From lnyman at Census.gov Tue May 11 14:07:54 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? Message-ID: Hi, So who's going to the YAPC event in Pittsburgh? Being only 4 hours away, I couldn't resist. Lisa W. Nyman Standard Disclaimer applies. +Read the GIS FAQ: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/faq-index.html -Life is too short to wear ugly underwear. "All roads lead somewhere so don't sweat the wrong turns." --me From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Tue May 11 18:09:38 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: > So who's going to the YAPC event in Pittsburgh? Being only 4 hours away, > I couldn't resist. I'm going and should be presenting "The (not-quite-so) Natural History of Perl and it's Culture". Skud is doing something with Databases and Perl. I think it will be a lot of fun :) For only $60 you can't go wrong. Also, since I'm taking some time off for a few projects, I am starting to think about a web page for MNW. Ideas are welcome..... e. From th at womensports.com Tue May 11 13:38:42 1999 From: th at womensports.com (Thalia L. Hooker) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <199905112340.SAA04712@mail.visi.com> Hi, I am also planning on going. I wish the Open Source conference offered a student discount. Thalia > So who's going to the YAPC event in Pittsburgh? Being only 4 hours away, > I couldn't resist. > > Lisa W. Nyman Standard Disclaimer applies. From lnyman at Census.gov Tue May 11 19:16:18 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: <199905112340.SAA04712@mail.visi.com> Message-ID: Hi, Yes, TPC has traditionally been expensive. Atleast this year the other session options are available. I plan on attending most of the Apache sessions this year. -lisa On Tue, 11 May 1999, Thalia L. Hooker wrote: > I am also planning on going. I wish the Open Source conference > offered a student discount. From ziggy at panix.com Tue May 11 19:45:19 1999 From: ziggy at panix.com (Adam Turoff) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: from "Lisa Nyman" at May 11, 99 08:16:18 pm Message-ID: <199905120045.UAA04856@panix.com> lisa wrote: > Yes, TPC has traditionally been expensive. Atleast this year the other > session options are available. I plan on attending most of the Apache > sessions this year. The problem at tpc1.0 was that there were some good presentations, but they could have expanded the coverage a little. The problem at tpc2.0 was that there were many interesting presentations scheduled concurrently. Stretching it out to a third day would have been more worthwhile. It made sense to go with two or three colleagues. The problem with tpc3.0 is that there are many interesting perl presentations scheduled concurrently, conflicting with really interesting (apache|python| linux|tcl|sendmail) presentations. It makes sense to go with five or six colleagues. If I wanted to go to Usenix, I'd go in June, not August. What we really need is tpc3.0 scheduled over two weeks in the Bahamas. No conflicts. If you're bored, you know where to find the beaches and the bars. If you're a total geek, you don't have to see the sun at all. Z. From skud at netizen.com.au Tue May 11 22:50:43 1999 From: skud at netizen.com.au (skud@netizen.com.au) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: ; from elaine ashton on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:09:38PM -0500 References: Message-ID: <19990512135043.A24847@netizen.com.au> On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 06:09:38PM -0500, elaine ashton wrote: > > So who's going to the YAPC event in Pittsburgh? Being only 4 hours away, > > I couldn't resist. > > I'm going and should be presenting "The (not-quite-so) Natural History of > Perl and it's Culture". Skud is doing something with Databases and Perl. I > think it will be a lot of fun :) For only $60 you can't go wrong. > I'm meant to be going (argh! funding!) and presenting "web-enabled databases with DBI" or some such thing. Do you have any idea how expensive it is to get from Melbourne, Australia to Pittsburgh? K. -- Kirrily Robert http://netizen.com.au/ - Internet and Open Source development and consulting Level 10, 99 Queen St, Melbourne VIC 3000 Phone: +61 3 9602 2452 Fax: +61 3 9642 4955 From dha at panix.com Wed May 12 01:45:08 1999 From: dha at panix.com (David H. Adler) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: <199905120045.UAA04856@panix.com>; from Adam Turoff