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Posted 1 week, 1 day ago at 23:45. 0 comments
Mike Shaver and I met back in high school during the early ’90s. I took him under my wing and soon taught him the finer points of making taped announcements, how to drop a House of Pain remix on a crowd at *precisely* the right moment, and how to skip class to play cage basketball.
Despite all that, something must have clicked. Since high school, I’ve had the pleasure of working with him at four (!) separate companies. I owe my professional existence to Mr. Shaver, so I’m thrilled today to see him get a little back.
I raise my glass to you tonight, Mike. The handlebars are firmly attached to the bike now, my friend.
Current Tunes: Ananda Project - Cascades of Colour | Filed under Friends, Mozilla, Nostalgia
Posted 1 week, 5 days ago at 14:20. 4 comments
2 weeks ago, the Litmus servers were updated from RHEL4 to RHEL5. The dry run on the staging install was without incident, but soon after we upgraded the production server, we started receiving complaints about blank pages being served. A quick check of the error logs indicated that the blank pages corresponded to httpd child process segfaults:
[Sat Jun 14 13:39:18 2008] [notice] child pid 31570 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
Normally, this issue would have landed squarely on Mozilla IT’s plate, but they were a little busy last week. Continue Reading…
Current Tunes: Richard Durand and Paul Van Dyk - Essential Mix - 2008-06-14 | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla, Software
Posted 3 weeks, 1 day ago at 12:01. 4 comments
This post is primarily directed at my family, friends, and anyone who I’ve helped to install Firefox over the years. Hopefully my co-workers already know how awesome we are.
A new version of Firefox is coming out on Tuesday. Casual internet users may be asking themselves, “I already have a web browser. Why should I update to Firefox 3?” There’s lots of great stuff in Firefox 3, but several of the new features bear special highlighting for casual users:
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Current Tunes: Casual, Rock Marciano, Vordual Mega, & Tragedy Khadafi - Think Differently | Filed under Build/Release, Family, Firefox, Friends, Mozilla, Software
Posted 3 weeks, 2 days ago at 10:53. 1 comment
I’ve spent the last day or so updating the existing Selenium test suite for Litmus in advance of landing the new cloning code for bug 362489.
In the past, testing with Selenium has entailed firing up Firefox 2 because the Selenium IDE had not yet been updated to work with the Firefox 3 betas/release candidates. I was pleasantly surprised yesterday to find a new version 1.0 beta 2 available for download that has been updated to support Firefox 3. Not a moment too soon either!
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Current Tunes: The Irresistible Force - It's Tomorrow Already | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla, QA, Software
Posted 1 month, 1 week ago at 10:29. 0 comments
Little know fact: Weezer fans are 60% more likely to drink microbrew beer.
Glad to see someone gaining traction from our idea, even if we could not.
Current Tunes: Above & Beyond - Trance Around The World 217 - Guest: Jay Lumen - 2008-05-23 | Filed under Mozilla, Music
Posted 1 month, 2 weeks ago at 11:40. 0 comments
Today is my first day back from paternity leave for Isla. On my todo list:
- cleanup my desk
- file expenses for my last work trip
- catchup on bugmail…so very much bugmail
- survive
Current Tunes: Above & Beyond - Trance Around The World 215 - Guest: Solarstone - 2008-05-09 | Filed under Mozilla
Posted 2 months, 1 week ago at 11:01. 0 comments
I spent the last week getting debug+leak testing slaves setup on our 3 key platforms for Moz2. This moves us a little closer to build system parity with current trunk development.
I’ve put my setup notes in the wiki to aid the next person.
Current Tunes: Crystal Method - Roll It Up | Filed under Build/Release, Mozilla
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 09:19. 1 comment
Xylon:~ ccooper$ uname -a
Darwin Xylon.local 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar 4 21:17:34 PST 2008; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
Xylon:~ ccooper$ history|awk ‘{a[$2]++ } END{for(i in a){print a[i] ” ” i}}’|sort -rn|head
164 ssh
76 ls
72 cd
50 cvs
16 rm
15 less
12 emacs
10 sudo
9 scp
6 vi
Current Tunes: LL Cool J - I Shot Ya (Remix) | Filed under Mozilla, Software
Posted 2 months, 3 weeks ago at 16:33. 0 comments
Thanks to justdave for creating the new LeakTest and UnitTest tinderbox trees, we no longer have to wade through the morass that is MozillaTest to find these test results, which will hopefully help in getting more eyes on them.
The LeakTest tree will house results from our debug+leak+unittest boxes as they come online. Only Linux and Mac are available right now, and both tend to wedge themselves after a few cycles. Windows coverage is stalled on getting enough storage attached to cope with the ginormous log files.
The UnitTest tree will house, surprise, unittest staging boxes, but also any new unittest boxes we’re in the process of bringing up, or any production unittest boxes that need to be alone with themselves for a little while, e.g. WinXP.
Current Tunes: Thievery Corporation - Lebanese Blonde | Filed under Build/Release, Mozilla
Posted 3 months, 1 week ago at 09:52. 0 comments
It appears there were some issues with the migration last night. Litmus and other services (e.g. Bugzilla) are currently experiencing connection issues. We have top men working on it right now.
UPDATE: we’re back now.
Also, in case people hadn’t noticed, Vlad was nice enough to send me a copy of the tiny dino head he used for his fancy new icons. The Litmus favicon is now sporting it too.
Current Tunes: Beef Wellington - From The One 2 | Filed under Litmus, Mozilla
