Mozilla

It seems that a shell history meme is passing around the blogosphere. I first saw it on Dan Mills' blog post via Planet Mozilla. There are already 10 Mozilla hackers posting their top used shell commands, so I thought I'd do it too.

koeji:~ kourge$ uname -a
Darwin koeji.local 9.2.2 Darwin Kernel Version 9.2.2: Tue Mar  4 21:17:34 PST 20
08; root:xnu-1228.4.31~1/RELEASE_I386 i386
koeji:~ kourge$ history | awk '{a[$2]++} END {for(i in a){print a[i] " " i}}' | 
sort -rn | head
88 ls
81 cd
28 cvs
26 rm
26 md5sum
23 ./firefox-bin
22 sudo
12 ssh
12 js
9 less

A few notes:

• md5sum is actually md5 on Mac OS X. I aliased md5 so that I wouldn't suddenly have a hard time adapting should I start using a Linux system.
• js is an alias of java -Xms256m -Xmx512m org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main, which is the command to invoke the Rhino shell, which I sometimes use when I write shell scripts in JavaScript. Rhino is an awesome JavaScript implementation in Java.
• You can see from the cvs count that I'm slacking off recently when it comes to maintaining Drupal modules.

So, fellow Drupalers / Drupalites, what are your most commonly used terminal commands? Beware of the line break before sort -rn when pasting the command into your terminal.

Ben has written that Songbird 0.2.5 will be able to play DRM-protected tracks. To quote him:

The next version of Songbird (0.2.5) will support Apple FairPlay and Windows Media DRM audio playback. Those features are already enabled in the latest nightly build and everyone is encouraged to give those builds a spin. If you're on Windows you'll need to have a new-ish version of Windows Media Player (probably 9 or newer) for protected WMA playback and QuickTime for Windows (probably 7 or newer) for FairPlay to work. On OS X you'll only get FairPlay playback, sorry.
Running the DRM Guantlet | Songbirdnest.com

John Resig (author of jQuery who recently joined Mozilla Corp) wrote about Firefox 3 will have native support for document.getElementsByClassName(). This is what almost all web developers want; almost all Ajax libraries implement this.

I just saw Ben's post about an experimental feature landing on the Firefox 2 nightly. Basically, Firefox 2 will have a better way to handle feeds.

Currently in Firefox 1.5, there are two ways.

After trying out ajaxWrite because of all the hype, my conclusion is: it's disappointing.
It's not compatible with Internet Explorer. It works only on Firefox 1.5. It's written in XUL.

People, are being totally stupid because of Flock.
When Firefox 1.5 came out, someone quoted (on digg, possibly)...

Wow, Firefox 1.5 has a new error page just like Flock!

God damn it.

Flock is built on top of Firefox, not the other way around. What are people thinking?

When Firefox 1.5 came out, someone quoted (on digg, possibly)...

Wow, Firefox 1.5 has a new error page just like Flock!

I just searched for "ajax columns" in Google, and gosh, there's this ad on the side:

Wow. I love that ad ;)
It's clear (tells you what it is), has a clean URL, and a good title.
Devmo's getting much better at advertising.

I just saw this section from the Mozilla Corportation's press release:

With Firefox 1.5, Mozilla continues its search partnership with Google in the Americas and in Europe and begins a new search relationship with Yahoo! in China, Japan, Korea and Taiwan.

Songbird will be released on December. Will it be the promising integrator of digital media sites?
Certainly, it's built on top of XUL, which is the ultimate flexible framework for building great applications. I wonder what playback engine are they going to use.

Which would you prefer, to have a broken finger, or your head ripped off?
Tristan Nitot, president of Mozilla Europe

This is just interesting ;)
I prefer to have a broken finger.