on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:45:19PM -0400 References: <199905120045.UAA04856@panix.com> Message-ID: <19990512024508.B868@panix.com> On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:45:19PM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote: > The problem at tpc2.0 was that there were many interesting presentations > scheduled concurrently. I, in fact, seem to remember several people thinking that whoever put the schedule together should be shot... Oh, wait, that may have been my last SF con... Actually, I think it was both... > The problem with tpc3.0 is that there are many interesting perl presentations > scheduled concurrently, conflicting with really interesting (apache|python| > linux|tcl|sendmail) presentations. Hm.... You've actually seen a schedule? Lucky you. :-) If this is true, then it is kinda too bad. Hm. :-| > What we really need is tpc3.0 scheduled over two weeks in the Bahamas. > No conflicts. If you're bored, you know where to find the beaches and > the bars. If you're a total geek, you don't have to see the sun at all. Hey, there's always Perl Whirl 2000... :-) -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ I didn't jump. I took a tiny step and the conclusions were right there. - Buffy From lnyman at Census.gov Wed May 12 06:57:50 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: <19990512024508.B868@panix.com> Message-ID: Hi, On Wed, 12 May 1999, David H. Adler wrote: > On Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:45:19PM -0400, Adam Turoff wrote: > > The problem at tpc2.0 was that there were many interesting presentations > > scheduled concurrently. > > I, in fact, seem to remember several people thinking that whoever put > the schedule together should be shot... Oh, wait, that may have been > my last SF con... Actually, I think it was both... Yeah, I missed a lot and ended up shuffling in and out of various sessions. > > The problem with tpc3.0 is that there are many interesting perl presentations > > scheduled concurrently, conflicting with really interesting (apache|python| > > linux|tcl|sendmail) presentations. > > Hm.... You've actually seen a schedule? Lucky you. :-) If this is > true, then it is kinda too bad. Hm. :-| On-line at the O'reilly site. > Hey, there's always Perl Whirl 2000... :-) Uh-huh - but that's an *Alaska* cruise. If I ruled the world, I would have made it a Caribbean cruise. -lisa From th at womensports.com Wed May 12 04:34:52 1999 From: th at womensports.com (Thalia L. Hooker) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: <19990512024508.B868@panix.com> References: <199905120045.UAA04856@panix.com>; from Adam Turoff on Tue, May 11, 1999 at 08:45:19PM -0400 Message-ID: <199905121436.JAA09291@mail.visi.com> They have recently posted the conference schedule at: http://conference.oreilly.com/ Thalia > > The problem with tpc3.0 is that there are many interesting perl presentations > > scheduled concurrently, conflicting with really interesting (apache|python| > > linux|tcl|sendmail) presentations. > > Hm.... You've actually seen a schedule? Lucky you. :-) If this is > true, then it is kinda too bad. Hm. :-| > From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Wed May 12 10:20:57 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] YAPC Anyone? In-Reply-To: <199905120045.UAA04856@panix.com> Message-ID: > The problem with tpc3.0 is that there are many interesting perl presentations > scheduled concurrently, conflicting with really interesting (apache|python| > linux|tcl|sendmail) presentations. It makes sense to go with five or > six colleagues. If I wanted to go to Usenix, I'd go in June, not August. Well, this happens at all conferences. Speaking of expense...I'm going to go with the intent of crashing it :) Noone blinked at me at the tutorials in Boston and for a savings of a couple of grand, I'll be shameless in my ability to disappear into a crowd. > What we really need is tpc3.0 scheduled over two weeks in the Bahamas. > No conflicts. If you're bored, you know where to find the beaches and > the bars. If you're a total geek, you don't have to see the sun at all. Now _that_ I would pay for.....Adam, I really have to get you thinking in terms of the Greater Antilles...St. Croix mahn. e. From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Wed May 12 10:36:37 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Wisdom of Princess Leia In-Reply-To: Message-ID: In the spirit of the Star Wars frenzy (driving into the