Thanks for the combined efforts of HNers to make it disappear :-)
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#73I'm not sure if the submitter created BlinkLink, but I hope the author had fun making it. It's a neat idea, and it exploits human psychology in clever ways. I like how the reward for tweeting increases as the number of views remaining goes down. Also, people are driven to share the link with their friends immediately since they know views remaining are scarce. That said, it's pretty easy to mirror content. In case th…
I find it very interesting how the fact that making the rules of the game "obvious" changes the way people approach. If you think about it, almost all content on the internet follows this rule: share-or-die. But here, after slapping the die part on the face, people are forcing themselves to post the link on twitter. Very cool!
I would hardly describe requiring people to spam as cool. More like fucking annoying. Also you have no idea what the content will be until you have propagated the spam, it could just be penis pills.
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#74Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily. ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request:…
Are you in the habit of running load tests on other people's websites without warning? Remind me to never tell you when I'm working on something.
I'm not condoning this, but if your website can be taken down by one machine with ab, you're doing it wrong.
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#75Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily. ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request:…
Are you in the habit of running load tests on other people's websites without warning? Remind me to never tell you when I'm working on something.
In this specific case it's not exactly the same as running a generic load test against some website, given the advertised feature of this specific website.
You're intentionally making it too generic to portray the guy as an asshole, when that's not how things went down. Very politician-like. Yuck.
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#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
What is ab?
Don't use it for actual benchmarking though, it has lots of known problems. Use something like: https://github.com/wg/wrk
wrk looks interesting. Have used http://tsung.erlang-projects.org/
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#77Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily. ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request:…
What is ab?
The difference between benchmarking and DoS is intent. It could be taken the wrong way and now it's a felony.
"Three Felonies a Day" via https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...
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#78Kinda feel like a jerk on this one. Wasn't really expecting to be able to nuke it so easily. ab -c 30 -n 3000 http://www.blinklink.me/b/4XIxfoeF4C0 Concurrency Level: 30 Time taken for tests: 93.802 seconds Complete requests: 3000 Failed requests: 2137 (Connect: 0, Receive: 0, Length: 2137, Exceptions: 0) Write errors: 0 Requests per second: 31.98 [#/sec] (mean) Time per request: 938.024 [ms] (mean) Time per request:…
A friend said it came back "Retry later"
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#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
Without having to open the man page: $ whatis ab ab (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool Or with bsd-games installed: $ wtf ab ab: ab (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
Is there a similar tool to see what a certain option in a command does, without opening the man page?
If you just type the command in you should see a list of options and what they do.
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#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is there a similar tool to see what a certain option in a command does, without opening the man page?
If you just type the command in you should see a list of options and what they do.
Probably best not to try this on any systems you care about if the command is completely unknown. killall on Solaris might have some unintended consequences.