Bob Clary's ramblings about Mozilla, everything and nothing
No matter where you go, Jesse’s been there already.
During some top site testing of about 7,500 pages with a debug Minefield build on Linux over the weekend, I ran into the following assertions ordered by decreasing count. This should give some idea of the frequency of each in the wild.
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 you change your passwords for your shell and email and check your web content for modifications.
I’ve cleaned up the mess (I think). Although as far as I can tell the Spider.xpi was not modified, I have generated a new version of Spider 0.0.2.7 to force an update to any Spider users.
This has been a gumption killing week for me…
The network ports on my old Direct Way 4020 Satellite modem died leaving me entirely without a net connection.
Net withdrawal began.
Told numerous depressing options for replacing dead modem before managing to get the “upgrade” option without resetting my contract period but with a potential 2 business week delay on receiving the new modem.
Over to sister’s to take advantage of the Hughesnet system I got her last year…
Updated her system, downloaded virus|spyware scanners etc, scanned her machine to make sure no spyware, rootkits, bots on the local network.
Hit the new HughesNet Fair Access Policy (FAP) limit on her “consumer” grade account. FAP throttled my connection to about 2KB/s with no recharge for 24 hours.
Scheduled delivery and installation of new HughesNet 7000S Satellite modem for Thursday!
FAP still in effect at sister’s.
Satellite modem installed and net withdrawal symptoms receed.
Back to work!
Desk collapses onto the floor while rearranging office to discourage Miss Kitty from using my desk and possibly causing additional hardware failures. Fortunately only monitors were involved and were not damaged.
Found sturdy tables at Office Depot to use for work surfaces. (Staple’s tables were crap and staff were no help, but Office Depot’s tables were pretty sturdy and the staff ere very helpful. Thanks!).
Finish rearranging office
Backed up laptop across all other machines.
Back to work.
Discovered that my mozilla local mail folder had been wiped sometime on Wednesday…
Realized had wiped all good copies of the mozilla local mail folder.
I hope next week is better.
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 extension installed and a simple test that the extension works is performed.
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 have been supposed to write about my test framework since … like … forever.