Sweet Home 3D is free and open source tool for one particular task, house planning.
Long learning curve is not needed, as the 15 minutes example below shows.
Also there are existing examples to get started.
The tool supports several languages, the example below is with finnish languge.
The Sweet Home 3D site contains several additional material which is not included in the normal installation, like furniture library and more textures.
Ernst & Young has published their latest survey “2012 Global Information Security Survey“. This is a good information source.
At the report page, there is an interactive tool to see some of the results. Below 2 such examples are shown for the Government and Public sector.
Links
Update 2014: The link to 2014 Survey
BIS has published the latest security breaches survey. Again, in addition to other reports, it is worth to have a look.
About BIS: The Department for Business, Innovation & Skills (BIS) is the department for economic growth. The department invests in skills and education to promote trade, boost innovation and help people to start and grow a business. BIS also protects consumers and reduces the impact of regulation.
About the survey
The Information Security Breaches survey was published today by PwC, supported by BIS through the National Cyber Security Programme. The report highlights the ongoing and changing threat to UK businesses from cyber security incidents.
Highlights
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Do incidents happen in the Cloud? And are we talking about? Which kind of incidents? To have some answers and views on these questions, it is worth to look the report by CSA called “Cloud Computing Vulnerability Incidents: A Statistical Overview“
11,491 news articles on cloud computing-related outages from 39 news sources between Jan 2008 and Feb 2012 were reviewed.
The investigation revealed that the top three threats were
- “Insecure Interfaces & APIs” (51 incidents; 29% of all threats),
- “Data Loss & Leakage” (43 incidents; 25%), and
- “Hardware Failure” (18 incidents; 10%).
These three threats accounted for 64% of all cloud outage incidents
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ENISA has published (jan 2013) a report called Threat Landscape. It is good reading for seeing the current trends…
The ENISA Threat Landscape provides an overview of threats, together with current and emerging trends. It is based on publicly available data and provides an independent view on observed threats, threat agents and threat trends. Over 140 recent reports from security industry, networks of excellence, standardisation bodies and other independent institutes have been analysed.
Some highlights
The annual IT barometer is good source of information for persons interested on significance and utilization of IT.
The annual IT barometer of the Finnish Information Processing Association studies the significance of IT for the executives of Finnish companies. We study how IT is utilized, what factors and competences connected to IT are considered to be important in terms of future success, how successful IT projects are, how successful the outsourcing project has been, how extensively best IT management practices are used, how the organizations use new technologies.
Some highlights are shown below.
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Sometimes it would be great to be able to slow down a song. For example, for a school play the original song might be way too fast for presentation. Or you might want to learn the lyrics of your favorite song or the song that you saw at youtube 🙂
Well, the “slow down” can be done by Audacity. Choose the menu Effect->Change Tempo.
In the example below, the tempo is changed by 15% so that the original 3 minutes song will now take 30 seconds longer.
For this kind of operation it is better to operate on the raw file (wav) if available.
Note. For generating the wav file from a video (mp4 etc), one can use XMedia Recode.
