Comments for Indistinguishable from Jesse

Comment on Renting movies is hard by nandhp

nandhp — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 12:46:07 +0000

> Why don’t they put kiosks at train stations?

They do, just not very many yet. Chicago (CTA/Metra) and Boston (MBTA) both have some. I think it might be a new effort, the Chicago ones were only installed in December.
http://www.suntimes.com/news/transportation/9542038-418/cta-adds-redbox-kiosks-to-select-rail-stations.html
I’ve also seen redbox machines at airports, but I can’t find any on the locator map.

If you have a car (or happen to walk past one), the gas station locations are usually pretty convenient because the redbox is often outside and you can usually park right in front. But I assume you’ve looked and this doesn’t work for you either.

> Amazon Instant Video is for people who live online, yet are willing to give up control over their computers.

I assume you’re aware that in addition to DRMed downloads, Amazon can also stream your videos with Flash. If you don’t want to use Flash streaming, maybe you could use a Roku box? http://www.roku.com/

Comment on Secure and compatible by Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 05:56:55 +0000

Blake Winton has a counter-proposal at http://weblog.latte.ca/blake/employment/mozilla/thunderbird/updates . I still prefer mine, but I do like the idea of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=548766 that was mentioned in his comments.

Comment on Rapid releases and crashes by Scott Kinney

Scott Kinney — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 20:57:42 +0000

My experiences to date with 6.0.1 and 6.0.2 are that it crashes multiple times per day. I admit a sample of one may not carry much weight, but the frequency of crashes since updating with the ‘stability release’ is frustrating and annoying and the lack of attention is infuriating as well.

Comment on Lessons from JS engine bugs by Benjamin Otte

Benjamin Otte — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 12:17:15 +0000

About OOM fuzzing: The method that I have tried and found to be reasonably fast is to fork(), return NULL in the child and see if it terminates properly. The parent would continue without failures. (I wrote that up in http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2007/11/03/robustness-testing/ but the links from there are all gone.) IIRC that method was something like 30x slower than normal execution of the program, but it at least was essentially O(runtime of original program).
Also, it gets tricky when your code writes to files/sockets, but for a JS engine you should be able to avoid that.

Comment on Secure and compatible by Jesse Ruderman

Jesse Ruderman — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 20:05:04 +0000

There is now an “addon-compat” keyword in Bugzilla for changes that will affect add-on compatibility. Jorge will use it to compile lists at Aurora merge time.

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.planning/browse_thread/thread/dafd0bc59b587e27

Comment on Improving intranet compatibility by IntranetLounge

IntranetLounge — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:55:39 +0000

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