[41621] in Cypherpunks
Re: Netscape rewards are an insult
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric Young)
Tue Oct 17 04:08:04 1995
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 1995 11:41:55 +1000 (EST)
From: Eric Young <eay@mincom.oz.au>
To: Brad Shantz <bshantz@nwlink.com>
Cc: "Josh M. Osborne" <stripes@va.pubnix.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
In-Reply-To: <9510151627.AA15802@toad.com>
On Sun, 15 Oct 1995, Brad Shantz wrote:
> Whoops, wrong. BETA does not mean code "they know crashes." In fact
> it is quite the opposite. This is pre-release code that they are bug
> fixing. most of the catastrophic bugs, they probably know about. A
> BETA program is to increase the testing and quality assurance staff
> to find all of the bugs they DON'T know about. Then, they will have a
> reasonable amount of time to fix those bugs before release. It makes
> for a much more stable product.
Well it took me 30 minutes to find my first repeatable 'core' dumping
bug in the v2.0beta when I started playing with it this morning.
How stable is that? Mind you, the bug appears to be probably due to a
missed variable assignment.
I have an idea about where to look for more bugs but I'll
probably wait some time before I start looking in earnest, I suppose the
challenge is to look for bugs in the final release version :-).
eric (who wants a 'I debuged netscape' Tshirt to go with his 'I hacked
netscape' Tshirt and his RSA yoyo :-)
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