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A question of ethics

Alessandro Crugnola general

I really can’t believe how some people can be so disonest!
Today a guy reported me that someone was selling my ImageGallery for $700 NZ dollars at CSS Marketplace.
Ok, it’s not the first time I receive this kind of reports but this agency is really incredible!
I visited their site and i found that under “Our Works” section there are so many flash examples I already know.. my flash puzzle, my flash image gallery, the old macromedia video gallery example etc etc…
take a look at the thieves:
http://www.thstudio.co.nz/index.php

My first gadget

Alessandro Crugnola general , , ,

I was playing around the Windows Vista public beta 2 and I spent some time reading about the new gadgets.
At the end I did a first test creating a very simple gadget for measuring computer drives free space.
Give it a list of drives you want to take under control and it will display them into the gadget’s window.

Installation

– Download the file
– Double click on it
P.S. It requires Windows Vista beta 2 🙂

Download

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Windows Vista public beta 2

Alessandro Crugnola general , ,

I noticed today that Microsoft published public beta 2 of Windows Vista
I agree with the contract, select the download method (wow, 3.5 Gb!!), and select the location…
… and I got this error:

We are currently experiencing a high level of demand and cannot process your request at this time.

Has been someone able to get the beta?
I’m really interested in the new Windows 🙂
P.S. I saw also that Office 2007 beta is available for mere mortals 🙂
Windows Vista public beta 2
Office 2007 preview

Stress test with apache ab

Alessandro Crugnola general , ,

I didn’t know at all apache ab sine yesterday when a guy who is working with us told me about this tool included in apache distribution.
Then I used with my site on localhost using this command line:

ab -n 9000 -c 900 localhost:8080/index.php

I got this results:

 Completed 900 requests Completed 1800 requests Completed 2700 requests Completed 3600 requests Completed 4500 requests Completed 5400 requests Completed 6300 requests Completed 7200 requests Completed 8100 requests Finished 9000 requests

 Server Software:        Apache/2.0.55 Server Hostname:        localhost Server Port:            8080

 Document Path:          /index.php Document Length:        37949 bytes

 Concurrency Level:      10 Time taken for tests:   407.890625 seconds Complete requests:      9000 Failed requests:        25    (Connect: 0, Length: 25, Exceptions: 0) Write errors:           0 Total transferred:      342093375 bytes HTML transferred:       340598850 bytes Requests per second:    22.06 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request:       453.212 [ms] (mean) Time per request:       45.321 [ms] (mean, across all concurrent requests) Transfer rate:          819.03 [Kbytes/sec] received

 Connection Times (ms)               min  mean[+/-sd] median   max Connect:        0    0   2.7      0      78 Processing:   140  452 217.8    359    2265 Waiting:       31  402 194.0    328    2218 Total:        140  452 218.0    359    2265

 Percentage of the requests served within a certain time (ms)   50%    359   66%    390   75%    421   80%    515   90%    750   95%    968   98%   1156   99%   1281  100%   2265 (longest request)

Mmhh.. 25 errors with 9000 connection and 900 concurrency level?
I must admit I never used stress test tool at all by my own, just one time I see it used when working for a big java based project.
Do you use some kind of benchmarking tool?