university this morning I saw a row of tents outside the local theatre) I couldn't resist sharing this funny tidbit from an article in one of the weekly news rags my mother gave me. Carrie Fisher wrote "Postcards from The Edge of the Galaxy" talking about her experience as a 19 year old overnight success and there were two hilarious nuggets of wisdom contained therein; 1) From her diary... "I've got to stop getting obsessed with human beings and fall in love with a chair. Chairs have everything human beings have to offer, and less, which is obviously what I need. Less emotional and intellectual feedback, less warmth, less approval, less patience and less response. The less the merrier. Chairs it is. I must furnish my heart with feelings for furniture" Quite excellent wisdom for those of us lacking even a couch :) Come to think of it...less _is_ more in Unix.... 2) "There are three degrees of being weird. There are: 1) Salvageably weird. 2) Weird. 3) Irrevocably weird." 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon, 3 degrees of being weird...very true though :) Anyway...enjoy the Star Wars mayhem. Maybe we should get Carrie Fisher to try Perl then she would really get the 3 degrees of weird. e. From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Wed May 12 10:49:06 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Perl News In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On a less galactic note, there is a new Perl periodical on-line at http://www.perlmonth.com with a few good articles in it. This is its first showing so it has promise. Also, The Perl Journal has moved to earthweb and with your subscriber ID (on mailing label) you can read the articles on-line. Also, http://www.slashdot.org has started featuring more articles about Perl related stuff, though my favourite will always be the "Weird Al and Larry Wall: Separated at birth?" Enjoy. e. From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Tue May 18 16:53:00 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name (fwd) Message-ID: Ok, just for fun, since it is Star Wars day I am forwarding this from another girl geek list I am on. I thought it was hilarious seeing the names go by :) There is a Perl script begging to be written in here somewhere... may the force be with you. Ela Volvo of the planet Wired :) ---- <> first three letters of your first name Car type you are most often in of what you last purchased in the grocery-type store. I am Rac Prelude of the planet Tempura From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Tue May 18 17:37:31 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] web page.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It ain't much, but for the creatively challenged such as I am, it is a start. I ran across this a while back and cleaned it up a bit. I think the martian guy needs a camel on his suit or something. I'll be adding an image map to it for various things...maybe too, there is a better image of the poster out there. Anyway, comments, flames, ideas? e. From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Tue May 18 17:39:17 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] web page.. In-Reply-To: Message-ID: and the url would be handy too i would guess... http://www.pm.org/~mnwomen e. From madder at one.net Tue May 18 17:54:46 1999 From: madder at one.net (Paul Visscher) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] web page.. In-Reply-To: ; from elaine ashton on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:37:31PM -0500 References: Message-ID: <19990518185445.A1194@one.net> elaine ashton [elaine@cts.wustl.edu] said: > It ain't much, but for the creatively challenged such as I am, it is a > start. I ran across this a while back and cleaned it up a bit. I think the > martian guy needs a camel on his suit or something. I'll be adding an > image map to it for various things...maybe too, there is a better image of > the poster out there. Anyway, comments, flames, ideas? If you're still interested in having me do an image, i can. I got kinda busy and it got moved to the back burner. The good news is that im coming into some time soon, so i might actually be able to work on it... -- Paul Visscher madder@one.net <-><-><-><-><-> use Disclaimer::Std; "Our return flight from USENIX is 404. I'm afraid that our flight won't be found" -- ... From lnyman at Census.gov Tue May 18 18:06:39 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Hi, Ok, I'll bite. Lis