Suricata

Suricata is a high performance Network IDS, IPS and Network Security Monitoring engine. Open Source and owned by a community run non-profit foundation, the Open Information Security Foundation OISF. Suricata is developed by the OISF and its supporting vendors. via Suricata. This looks very interesting…

ppss – (Distributed) Parallel Processing Shell Script – parallel processing made easy! – Google Project Hosting

PPSS is a Bash shell script that executes commands, scripts or programs in parallel. It is designed to make full use of current multi-core CPUs. It will detect the number of available CPUs and start a separate job for each CPU core. It will also use hyper threading by default. via ppss – (Distributed) Parallel …

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apt-fast and Axel: Roughly 26x Faster apt-get Installations and Upgrades

The apt-fast script I have created is a little shellscript that increases the speed of apt-get by many times. You need to have the axel download accelerator installed, which is a simple, short process, but everything else is extremely straight forward. I started out downloading the upgrades for Kubuntu, at 32kb/s. Not terrible, but not …

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