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Ownership
April 29th, 2011 by rstrong
For around 6 years back in the late 80′s through the early 90′s I managed (my first stint as a manager) a telecom and datacom department for a site with 10 buildings and at its maximum 1500 employees. One of my pet peeves was not having a UPS for the telecom system since if there [...]
Application Update File Fragmentation (update)
April 20th, 2011 by rstrong
Back on December 4th, 2010 I blogged about Application Update file fragmentation and the new lack thereof and wanted to write a quick update after checking both my Mac and Windows systems. On my Mac, using hfsdebug (download is no longer available), there were 199 files fragmented ranging from 5 fragments to 874 fragments with [...]
Why data is good and how it helped me deal with Firefox Frankenbuilds
April 14th, 2011 by rstrong
The updater has always had a problem on Windows (likely other platforms as well) where an update doesn’t update all of the files. The latest occurrence of this is on the Firefox 3.6 branch in Bug 639542 – Crash [@ js_DeepBail(JSContext*) ] at address 0×204 due to frankenbuild. Anurag Phadke was able to get data [...]
regarding new nightly name…
April 14th, 2011 by rstrong
I’ve always been kinda partial to “meanwhile,_little_orphan_annie_is_sitting_in_a_hole_by_the_roadside”