A lot of Firefox's code is actually written in various interpretedlanguages, especially JavaScript, and Firefox extensions are prettymuch all interpreted. This means that you can do a lot of Firefox andextension hacking without ever having to rebuild from source; you justzap the interpreted files in place in your installed copy.

Firefox doesn't leave all of these files sitting around for you toedit; it bundles them up in various .jar files (pretty much all inthe chrome/ subdirectory). Fortunately .jar

One of the infamous trivial bugs in C code is accidentally writing' = ' instead of ' == ' in conditional expressions; you get assignmentinstead of equality checking. One common piece of advice for avoidingthis is to reverse the order of the check, putting the constant first.This way, if you accidentally write ' NULL = foo ' instead of the == version, you'll get a compile time error.

I can't stand to write this version, because it looks wrong to me.

Once again, I'm leading with Hotmail's stats to highlight their spam problem :

• three email messages accepted.
• 320 messages refused because they came from non-Hotmailemail addresses.
• 22 messages refused because their sender addresses had already hitour spamtraps.
• 21 messages refused due to their originating IP address (17 in theSBL, two in the CBL, one in the XBL, one because it's fromGilat-Satcom).

Gilat-Satcom is a serious problem here; it