As Longmont, Colorado rolls out the 1 Gb fiber network called NextLight to the city's residents, a common question is, "Am I really getting 1000 Mbps Up and Down? I run speedtest.net, but am seeing a much slower speed."

First, let me reassure you: Yes, the City is giving you 1 Gbps. The problem is you are not setup to use it, nor test it.

I am going to quickly tell you why you are seeing the low speeds as well as potential solutions, how to fix your network, and then how to get a better picture of your actual speeds.

It seems like it meets all the needed characteristics of a good password. Length is 12 characters. It has lowercase, uppercase, alphas and numerics, as well as special characters. The answer as to why this is a bad password will reveal that everything we thought about how to make a secure password, might just be wrong.

We often hear the term that hackers are using a technique called a dictionary attack to try and guess your password so they can hack your email/bank/etc account.

There are a few task I complete first for every new site including both WordPress and Drupal. This is not an all inclusive list, but covers the main items.

1) Analytics & Search Submission

The very first step I always take with any new site is to create a Google Analytics and Google Search (formerly Webmaster Tools) accounts. As soon as the site is functional, the first module I will install is something that will inject the GA code in to each page.

Put up a nifty little diff tool based on Jamie Peabody's code that allows you to quickly review the differences between two files, presumably text-files, but works with most file-types.

First thing that comes to mind is that this would be a great Drupal 8 module with a bit of tweaking such as:

Yes, I have replaced the site again.

This is the result of setting up a new Debian 8 (Jessie) Linux server with MySQL 5.5 and the really brand new PHP 7.0.1.

This particular site is running the brandy new Drupal 8.0.1 which I have been wanting to play with.

Just got it installed, so check back in a few days.

Unix Metacharacters used in Regular Expressions

Regular Expressions

File Permission Schema

All UNIX files have permissions and information attached to them that allow or deny access to the resource, based on the users role. The schema diagram below shows how permissions are structured.