Altima of the planet Altoids Lisa W. Nyman Standard Disclaimer applies. +Read the GIS FAQ: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/faq-index.html -Life is too short to wear ugly underwear. "All roads lead somewhere so don't sweat the wrong turns." --me On Tue, 18 May 1999, elaine ashton wrote: > Ok, just for fun, since it is Star Wars day I am forwarding this from > another girl geek list I am on. I thought it was hilarious seeing the > names go by :) There is a Perl script begging to be written in here > somewhere... > > may the force be with you. > > Ela Volvo of the planet Wired > > :) > > ---- > <> > > first three letters of your first name > Car type you are most often in > > of > > what you last purchased in the grocery-type store. > > I am Rac Prelude of the planet Tempura > > From lnyman at Census.gov Tue May 18 18:08:17 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] web page.. In-Reply-To: <19990518185445.A1194@one.net> Message-ID: Hi, I can work on layout and content. Lisa W. Nyman Standard Disclaimer applies. +Read the GIS FAQ: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/faq-index.html -Life is too short to wear ugly underwear. "All roads lead somewhere so don't sweat the wrong turns." --me From stickitinyourear at chokingpear.com Tue May 18 18:16:09 1999 From: stickitinyourear at chokingpear.com (mars) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name (fwd) Message-ID: <2.2.32.19990518231609.0095bf08@mail.serve.com> Hi, Mar Raleigh of the planet ob here! This is my first time posting to the list as I am a novice perl gal and have found myself easily intimated by those perlier then I. I am looking forward to seeing the web pages... I'll try to raise my voice now and again! -mars Density 3.9 g/cm^3 Diameter 6,794 km Mass of .11 earth masses (6.4219e23 kg) Orbit 227,940,000 km (1.52 AU) from Sun Martian year 686 days Average temp ~210 K Escape velocity 5.0 km/sec Url www.chokingpear.com Color red From dha at panix.com Tue May 18 22:45:01 1999 From: dha at panix.com (David H. Adler) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] web page.. In-Reply-To: ; from elaine ashton on Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:37:31PM -0500 References: Message-ID: <19990518234501.A20447@panix.com> On Tue, May 18, 1999 at 05:37:31PM -0500, elaine ashton wrote: > It ain't much, but for the creatively challenged such as I am, it is a > start. I ran across this a while back and cleaned it up a bit. I think the > martian guy needs a camel on his suit or something. Nah, put it on Tommy Kirk or Yvonne Craig. Anthony Houston is not someone you want as your poster boy... :-) -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ "You can't give a 4 to truth." - Saul Williams From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Wed May 19 03:30:23 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] star wars... Message-ID: I have but one thing to say about star wars.... "If you see one movie this summer, see 'Austin Powers The Spy Who Shagged Me'. If you are a sucker for sexy men with long hair, beards and light sabres, see star wars at a matinee with your nephew". Even the force couldn't make this movie rise above the jive talkin' lizards, the (now) boilerplate soundtrack by John Williams, and the new lord of sith in horns and make-up clearly for the transformers generation. As always, the Jedi are the core and the only hope. May the force be with you, always. e. and I would have be away from home when MIT hacked the dome again! http://web.mit.edu/manoli/phantom/ From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Wed May 19 03:38:16 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name (fwd) In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19990518231609.0095bf08@mail.serve.com> Message-ID: > Mar Raleigh of the planet ob here! as in o.b. wan kenobi? :D sarah, no giggling :) > This is my first time posting to the list as I am a novice > perl gal and have found myself easily intimated > by those perlier then I. > I am looking forward to seeing the web pages... > I'll try to raise my voice now and again! Do! and welcome to the list...I was starting to think that I was the only person on the list having a conversation with myself :) I would imagine someone with an account named 'stickitinyourear' will be more bold! :) Once I get more creative, I'm sure I'll start stirring the more Perl-ish thoughts. e. From lnyman at Census.gov Wed May 19 08:08:21 