Ordered a New Laptop - Dell Studio 17 - Running Ubuntu

I just ordered a new laptop for home. This will be used as my workstation/desktop replacement.

Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope comes out April 23, and this machine will get a fresh copy. I'm hoping all my hardware works good with it.

Specs:

• Dell Studio 17
• 64 bit
• Intel Core 2 Duo T6400 (2.00GHz/800Mhz FSB/2MB cache)
• 4GB Shared Dual Channel DDR2 at 800MHz
• 256MB ATI Mobility Radeon HD 3650
• 250GB SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)
• Glossy widescreen 17.0 inch display (1920x1200)
• 8X CD/DVD Burner
• Intel WiFi Link 5100 802.11agn Half Mini-Card
• Back-lit Keyboard

I will post again to tell how the hardware compatibility with Ubuntu and Linux is.

Did You Know?

"We are currently preparing students for jobs that don’t yet exist, using technologies that haven’t yet been invented, in order to solve problems we don’t even know are problems yet."

Did You Know 3.0 (video)

... just something to ponder.

Pylot Version 1.22 Released - Open Source Web Performance Tool

I just did a release of Pylot, the open source web/http performance tool. You can download it here:
http://www.pylot.org/download.html

New features in Pylot 1.22:

• restructured code base
• custom timer groups
• socket timeout setting
• misc bug fixes

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release!

If you have any problems to report, please post to the discussion forum at: http://clearspace.openqa.org/community/pylot

Finally Got Me A Hackergotchi

My Designer friend whipped up my hackergotchi in about 10 mins. Always wanted one of these things:

Zazzle - Business Cards Are Fun To Design

I was bored and played with Zazzle for a little while today. Here is the business card design I came up with:
... not gonna order any, but it was fun to design.

Pylot - It Had To Start Somewhere

I just found a scrap of paper on my desk. It is the original version 0.0 of Pylot from May 2007 (notice it all fits on 1 printed page). I'm just posting this to look back on someday.

www.pylot.org

Pylot Version 1.21 Released - Open Source Web Performance Tool

I just did a release of Pylot, the open source web/http performance tool. You can download it here:
http://www.pylot.org/download.html

New features in Pylot 1.21:

• new HTTP transport layer, using urllib2
• new blocking mode (stdout blocked until test finishes, results are returned as XML)
• added redirect following
• re-implemented cookie handling
• compatible with Python 2.6 for Windows
• new HTTP debugging mode
• new global config file
• better message logging
• misc bug fixes

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release! Special thanks to:

• Vasil Vangelovski
• Adam Smith
• Mark Ransom

Most testing was done on Windows XP and Ubuntu Linux 8.10.

If you have any problems to report, please post to the discussion forum at:
http://clearspace.openqa.org/community/pylot