tests can detect traffic shaping in both upstream and downstream directions separately.
It will take anywhere from 3 seconds to 1 minute for your pic to upload, depending on how big it is. You're going to see this message every time you post a new pic. So, we're making the text really long so that it'll take you at least five picture uploads to read it all. Here's what we're thinking...While you're first picture is uploading think about someone you want to kiss. When you upload your second pic think about one friend who you can beat in a race. On your third photo upload think about your favorite food that begins with the letter H. http://www.crowdrise.com/about/how-it-works

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What can you do with a few gigabytes and a USB port? Quite a lot, with the right software. Learn how to encrypt your work, run whole systems, rescue Windows, and customize your thumb drive with these USB-geared tricks. Photo by Debs (ò‿ó)♪ . Note: Gina previously rounded up 10 thumb drive tricks in April 2007, and we've borrowed a few of those ideas here.

Top 10 USB Thumb Drive Tricks

http://lifehacker.com/5583307/top-10-usb-thumb-drive-tricks-2010-edition