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Stress testing? Message-ID: Hi, Does anyone know of a script/module/etc archived somewhere that deals with stress testing a server and application - sort of bombarding the server with requests to see how it handles the presure? Lisa W. Nyman Standard Disclaimer applies. +Read the GIS FAQ: http://www.census.gov/geo/www/faq-index.html -Life is too short to wear ugly underwear. "All roads lead somewhere so don't sweat the wrong turns." --me From sml at zfx.com Wed May 19 08:49:47 1999 From: sml at zfx.com (Steve Lane) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:05 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Stress testing? References: Message-ID: <3742C17B.41C6@zfx.com> Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB) wrote: > Does anyone know of a script/module/etc archived somewhere that deals with > stress testing a server and application - sort of bombarding the server > with requests to see how it handles the presure? if you're talking about a -web- server and a CGI script, you may want to look at Lincoln Stein's torture.pl, from TPJ #8, or: http://orwant.www.media.mit.edu/tpj/programs/Issue_08_CGI/torture.pl -- Steve Lane From lnyman at Census.gov Wed May 19 09:00:26 1999 From: lnyman at Census.gov (Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB)) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Stress testing? In-Reply-To: <3742C17B.41C6@zfx.com> Message-ID: Hi, D'oh. Yes, I meant web server and cgi scripts. I need more coffee. Thanks for the tip. -lisa On Wed, 19 May 1999, Steve Lane wrote: > Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB) wrote: > > Does anyone know of a script/module/etc archived somewhere that deals with > > stress testing a server and application - sort of bombarding the server > > with requests to see how it handles the presure? > > if you're talking about a -web- server and a CGI > script, you may want to look at Lincoln Stein's > torture.pl, from TPJ #8, or: > > http://orwant.www.media.mit.edu/tpj/programs/Issue_08_CGI/torture.pl From sarah at cts.wustl.edu Wed May 19 09:14:29 1999 From: sarah at cts.wustl.edu (Sarah Burcham) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name (fwd) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: On Wed, 19 May 1999, elaine ashton wrote: > > Mar Raleigh of the planet ob here! > > as in o.b. wan kenobi? :D sarah, no giggling :) I am Sar Cabrio of planet Tampon. Here me roar!! -sarah p.s. And to think, it was almost Sar Cabrio of Java Almanac. From arielle at patriot.net Wed May 19 10:47:02 1999 From: arielle at patriot.net (A.K. Masters, Frumious Bandersnatch) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name Message-ID: <199905191547.LAA03533@adams.patriot.net> A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text Size: 1050 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://mail.pm.org/archives/marsneedswomen-pm/attachments/19990519/fa28f630/attachment.bat From BackusK at exi.do.losrios.cc.ca.us Wed May 19 10:57:11 1999 From: BackusK at exi.do.losrios.cc.ca.us (Backus, Kris) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name Message-ID: Okay, you sucked me in. I'm Kri Camry of the planet Bananas. "Perl Rocks!" -----Original Message----- From: A.K. Masters, Frumious Bandersnatch [mailto:arielle@patriot.net] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 1999 8:47 AM To: marsneedswomen@happyfunball.pm.org Subject: Re: [mnw.pm] your star wars name I accidentally sent this to Elaine instead of to the whole list... Here's my message again. --Arielle That would make me... Ari Contour of the planet Fakeeggs. My husband Shawn would be Sha Toyotapickup of the planet Birthdaycake. Perl script... I've put one together for y'all! http://adams.patriot.net/~arielle/starwars.html > Ok, just for fun, since it is Star Wars day I am forwarding this from > another girl geek list I am on. I thought it was hilarious seeing the > names go by :) There is a Perl script begging to be written in here > somewhere... > > first three letters of your first name > Car type you are most often in > of > what you last purchased in the grocery-type store. > > I am Rac Prelude of the planet Tempura -- Arielle K. Masters: arielle@bigfoot.com; http://adams.patriot.net/~arielle/ Lucy dog: http://adams.patriot.net/~arielle/lucy/ Herndon Area Dog Coalition (HADC): http://adams.patriot.net/~arielle/hadc/ Genealogy: http://adams.patriot.net/~arielle/geneal/ From