I’ve spun off all the firebot related traffic to his new blog. It will include updates about his status as well as upcoming changes and so forth, similar to other status blogs that appear on planet. Until it gets added to planet, you can follow it directly at…. The Firebot Blog This will be the […]
I’m taking advantage of my winter break as well as the holiday season lull to upgrade firebot’s server today (12/28/2010). So he’ll be offline from now until that’s completed sometime tonight or tomorrow. I’m also reconfiguring how my mail server is working so even after he comes back up, bugmail reporting will take longer to […]
I recognize that this post is about to be little more than a complaint (as i’m not sure what better behavior would be, I don’t claim to know good design, thats what the UX team exists for), but I recall seeing somewhere, (I think it was Jennifer Boriss’ blog) a discussion about Firefox dialogs that […]
In general, it seems as if its not obvious how to reach me regarding firebot. In fact, in seems like a lot of people don’t know who runs firebot at all. So hopefully this post will clear things up. First off, for those who are new to IRC or just don’t have the time to […]
I have a question.. not sure exactly where to direct this question at such a late hour on a friday night, i’ll just type it out here… After being sick for a couple of days I’ve read that appearantly there’s a vulnerability in the .Net framework extension that Microsoft shipped.. they recommend disabiling it, et […]
Starting now, and continuing for at least several hours, the server that hosts firebot will be down for an upgrade.. since the other server here is being kind enough to donate its “old” CPU and motherboard… The server will be being upgraded from an circa-2003 Athlon XP 2400+ to an Athlon 64 X2 4000+, plus […]
The last few nights, between 1am and 3am 4am, firebot has been offline, because of an ongoing connectivity issue. At the current time, I have no eta for when the issues will be resolved. The situation is pretty straightforward though, the outages are due to construction along the highway where I live and firebot is […]
Exactly 7 years to the day of its predecessor, a new version of Mozbot, the extensible IRC bot, has been released. New in Mozbot 2.6 is: The Google module, including Google Fight support. Support for Bugzilla activity messages in channels Support for Secure IRC (via SSL) Translation improvements and more… Find out more on the […]
Its been a long time since there was a Mozbot release, the last release was, in fact, Mozbot 2.4 on April 1st, 2002.. Mozbot 2.6, the next release, has been in development ever since (As Mozbot 2.5, since Mozbot releases are even minor-numbered only.). Nowadays for all practical purposes, running Mozbot 2.4 is pretty close […]
Most of you are aware that I run firebot, and that he’s been around, a relatively long time now, where long is since around the Firefox 0.9 launch (June 6th? maybe, can’t really remember, and the launch was the 14th.) in 2004. Starting as a bug-reporting bot, I eventually changed him to running mozbot, the […]
