Re: Get You FREE CD-ROM today

Nicholas J. Leon (nicholas@binary9.net)
Sun, 6 Sep 1998 21:39:48 -0400 (EWT)


On Sun, 6 Sep 1998, Charlie Ross wrote:

# [www.free-cdrom.com]
# >Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows NT enhancement CD-ROM.
#
# Hahaha.. I cannot conceive of a worse place than this to edvertise!
# hahah you may as well be advertising bulk fresh meat on
# alt.vegitarianism.advocacy! hahah!

Yeah. I think this is probably a sick joke of someone's. However, out of
curiosity, I decided to do some web server benchmarking of their system.
Unfortunately, I don't believe it survived the testing from my T1 (no
doubt because its a MS box of some sort) ...

nicholas(/2)@peacock [105 /<1>people/nicholas] > ab -n 1000000 -c 500 \
http://www.free-cdrom.com/
This is ApacheBench, Version 1.1
Copyright (c) 1996 Adam Twiss, Zeus Technology Ltd,
http://www.zeustech.net/
Copyright (c) 1998 The Apache Group, http://www.apache.org/

Benchmarking www.free-cdrom.com (be patient)...
Server timed out

:) But hey, if they didn't want a technical evaluation of their system,
they shouldn't have posted crap like that here.

G'day!

-- n i c h o l a s j l e o n
/ elegance through simplicity /
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/ simplicity is elegant / mailto:nicholas@binary9.net

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