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Kevin Rose Load Tests Gmail
SishGupta writes "Load Testing Gmail - fillmybox@gmail.com
A few weeks ago, Kevin Rose of the The Screen Savers decided to load test Google's new email service, Gmail. He asked everyone to email him their favourite 5MB attachments to 'fillmybox@gmail.com.'
The test Gmail account is now 102% maxed out.
You can read about the test and the results at Kevin Rose.com (his weblog)."
Bet he wasn't expecting that!
And I was thinking the fact I was at 13% was quite impressive.
Jay | http://oldos.org
I've had little success with GMail's "auto ignore" option. Check this mozilla screengrab out:
http://etrade.malformed.org/Screenshot.png
With a gmail address of "fillmybox", I wonder what kind of file attachments he received!
Why does anyone listen to him...he's half security, half pirate, half hacker.
That's more then 100%!!!
~Eric
...may the Gmail privacy flaming begin!
The preceding message was based on actual events. Only the names, locations and events have been changed.
certainly an inventive way to get a response.
Why, just last night I wrote a little program that load tests Google.
Regards,
Arthur MyDoom, Jr.
"In spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank
is to let everyone on Slashdot have an account, at once.
--
# Canmephians for a better Linux Kernel
$Stalag99{"URL"}="http://stalag99.net";
...Kevin and co-host of the day finish talking about fillmybox@gmail.com and switch back over to Sarah for the news...
/me ROFL
Sarah: "Fill my box"
Kevin: "I will later"
Co-host of the day turns red.
Any words Kevin?
Im dreaming ofa big bndwdth, That can resist the
porn2.mog
porn3.mpg
Ahh.. gotta love when they put the offer out there for you.
Hmmm.
Haven't heard that from the wife in ages!
Thanks, folks, I'll be here all week! Tip your waitresses!
[beavisandbutthead]
uh huh huh
uh huh huh
"fill my box"
uh huh huh
[/beavisandbutthead]
The question has finally been answered.
Why is Gmail the best free webmail?
ANSWER: Your inbox goes to 102%!!!
If you have kids named Arthur MyDoom, are you going to stick to the old standard (Arthur MyDoom the 3rd, the 4th, etc), or the new approach - Arthur MyDoom.B, Arthur MyDoom.C, Arthur MyDoom.D...?
That great sigh of disappointment you hear is the sound of thousands of porn site administrators realizing that one of the gmail account names they really wanted has been taken...
-S
--- What parts of "shall make no law", "shall not be infringed", and "shall not be violated" don't you understand?
[Peter Griffin]
eh heh heh
eh heh heh
"fill my box"
eh heh heh
eh heh heh
"diarrhea"
eh heh heh
[/Peter Griffin]
Montreal - Best city to live in!
SI rules. Of course it makes sense to have water freeze at 32 degrees instead of 0, and boil at 212 instead of 100... And why the hell would you want to mess with turning 1 kilometer into 1,000 meters, when you can turn 1 mile into 5,280 feet! And to realize that 1 liter is 1,000 milliliters is stupid, since we can instead make 1 gallon (US, liquid - or 0.86 gallon US dry - or 0.83 gallon UK) into 128 fl.oz. I rest my case.
Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur.
Yes, I know, -1 Offtopic, but I'd appreciate a hookup! ninenine_99@yahoo.com
Thanks!
2^10 bytes would be a kilobyte. 2^20 bytes is a megabyte. I see your point, but I must ask what you suggest should be used instead?
Some Suggestions:
I've discovered a remarkable proof, but this margin is too small to contain it...
If I ever met someone who said or wrote "gibibyte" and "mibibyte" I would surely be inclined towards kicking them in the face and crotch.
That is some wholly ludicrous shit. Everyone knows it is thoroughly ridiculous. They sound like the squeaks of a retarded baby. ME BI BYTE! KI BI! GI BI!
To know the heinous nature of these words you must look at who benefits from them. It is clear that by redefining "gigabyte" the only people who benefit are hard drive manufacturers. In the ensuing confusion they can stop delivering anything like what they advertise and just make up the capacities of their drives. Recently I purchased two "160 gigabyte" hard drives. One of them was about 156 gigabytes while the other turned out to be about 149 gigabytes. I trust both my BIOS and my OS before I trust hard drive marketing and they say I'm getting a bit of the shaft. This is called deception. Lies. Widely agreed upon as immoral and harmful behavior. That is what "kibibyte" is all about.
Tim
Omnia vestra castrorum habetur nobis.
Well, the most interesting data point still is the "1.44 MB" floppy disk: It has 1.44*1000 "KB", that is, 1.44*1000*1024 Bytes (2 sides * 80 tracks/side * 18 sectors/track * 512 Bytes/sector; the usable space is of course slightly less due to file system overhead). Therefore even with the new binary prefixes (KiB = Kibibytes = 2^10 Bytes, etc.) you have problems: It's neither true 1.44 MB (meaning 1.44*10^6 Bytes), nor 1.44 MiB (meaning 1.44*2^20 Bytes). Maybe the right term would be "1.44 KKiB" (1.44 Kilokibibytes).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
It's crazy. I wasted a few minutes last week searching through my Gmail spam archive trying to find a word that didn't appear anywhere, and came up with very few successes. If nothing else, Gmail is probably the world's biggest and most accurate archive of spam.
Wow, you just came up with a new form of Googlewhacking! I'm impressed!