The Mozmonkey Blog

I’ve been getting loads of emails everyday from people requesting, or demanding in some cases, that I upgrade my extensions to be compatible for Firefox 2.0.  Be assured that I am working on this.  Right now I’m trying to get my server back up to 100% after it had been hacked twice.  I expect to be releasing updates next week — I appreciate your patients.

I just saw the new Weird Al video, and it worries me that I can relate.

Last week this site was hacked into and brought down. I couldn’t access it through SSH or anything so I had to reboot it into safe-mode. The good news is none of the data was compromised and I was able to back everything up safely, the bad news is I had to reimage the server in case a root kit was installed. Now I have to go through the process of reinstalling EVERYTHING! As you can see I’ve gotten the blog back up but I still have to reinstall and configure SVN, ViewVC, Trac, Webmin among other things. Webmin and SVN are usually straight forward, but I remember the headaches I had trying to get ViewVC and Trac to work. Wish me luck and a lot of coffee.

Since Jimmy is transfering from the Sunnyvale Yahoo! office to the one in England, we had to send him off properly…get him drunk and take pictures of him dancing on the pole.  We met up at the Buddha Lounge in Mountain View at 6p, and the rest is best described in pictures:

Well, there really isn’t any way to prevent shooting yourself in the foot while programming but this funny article explains how to do it in almost every language.

http://www.fullduplex.org/humor/2006/10/how-to-shoot-yourself-in-the-foot-in-any-programming-language/ (via digg)
I especially like the UNIX example.