http://www.justdave.net/dave Random Ramblings of a Sysadmin Tue, 29 Apr 2008 03:43:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en We have this site called build-graphs.mozilla.org.  We seem to have a situation where nobody remembers why it still exists.  Given the number of tinderboxes that still report data to it, I find that hard to believe, so hopefully this blog post will shake out a few people who remember (in ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2008/04/28/wither-build-graphsmozillaorg/ This was just too good to pass up. Halfway in the Digital Age at the Daily WTF UPDATE: Gerv apparently found this a couple days ahead of me and I'm a victim of being behind on my bugmail.  See bug 430508. :) http://www.justdave.net/dave/2008/04/25/a-new-way-to-use-bugzilla/ So this is something we've been wanting for a LONG time, and we finally got it set up as we were staging bugzilla.mozilla.org for last week's upgrade.  The exact code that we're running on bugzilla.mozilla.org is now directly checked out onto the production servers from a version control system.  What's ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2008/04/06/bugzillamozillaorg-now-in-version-control/ So as you may or may not have noticed, the stage.mozilla.org update previously advertised wound up getting partially reverted about a day after it was deployed.  After getting the full production load on it, we wound up crashing it several times again.  There's just not much we can do to ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2008/03/25/stagemozillaorg-take-3/ Migrating stage.mozilla.org to a new host has been in the works for a long time. It's been stalled for a couple months while we worked with the developers of the unionfs filesystem (mostly by providing them with crash reports) to stabilize it to the point where we felt comfortable putting ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2008/03/10/stagemozillaorg-moving-finally/ The Bugzilla project is once again going to be participating in the Google Summer of Code under the Mozilla banner.  Gerv has the details.  If you know of any projects that would be good, be sure to add them to the brainstorming page.  For reference, here's what we signed up ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2008/03/03/bugzilla-summer-of-code-2008/ Justin Sevakis over at Anime News Network a couple days ago posted an open letter to the anime industry.  It's really good and worth a read.  For those who haven't been paying attention to the anime scene, his letter does a really good job of explaining the current state of ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/11/30/how-to-fix-the-anime-industry/ I'm very much a power user.  I use my web browser constantly, for both work and play, and get extensive use out of tabbed browsing.  I keep web pages that are related to the same task in tabs in the same window, and open a new window when I'm shifting ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/11/29/trying-to-find-that-long-lost-tab/ There's a Thunderbird extension that I use that still hasn't been updated since Thunderbird 1.5, that I have a hard time living without.  It'd be awesome if it got updated to work with Thunderbird 2. It's Sync On Arrival.  This one makes Thunderbird download all of the new messages in an ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/11/29/outdated-extensions-are-depressing-sometimes/ Frank Hecker over at the Mozilla Foundation has just posted about the Foundation's new directed giving program, which includes the ability to earmark money for the Bugzilla project when you donate now.  This has been a long time coming.  Every so often we've had people coming into IRC or asking ... http://www.justdave.net/dave/2007/11/20/you-can-donate-money-to-bugzilla-now/