In the everyday grind of work sometimes a funny video can help get you out of your funk. I was introduced to the Very First IT Technician and found it pretty humorous. The video looks at how the transition was made from the scroll to the book.
The Very First IT Technician
Randy Paush passed away on July 25, 2008 after a long battle with cancer. He has helped inspire millions of of people including myself. He has become famous for his Last Lecture which was recorded shortly after he was diagnosed with cancer. If you have not watched it I highly recommend it. I guarantee that you will find at least one thing that will help you in everyday life. I also highly recommend watching his video on time management. We all need help with on that subject.
Administrators usually find some need in their daily activities to try and stress test a server to see how much load it can handle. It can also assist with performance testing by seeing how a applications reacts on servers that are at 100 percent utilization.
Iometer has been around since 1998 and we developed by Intel. The program went doormat for a long period of time and was given to the open source community in 2001. It was relaunched in 2003 and is developed by a international group of individuals.
Iometer is supported on several different platforms including Linux, Netware, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows. There are several different parameters you can enter in order to produce a load. You can also set the run time, ramp up time, and the number of workers used to generate the load.
Project Web Site
http://www.iometer.org/
Project Screenshots
http://www.iometer.org/doc/screenshots.html
