bugzilla.mozilla.org update
On Friday, I pushed a small update to bugzilla.mozilla.org that fixed bug 452799, where users who didn’t have ‘canconfirm’ privs in Bugzilla were posting bugs that had a status of NEW rather than...
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Serving AppleShare from RHEL5 with Netatalk 2.0.3
So I was recently trying to set up a fileshare in one of our offices and trying to get it visible to the filesharing stuff in Mac OS X, since several people in the office have Mac laptops. The...
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Seven Things
So yeah, I got tagged for this by both Eric Shepherd and Sean Alamares. Ground rules: 1. Link to your original tagger(s) and list these rules in your post. 2. Share seven facts about yourself in the...
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Web interfaces for NNTP
Does anyone know of any decent web interfaces for NNTP out there? Preferably open source that we could host ourselves. There appear to be a LOT of them, so what I’m really asking is, which of all of...
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Replacing Google Groups for Mozilla Newsgroups?
This article is a repost of a previous article, but since I didn’t get very many responses, I figured I’d try again with a more attention-grabbing headline. Does anyone know of any decent web...
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Help from the community ensures a smooth download experience for Firefox 3.0.8
Most people reading this probably already know that Mozilla utilizes a network of volunteers hosting downloads of Firefox (and other Mozilla products). All of these volunteer sites are listed in a...
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Upgrading from RHEL4 to RHEL5 without a CD or a PXE server
At Mozilla, since our server farm has gotten so big, we’ve gotten reloading and upgrading machines kind of down to a science. We have a PXE server in each colo, and installations and upgrades run over...
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Upgrading bugzilla.mozilla.org to version 3.4.3
We’re finally at the point where I can say we’re ready to upgrade Bugzilla @ Mozilla this weekend. We’re aiming for Sunday evening (probably 6pm PST). I’ll post again when I know how long it’ll be...
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I have an HTC Evo running Android 2.2 (Froyo). I absolutely love the thing. The only downside is the short battery life. One really cool feature it has is the WiFi HotSpot utility, which lets you...
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The hardware behind bugzilla.mozilla.org
I recently did up a diagram of how our Bugzilla site was set up, mostly for the benefit of other sysadmins trying to find the various pieces of it. Several folks expressed interest in sharing it with...
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