Category Archives: Mozilla

Compromised.

Posted on June 6, 2007 by bc

My shell account at Dreamhost was compromised and this site was vandalized. It appears this was a wide spread event and a number of other sites hosted at Dreamhost were affected. If you have an account at Dreamhost, I recommend … Continue reading →

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Gumption

Posted on May 19, 2007 by bc

This has been a gumption killing week for me… Sunday The network ports on my old Direct Way 4020 Satellite modem died leaving me entirely without a net connection. Net withdrawal began. Monday Told numerous depressing options for replacing dead … Continue reading →

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Firefox and Thunderbird testing – Script Framework

Posted on March 13, 2007 by bc

The latest installment of my automated testing saga is now available at Script Framework. This outlines the components that I have been using in automated testing and provides an example where a build is downloaded, installed, a profile created, an … Continue reading →

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Firefox and Thunderbird testing – killableprocess.py

Posted on March 9, 2007 by bc

Benjamin Smedberg wrote to point out killableprocess.py which looks like a much more robust tool than timed_run.py. I’ll check it out as a replacement for timed_run.py in my framework as soon as I finish the first round of documentation I … Continue reading →

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Firefox and Thunderbird testing – timed_run.py

Posted on March 8, 2007 by bc

timed_run.py is a modified version of a Python script written by Chris Cooper that manages the execution of external programs with the ability to terminate programs which do not complete within a specified period of time.

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