stickitinyourear at chokingpear.com Wed May 19 11:03:35 1999 From: stickitinyourear at chokingpear.com (mars) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] perl pages Message-ID: <2.2.32.19990519160335.009145a8@mail.serve.com> hello, just though I would share my favorite perl pages with you all. my friend/boss's perl resources page http://www.serve.com/andrew/perl/sample.html goose's perl poetry: http://www.serve.com/wohlt/ and in case you haven't seen it: perl curses! http://robin.bvsd.k12.co.us/~tstone/curse/ see you in the trees, mars Density 3.9 g/cm^3 Diameter 6,794 km Mass of .11 earth masses (6.4219e23 kg) Orbit 227,940,000 km (1.52 AU) from Sun Martian year 686 days Average temp ~210 K Escape velocity 5.0 km/sec Url www.chokingpear.com Color red From elaine at cts.wustl.edu Wed May 19 16:45:53 1999 From: elaine at cts.wustl.edu (elaine ashton) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] Stress testing? In-Reply-To: <3742C17B.41C6@zfx.com> Message-ID: > Lisa Nyman (GEO-CSB) wrote: > > Does anyone know of a script/module/etc archived somewhere that deals with > > stress testing a server and application - sort of bombarding the server > > with requests to see how it handles the presure? > > if you're talking about a -web- server and a CGI > script, you may want to look at Lincoln Stein's > torture.pl, from TPJ #8, or: > > http://orwant.www.media.mit.edu/tpj/programs/Issue_08_CGI/torture.pl Actually, getting an accurate 'stress' test of a web server is a lot more difficult than it would appear at first. I had to beat up an ultra 5 and an ultra 10 for BBN at one point as they wanted a low end web server and wondered if it could fit the bill. I had an old C program that would go out and get one doc and return the stats after 25k hits. This was fine but it was only for one document. Then I made another out of Perl that took a list of urls and randomised them on the get so that it would seem more 'natural'. Then we moved on to SpecWEB which supposedly emulaates real user stress on the machine. Lincoln's torture.pl works well for testing cgi. I have used it before and usually recommend it to web site developers. Lisa, if you are stress testing Solaris and Netscape enterprise server let me know as there are a lot of things you can do on the server/ns side to tune up performance as well. e. From dha at panix.com Thu May 20 20:21:50 1999 From: dha at panix.com (David H. Adler) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name In-Reply-To: <199905191547.LAA03533@adams.patriot.net>; from A.K. Masters, Frumious Bandersnatch on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:47:02AM -0400 References: <199905191547.LAA03533@adams.patriot.net> Message-ID: <19990520212150.A1870@panix.com> On Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:47:02AM -0400, A.K. Masters, Frumious Bandersnatch wrote: > Perl script... I've put one together for y'all! > http://adams.patriot.net/~arielle/starwars.html Hm... I appear to be Dav Cadillac of the planet Crackers. :-/ So where's the code for this, eh? :-) -- David H. Adler - - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ Chemistry is easy. It's just like witchcraft, but with less newt. - Willow From stimpy at paralynx.com Fri May 21 15:16:48 1999 From: stimpy at paralynx.com (stimpy) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] your star wars name In-Reply-To: <19990520212150.A1870@panix.com> References: <199905191547.LAA03533@adams.patriot.net>; from A.K. Masters, Frumious Bandersnatch on Wed, May 19, 1999 at 11:47:02AM -0400 <199905191547.LAA03533@adams.patriot.net> Message-ID: >Hm... I appear to be Dav Cadillac of the planet Crackers. :-/ Don't feel badly... I seem to have dropped right out of Spaceballs. Jac Vespa of the planet Gouda. I wonder if Mel Brooks knows about this. =) stimps From ziggy at panix.com Wed May 26 11:59:39 1999 From: ziggy at panix.com (Adam Turoff) Date: Thu Aug 5 00:29:06 2004 Subject: [mnw.pm] star wars... In-Reply-To: from "elaine ashton" at May 19, 99 03:30:23 am Message-ID: <199905261659.MAA26311@panix.com> > > I have but one thing to say about star wars.... > Check out the upgrade: http://segfault.org/story.phtml?id=374a532f-03195700 [...] Episode 1.01 also boasts a faster story line, improved explanation for Anakin's birth and a more complete implementation of Darth Maul. Minor tweaks include some to the voice of comic relief character Jar Jar Binks, so that he doesn't sound so much like Roger Rabbit. [...] Z.