If you’ve ever needed a load generator to test system loads you might
want to give Swingbench a try. I’ve used this tool on many occasions to
stress disk subsystems, performance tools, and general new features
within Oracle. Setup can be done within your own $HOME directory,
without pestering a system administrator or DBA.
Since I had a need (testing [...]

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I had really high hopes for Sun’s opensolaris. Everything was good until I needed to get an Internet connection.
While I was easily connected to my local network, which is interesting at best as I have a hacked a bridge between two wireless [...]

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