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 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 8 months, 4 weeks ago at 11:26. 0 comments
I’m adding my name to the growing list of Mozilla people attending FSOSS 2007 in Toronto at the end of October. I missed out on FSOSS last year, and everyone involved seems to have had a blast. It’s rare to have a relevant conference within VIA1 striking distance of Ottawa, so I’m taking a stab this year.
What will I be doing? Well, first and foremost, the Mozilla QA team has a testday scheduled for the Friday, Oct. 26th with a focus on OS Integration on Vista & Mac, with a secondary focus on Installer testing. Between sessions, I’ll be plugging into testday, and hopefully leading an impromptu remote testday in conjunction with Club Moz @ Seneca. It’s no secret that Seneca has also been a fruitful recruiting ground for us in the past, so I’ll also be chatting with students and generally trying to get people excited about plugging in to the Mozilla community.
Hope to see lots of folks there.
Posted 9 months, 4 weeks ago at 11:01. 0 comments
As shaver pointed out in his recent spate of blogging, the good folks at ActiveState announced the Open Komodo Project last week. As a long-time user of the Komodo IDE myself, this is exciting news. For me, working at Mozilla is as much a philosophical choice as anything else, so it’s always encouraging to find another company that gets “it,” where “it” is the Open Web.
Congrats to ActiveState on their announcement. Their community site offers more info about how to get involved if you’re so inclined.
Current Tunes: Mute Math - Noticed | Filed under Mozilla, Open Web, Software
