Archive for October, 2006
Are we your favourite SysAdmins of the Year?
Last week I was nominated for SysAdmin of the Year. Thanks, Gunnar, that was very kind of you. I was one of the first 2500 entries, so I got a free t-shirt. Cool. This week, Doug also nominated me, again with nothing but kind words. Thanks, guys, the appreciation is [...]
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Talking to live humans
Some folks send an e-mail to webmaster@eclipse.org, thinking no one will ever read it. It’s always funny to read their reaction when they do get a reply:
“Oh, I didn’t think anyone would actually read this.”
“Thank you for your helpfulness and quick replies. That was really professional, I appreciate it.”
We do read every e-mail that [...]
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Server upgrades
We’re in the middle of upgrading the Operating System on all the eclipse.org servers. One aspect of this that saddens me is that I’ll lose the great uptime on our main backend server:
top - 10:56:54 up 471 days, 3:45, 3 users, load average: 2.79, 2.65, 2.70Tasks: 120 total, 2 [...]
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Firefox 2.0 released - just wait 24 hours to download!
Hmmm, this link sounds like something I must have said 100 times It explains that users should patiently wait for the official release announcement of Firefox before posting links to Firefox downloads. Like Eclipse, the Mozilla/Firefox team have a problem where new releases are anxiously awaited, and with a network of public [...]
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Bugzilla: a better way to view Patches
Here’s a new toy that will make Committers happy for sure: the ability to preview a patch directly in Bugzilla without entering it into the Eclipse Apply Patch Wizard. Bug 159599 came in this morning and after looking into it, I ended up installing a PatchReader Perl module on the bugs.eclipse.org. Makes me wonder how [...]
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