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2008 Mozilla Summit Affected By Rock Slide
An anonymous reader writes "The recently concluded 2008 Mozilla Summit, held in Whistler, Canada, was impacted by a rock slide that cut off the main highway between Whistler and Vancouver, where most attendees planned to depart via airplane. In true open-source fashion, summit attendees collaborated on a solution, opening a Bugzilla bug (severity: "blocker"), posting crash dumps, and proposing solutions, including chartering a flight (which would land first in TRUNK, then BRANCH). Eventually, attendees settled on a workaround which seems to have been successful. For next year's summit, organizers might want to consider a location with more redundancy."
Wasn't that where some Microsoft people used to meet, and wasn't that a codename of a version of Windows?
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
*Strokes chin in style of Dr. Evil*
Mozilla Summit rocks!
Singularity: a belief in the "God" idea with the "demiurge" relation inverted.
...or an attack from Microsoft's ultra high tech assault geek ninja squad, aimed at derailing the conference?
I think any sane person already knows the answer.
if this a TRUE bugzilla ticket, it would be closed ("I'm not blocked in") or ignored for years.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
That highway is quite spectacular, with some interesting vista's along the way. Unfortunately, some of those vista's were poorly designed. The foundation of this particular one was unstable from the beginning, and looks to have crashed Mozilla. Personally, I think they should do away with the vista's and focus on stability and long term viability.
This isn't something you want women to read :)
n/t
they would've seen, high in the mountains, a group of rogue engineers from the MSIE team playing with "Acme TNT" and sticking their thumbs in their ears.
Couldn't they just use Microsoft LiveMeeting to hold their summit?
I should probably hide right now.
Sorry.
Always proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
That's the same highway to the 2010 Winter Olympics. It's a freaking deathtrap. Stay away!
In true open-source fashion, summit attendees collaborated on a solution, opening a Bugzilla bug (severity: "blocker"), posting crash dumps, and proposing solutions, including chartering a flight (which would land first in TRUNK, then BRANCH).
The rest went to the pub and got laid, then handed in their nerd membership cards.
Many events during the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics will be held in Whistler.
Now we are seeing why people are very nervous about the idea that the one and only direct connecting highway connecting Vancouver and Whistler does not have acceptable uptime, security, or redundancy. The Pemberton-Lilloet-Hope-Vancouver workaround is hopelessly time consuming.
There is a train route between Whistler and Vancouver but it is also vulnerable for most of the same reasons.
The government sold the IOC on the Vancouver-Whistler idea by promising to throw millions of dollars of upgrading at that highway, and after a few years of work already underway we get this giant dump file.
Are we being set up for a snowcrash?
I deny that I have not avoided attaining the opposite of that which I do not want.
Never hold any type of important meeting in a city that has the same name as a Microsoft codename! (Windows Whistler = Windows XP)!
Now that's something worth passing! A lot of geeks smoke cannabis, I'm sure this news item would be interesting to a lot of geeks, but Slashdot passed on the news:
This is news for nerds.
Dork: Social reject
Nerd: Socially inept
Geek: Obsessed with crap
Take it do Digg. Or, if you can write a snappy headline, Fark.
Someone should have come up with a workaround to overcome the bugs in this non standards-compliant rockface.
Smivs on the intertubes!
If you had any sense you would have linked your firehose submission so if anyone who didn't just pass your story on grounds of it being OFF TOPIC,who actually paid your attention grab ploy some attention, could consider voting it up.
Even through the bear encounter, rock slide, power outage, and overnight bus trips to the airport, the organizers (especially Dan Portillo) made everything happen as smoothly as it could. Everyone had a great time, and (most) of the almost 400 attendees made their flights home. There was even a "Mozilla Camp" at the Vancouver airport where everyone was waiting for hours. Pictures of the summit are being aggregated on summit.mozilla.org. We all learned a lot and met lots of people, and overall the summit was a huge success.
All hail Pope Gates and Cardinal Ballmer.
Bring our the lizzard, ask it to move the rocks.
Sheesh. Such smart people didnt think of THAT?
NO SIG
Don't forget the other fun facts of the summit.
The ever-present bear menace: http://www.rumblingedge.com/2008/07/29/bear-with-me-while-you-sleep-at-whistler/.
The power in the hotel going out for half a day: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448604#c88.
