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
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.
I was working late last night debugging the lingering failure in the bug 419759. Sometime after midnight, I had one of those ideas that really only makes sense when you’re on the wrong side of midnight: I made some waffle batter. The payoff came this morning.
If you’ve never had a waffle made with a nice, yeast-based batter, and you happen to own a waffle iron…OMG, you’ve got to try it.
The only thing I can possibly add to the recipe is this: because they are so light and fluffy AND crispy, the batter goes a long way, yielding more waffles than even a gluttonous man like myself can consume in a single sitting, even when assisted by a very pregnant wife. If you want to freeze the leftovers, it’s totally doable, but if you want them to stay crispy (which is also totally doable), lay the excess waffles out in a single layer on a flat surface until they cool, and then freeze them straight away. Stacking the fresh, hot waffles at any point will cause them to soggify by trapping the escaping steam.
Enjoy!
I’m not really sure how it happened. All the points from my previous post still applied, but somehow my winter ultimate team managed to win its final “playoff” game last night, landing us in second-to-last spot rather than dead last.
Been there, done that, got the yellow t-shirt.
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.
IT has announced that there will be some brief (~1 hr) Litmus downtime tonight between 8pm-12am PDT as the host VM gets moved to a new storage array. More information can be found in the Scheduled Maintenance newspost.
My friend and co-worker, Mike Shaver gives a great interview over at howsoftwareisbuilt.com about just how Mozilla operates and what motivates us. I highly recommend it to anyone who’s had the misfortune of listening to me try to describe what Mozilla does.
| Tommy: | Did you hear I finally graduated? |
| Richard: | Yeah, and just a shade under a decade too…all right. |
| Tommy: | You know a lot of people go to college for seven years. |
| Richard: | I know, they’re called doctors. |
Just in time for 2.4 too, where it will quickly be obsoleted. Sigh.
Sorry I haven’t written much in the past month. Could you even tell? Anyway, there’s a reason.
I’m pretty reliant on an internet connection. I work from home, I have an IP phone for work, I have a Tivo that needs to talk to the internet to get its program data, I have a son that loves to watch old Sesame Street clips on YouTube…etc, etc. We had been connected via Bell at the old house. The service was decent, but recently we’d started having problems with random charges or long distance packages being added to our bill without our consent. As the base monthly cost crept up, we resolved to go with something new and non-Bell when we moved. (Aside: we are, in fact, all moved now, and the old house has been sold. More on that later.)
I did some research, and had decided to go with a bundle from Rogers since we already had cell phone service with them. I arranged everything to be setup on the day before our move (Feb. 25th), and that’s where our tale of epic fail begins.
I won’t bore you with the details, I’ll just bore you with the summary instead: between Rogers and Bell, it took them from Feb. 25th until Mar. 20th to get all our various services running, with internet being the last one to come up on the 20th. The details are somewhat comical (if you don’t happen to be me) and I’m happy to share them over beer at some point.
Despite initiating the entire fail chain, Rogers actually salvaged a lot of good will at the end of the process by getting their act together, but I’m not very impressed with either company or their customer service to be honest. Thanks to my parents and in-laws for letting me work at their houses over the course of this fiasco, although I hope I don’t have to commute in order to telecommute again any time soon.
Gotta love a two-party system.
This will likely be the last year I play winter ultimate. Of the 3 years I’ve played in Ottawa, twice I’ve been among the players chosen to change teams in a mid-season effort to rebalance the league. In each case, I’ve gone from a strong team that I enjoyed playing on, to a subpar team that had trouble winning a single game…even after rebalancing!
I think I understand why I’m (seemingly) always chosen to change teams. I’m not that strong a player — I’ve never captained a team, I’ve only been to a handful of tournaments, and I’m getting older — but I am athletic, I am consistent, and I am level-headed. The teams I end up on lack most/all of those things.
This year has been particularly frustrating because not only is my team lacking the above factors, but it also seemingly has no desire to get better, or even to compete. We’ve managed to tie one game since I’ve been moved over, making our record an abysmal 0-9-1. This team is happy when we score in double digits. For reference, only once this season have our opponents scored less than 20 points.
What’s most annoying is that we’ve had our chances to win some games: up by 5 with 10 minutes left in one game, up by 2 with 2 minutes left in another. My personal favorite: in one game we were down by 1 with 2 minutes left. This is a situation where you’d expect everyone on the team to be fired up and ready, or at the very least paying attention, but it took us more than a minute to even field a full line. I was so disgusted after that loss that I couldn’t even go out for beer afterward. That’s pretty serious.
I think I’ll take a pass next year.
