Testing is Rocket Science Not Brain Surgery

One definition of the word Ethereal is “lacking material substance”, the Ethereal(www.ethereal.com) network protocol analyzer however; is a true masterpiece of the open source, freeware movement.  Why it isn’t a commercial product is beyond me, maybe I’ll never understand the whole “free” software movement.  To be honest I don’t want too, and refuse to change my […]

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The need to create a file of a certain size to request from a webserver in order to simultate some network traffic  had me waxing nostalgically today.  Remember the command-line?  I suggest everyone dust off their OS reference manuals once in a while, if for no other reason than the novelty.  It amazes me that even […]

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