I didn't even see them or know they were there. I use a Greasemonkey script to automatically filter out rockslides.
http://blindscribblings.com - Tasty pop-culture in conceptual fashion.
that was so fucking stupid that I really don't know why it was even posted. like a bunch of nerd assholes relating life to the knights of nee and getting a hard on because the average person doesn't know what the fuck they were talkin' about.
ultimate geekdom!
Immediately after the rock slide, several figures were seen at the top of the mountain, cackling evilly. They wore shirts with a strange blue lowercase "e" on them.
I guess you missed comment #35:
Robert Accettura wins that bug.
Typical slashbot; faced with massive memory leaks and crashes in Mozilla, you find a way to blame Vista.
stupid aerodactyls, always messing everything up
If they travel in the opposite direction of the rock slide, they will eventually arrive at the other side.
Yep, a lot of idiots on that highway. I did Squamish to Whistler as a daily commute this winter. The thing is its not that bad a highway, it's the drivers on it that are the problem. They could solve most of the winter problems if they just had a vehicle check at Horseshoe Bay where they prevented vehicles without true snow tires (not "all season", but REAL snow tires) from carrying on.
To rant further, city drivers typically don't know how to pass safely in the mountains. The most common mistake I see is the tailgate-hoping-to-pass-then-pull-out-in-a-short-passing-area-and-punch-the-gas move. A driver who knows what he/she is doing gives a couple car lengths so that they can see the passing area coming up, and accelerates while still following in the lane. That way when you pull out you are already traveling faster than the vehicle you are wanting to pass, and you don't have to try to accelerate (with your crappy all season tires) after driving through snow into the oncoming/passing lane.
OK, so that bit of ranting is done. The real thing is that people should just chill out. Know how long the drive takes, and just drive at the speed of the traffic.
And for the record, while the Sea To Sky is a beautiful drive, Duffy Lake road is IMHO much more interesting. Part of that may be due to the fact that you hardly see a soul on it most times.
(Note: poster drives a 1982 GMC doomsday truck. 4x4, studded tires, and the only electronic thing in it is a crappy second hand CD player.)
"You can't win. You can't break even. You can't quit." -A. Ginsberg
That bug is one of the best collections of jokes I've ever found, most of them deserved +5 Funny. /.
I guess I'm spending too much time here on
Neil Deakin almost missed his own wedding because of the rock slide. He had to take a float plane to get out of there.
Then all they would have had to do is wait for Tuesday.
Richard Steven Hack - This sig is TOO GODDAMN SHORT TO DO ANYTHING USEFUL WITH! MORONS!
Bill claims godliness.
It was CANADIAN GODZILLA, fighting his longtime enemy Mozilla.
... and then they built the supercollider.
My parents are staying in Squamish on holiday .. they just hired a boat and sailed straight up the river. (They were offered the round trip showing on that google map, but declined.)
Hal Spacejock: Science Fiction with Nuts
The workaround only makes sense to get back to Vancouver itself. Going to the US or the airport one would skip recrossing the river on the Trans Canada.
All of the bugs I've submitted to Mozilla are invariable closed as duplicates. Generally this isn't because I haven't already looked for the bug, but because I have and failed to locate it through Bugzilla's crappy search.
I see this as a part of the search functionality. The words you would use to describe a bug don't match the previous reported ones. So by reporting a bug and getting it marked as dupe, the following happens:
- The person who marks it as a duplicate doesn't have much work, since he/she already knows "Oh yeah, that is that bug".
- You then have the right bug that you can post on and possibly help out on.
- The search engine is getting better, because you added new words for describing the bug. Others may find the bug using your words now.
NB: The message above might reflect my opinion right now, but not necessarily tomorrow or next year.
I was at Whistler last week for another conference. I sat in on a few mozilla talks cause I couldn't resist. (Funny how when I asked the official front desk if I could, they told me "No, we fly all these people in, they're private talks" but everyone else I asked was like "Oh yeah no problem go ahead")
Our bus to Vancouver airport was scheduled 8am to make 12pm flights, and it had to be moved to 2am -- and we took the long way around, going from roughly 3 hours to 9 hours. It's actually a really nice scenic route, though it's a bit of a jolt when the sun came up and see us winding along roads meters away from a cliff.
...with the rock slide instead of what happens in the prairies.