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Speedtest.net is used for measuring internet bandwidth. You can configure your own speedtest.net mini server to run Internet speed. It pings several websites via HTTP and calculates the response time and display results in GUI. This tutorial teaches you how to configure speedtest.net server in Ubuntu 15.04. For installing speedtest.net server it requires Apache, Php package, speedtest mini package and flash player. SpeedTest.net Server Installation: Step 1: Installation of Apache It is the world’s most wildly used web server that about more than 50% websites run on Apache web server. Following are the steps given to install Apache web server. Open terminal using Ctrl+ alt + T , and Enter the following command. # apt-get install apache2 Step 2: Installation of Php Now, after installing Apache web server , you need to install Php packages, run following command in terminal, # apt-get install php5 php5-mysql php5-gd php5-mcrypt Step 3: Download Spee...

When I was young, we were fortunate that one of the classes we had to attend was learning to speed read. To have access to that software today can be very expensive. Here, we can sort of emulate that old software with a simple shell file program. You can also build a teleprompter so you can create your own sort newsreader setup. Then you can have your own news show so the video can be uploaded to say Youtube or the like. The code is very short and works extremely wel with short paragraphs. To invoke the software you will need the name of the file to be read and the delay to be used to determine the speed of the text to be displayed. You might want to start with .5 and then you can adjust as needed. $ ./asciitextrdr.sh  asciifile2bread .5 [code] #!/bin/sh # A program to slowly cat file or standard input. if [ "$1" ] ; then     file="$1" else     file="-" fi cat "$file" | while read c ; do echo  "$c" sleep  $...