06.29.07 - 05:56am
As many of you may know, we released a major update to offer 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.4. This is significant to the infrastructure for a few reasons. First off, all of these updates will be *full* updates, i.e. full browser downloads - no 300k mar file. That puts a large load on our mirror network (nothing they can’t handle 
). Second, as people update from1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.4, we anticipate people will need to update addons for compatibility reasons.
We released at 3pm PDT yesterday - here are some of the stats so far:
* Just under 1 million people have been updated from 1.5.0.12 -> 2.0.0.4
* We are updating people at a rate of 20-30 per second (FF2 download rate was about 30/second)
* Mirrors are seeing about a 2-3x increase in bandwidth
I expect to see increased load throughout the day, but so far so good! Huge thanks to webdev with their help to optimize addons.mozilla.org - it’s been a huge win for this release.
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05.15.07 - 02:14pm
Recently there have been a lot of cube moves at MoCo headquarters - IT included. We are back upstairs in building K, but the sun was creating an issue for a few of my guys. Enter Cosco to the rescue:
Kinda like their own IT oasis. Umbrellas make people happy - I mean, what else could get Aravind smiling like this
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05.06.07 - 06:53pm
Not sure if people noticed given how well the team has been doing, but I’ve been a bit hard to reach for the past few weeks. The reason is there is a new addition to the Fitzhugh Family - Ryan Mason Fitzhugh born on 4/22/07 at 9:15am. The whole family is doing great, and while I’ve really enjoyed the time off, I miss my Mozilla friends
I’ll be back at work on Monday - looking forward to going into the 07 Intern season.
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10.12.06 - 12:43pm
In general I am not a big fan of Simulators for flight training (yes, they have their place for procedural training in areas such as IFR), but after seeing a side-by-side of the new MS Flight Sim X, I am pretty impressed…http://www.gamespot.com/pc/sim/microsoftflightsimulatorx/video_player.html?id=JnBlxWH65bsFvj_Y
XPlane is still better
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10.11.06 - 09:26pm
We (IT) put up a new blog server to help consolidate and provide a supported and maintained blog server. Expect to see a lot more blogs showing up from MozCorp people here…should be fun.
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07.11.06 - 08:10am
Here at Mozilla, we have been pretty happy VMWare customers (aside from some of the p2v migration hell). We are moving quite a bit of our infrastructure to VMs and it seems to be working out well.
Enter VMWare 3.0.
You might ask “why would you want to use the first rev a such a new release”? Good point - problem is, VMWare only supports one, that’s right one 4 port ethernet card (Intel quad port). No problem - I order our servers with the supported Intel PRO/1000 Quad Port Server Adapter. This adapter has worked fine in other older boxes so I have no reason to think it won’t work. Well, Intel has discontinued the “MT” version of the cards, and only sells the “GT” version of the cards. After 5 days of tedious interaction with VMware web support, we find why 2.5.3 won’t see the card - 2.5.3 only supports the out of date and impossible to get “MT” version of the card.
VMWare 2.5.3 only supports one quad port card that you can’t get, with no ETA on “GT” version support for 2.5.x - great - guess we’ll try 3.0. So we get 3.0 install and it recognizes the “GT” version of the card - yay.
Now the real fun starts - I go to the web admin console that I have used in the past to configure the host - wait - there is nothing here?!? No network configuration, no VM config options, nothing! It appears VMWare has moved all the configuration to a .Net, windows-only application called “Infrastructure Client”. I use a Mac, much of my team runs Linux. Why in the world would you take a web-based, platform independent configuration tool and move it to a .Net application?
So you ask why I need Parallels to run VMWare? That’s why (I’m on a Mac, and need a Windows OS to configure VMWare). And it sucks. I think VMWare has a really great product and one that can help scale our infrastructure, but why focus the admin tools on just one OS? Seems the whole company is built around virtualization and cross-platform support, but has taken a step backwards with this change in 3.0. Hopefully VMWare will fix this issue by producing upcoming versions of Infrastructure Client by supporting it on different platforms.
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06.23.06 - 09:17am
We are moving colo’s! Exciting, but a lot of coordination, planning and work. The new location is in a cage with 2x the space and right of refusal on more if needed. Furthermore we are quadrupling our bandwidth with a new network architecture - thanks Matthew! More to come, but here are some initial pictures of the cage (still being built).
Pictures
P.S. I wanted to thank Meer/SVColo for all their services and help over the years. They have been great to work with, and we’ll be sad to go.
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