September, 2008 | bitpost.com/news

Google Results Walker goes public!

0.5.11 was reviewed and approved, which makes it public. This is great for two reasons:

Users can install the addon without logging in to mozilla.org
Users will get live updates to the latest approved version

This is VERY good stuff. To put it in perspective, I had a couple hundred downloads this morning, and I’ve been watching that number jump by 100 every hour or two – it’s currently over 600. Exciting times for my little addon!

I released 0.5.12 by request to address more international google URLS (eg, google.fr). The nice guy that requested it even donated $10 afterwards. A good day all around. :>

Comments | Monday, September 29, 2008

Cyrus IMAP + Squirrelmail + Avelsieve working again!

Avelsieve is a really nicely done web interface for email rules. It is a plugin for Squirrelmail, a tried-and-true webmail client, that works with a cyrus IMAP server, another old dog that is a nightmare to install but gets the job done no matter what it is.

The system has been handling my email for years, but for the past few months, I haven’t been able to get Avelsieve to edit my email rules. It’s very picky about compatibility. Today I finally dug in and fixed that. Apparently cyrus updates broke avelsieve, but there’s a workaround. Turned out to be one line in the avelsieve config file, updated as follows:

# MDM Will this fix the problem of not decoding scripts?
# MDM YES!  IT DOES!  Thank goodness.
# see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.plugins/14106
#$avelsieve_disabletls = false;
$avelsieve_disabletls = true;

Yay! My pretty and powerful email rules are back!

Comments (1) | Thursday, September 25, 2008 [ avelsieve * cyrus imap * squirrelmail * whitelist ]

Google Results Walker 0.5.11

Official download page

Homepage

Google updated their results page today, Google Results Walker has been updated to match.

It was a simple change of the footer, from using an ID of ‘footer’ to using a className of ‘clr’ (?), but it was enough to break walker. I updated the code do more checking of assumptions, so next time the placement may get thrown off but it won’t break.

Have fun with it!

Comments | Thursday, September 25, 2008

Fixing blocks

Had to do some cleanup to get nightly emerge working again. I’m looking to see if FF 3.0.2 is marked stable yet (it was just pushed to my Windoze boxxen today).

Silly qca kept simultaneously requiring and blocking the 1.0-r2 version, add this to [package.keywords] to fix it:

# MDM Workaround for this qca bug:
#   http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=238000
# "the proper workaround is the 'local' stabilisation:"
=app-crypt/qca-1.0-r3

Also, WordPress was blocking with “no packages available”. Gentoo has switched (to my knowledge) so that hard-masked packages have to be unmasked in both package.keywords and package.unmask, added to both and we’re getting the latest version again. Happy day.

emerge_all_minprompts

Comments | Wednesday, September 24, 2008

Bumping desktop to FF3 with an emerge world

eix is having brainfarts…

emerge -Davu eix
eix-sync

mo betta…
added to [package.keywords]:

# Unmask FF3, and deps...
www-client/mozilla-firefox
dev-libs/nspr
dev-libs/nss
net-libs/xulrunner

clean up blocks, and let er rip:

emerge --unmerge app-crypt/qca
emerge -Davu world
72 packages (65 upgrades, 6 new, 1 in new slot)

let’s do it! with the new X2 and 2GB memory, should be FAST… :>

emerge_all_minprompts

aifol.