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Evolution Bug-Hunt!

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the just-cuz-ya-can't-code-doesn't-mean-ya-can't-help dept.

Matt Beale writes "Ximian is slated to release Evolution (a mail client for Gnome/Linux) by October 1st. In preperation, they are offering awards for finding bugs in Evolution! A important open project to participate in, AND i can win a palm VII, sweet!" My bug was that it kept crashing ;) October release is ambitious but very cool.

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  1. Re:i wil kick your ass by ew8 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    doh!

  2. Re:Gnome/Linux? by snubber1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    dam nobody better click on this link if they want to sleep at night/ever have a sex life again.

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  3. OT Why the delay? by notext · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I am wondering a bit about browsers. I have this machine which is using mozilla on linux. I open it up and slashdot has this story, Evolution Bug Hunt, as the latest story.

    Now I have a windows machine next to me, and since I had just done some fiddling with the firewall, I opened up IE to make sure it was still connected to the outside world. Sure enough slashdot comes up but P2P goes to war was the latest story.

    I hadn't used it today so obviously it was a cached page. I decide hrmph, i try reloading page, p2p still on top. So I go to my trusty laptop running win2k and IE5.5 and sure enough it still shows p2p goes to war as top story. This is after at least 3 minutes mind you. The laptop hadn't been to slashdot in weeks so it obviously had just retrieved the page, right? How come it is a story behind then? Is this a browser thing or a slashdot thing.

    1. Re:OT Why the delay? by ethereal · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      The front page caching is pretty screwed up here too (NS 4.7x on Solaris) - the P2P article has been displayed as 3 of 8 comments for an hour or so now, which definitely doesn't match the actual story. Did somebody's perl cron job choke? :)

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    2. Re:OT Why the delay? by kilgore_47 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

      The front page caching is pretty screwed up here too (NS 4.7x on Solaris) - the P2P article has been displayed as 3 of 8 comments for an hour or so now, which definitely doesn't match the actual story. Did somebody's perl cron job choke? :)

      The slashdot front page has been odd all day. This story has been up for quite some time, and after a reload the front page still just says "Read More" and doesn't list it as having attached comments. I have my config setup to send me a message when I get replies to my posts, and that hasn't been happening either. I've seen a couple replies today and the front page still says "0 new messages".

      funny, the /. descussion about evolution bugs turns to a discussion about /. bugs...

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  4. Re:Gnome/Linux? by silicon_synapse · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Just the other day I was wondering about the purpose of the URL following the second colon in Google's cache URLs. You can apparantly change them to anything and it doesn't affect the target. The address is apparently stored in the RxCMn4UmiOU.

    EG: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:RxCMn4UmiOU:w ww.slashdot.org doesn't point to slashdot