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JMeter Config Element 'CSV Data Set Config' notes

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This post is for any other poor souls that can't figure out how to get the values accessed by the CSV Data Set Config configuration element in JMeter into the HTTP Request Sampler (or any other Sampler). For some reason the JMeter User Manual page for the CSV Data Set Config doesn't explain this. The key to getting your values used by your Sampler is to reference your values in the sampler in the following format: ${variable_name} This is shown in the screen captures on the left. Simple when you know how :)

Viigo wishlist

I do like Viigo quite a lot. It's a free news reader for Pocket PC. You can choose from a huge list of predefined channels or add your own if you know the feed URL. You can also add news search feeds, let it find feeds from a specified web page, and other methods of getting feeds. (Hungry? ;) I've already ramped up a fairly long wishlist however of features that I'd like to see in the next version. Here they are. 1. Be able to set a maximum number of news items per channel. At the moment only a max for all channels is possible. This means channels like BBC news that have loads of news items end up pushing items off of other channels. 2. I'd prefer if the application didn't crash when I rotate my screen from portrait to landscape or vice versa. It doesn't always happen, but often enough! 3. Then I'd like to see some kind of mechanism that ensured your changes and updates are permanently saved immediately they're made. Thus ensuring you don't lose all

Intel Atom processor gives 500 MHz for less than a Watt

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These little critters sure look fantastic. Or at least *sound* fantastic. I could do with my TyTN II's battery life being a bit better, and although it never will be maybe it's successor's will!.. or maybe a generation or two down the line. When I upgrade at least Check out the article for the juicy details of these eco-friendly power-punchers. clipped from www.dailytech.com Hardware Thinking Small: New Intel Architecture Champions Sub 1 Watt x86 Brandon Hill & Kristopher Kubicki - March 2, 2008 8:12 PM Silverthorne , a two-issue processor designed from the ground up, is now known as the Intel Atom processor. Atom processors based on Silverthorne are aimed at Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs). Silverthorne -based Atom processors heading for MIDs will have a TDP ranging from 0.6W to 2.5W and will top out at 1.8GHz.  Sources inside Intel hint that the 0.6W version of the processor reaches just over 500 MHz.