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Athena and Malware Search are dead. Long live Athena and Malware Search.

GravityGripp — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 02:01:17 +0000

It’s been a while since I’ve updated you guys on things so I figured I’d start update everyone on what’s going on with Athena and Malware Search.

I originally developed these plugins for Firefox because that was my browser of choice at the time. Times change and new programs are developed. I’ve almost exclusively started using Google’s Chrome.

Without getting into the details of why I like Chrome over Firefox, I just wanted to let everyone know that I will no longer be developing any new features in Athena and Malware Search for Firefox.

All future development efforts will be in Chrome.

Athena 0.1.5

GravityGripp — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:50:41 +0000

Because people asked so nicely, I’ve uploaded Athena 0.1.5 which just adds support for Firefox 3.6. It’s on Athena’s page.

Bug in Athena: Importing exported speeches

GravityGripp — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:26:25 +0000

I’ve got a number of people contacting me about issues importing a speech file that has been previously exported via Athena. The error looks like this:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE) [mozIStorageConnection.executeSimpleSQL]” nsresult: “0×80004005 (NS_ERROR_FAILURE)” location: “JS frame :: chrome://athena/content/athena.js :: anonymous :: line 564″ data: no]

The issue comes from the way that Athena handles importing speeches. It looks for a sequence of characters, namely a semi-colon. So if your speech has a semi-colon in it, it will break the import. So, the easiest way around this is to just copy the database itself and place it on the other computer.

The database is named “athena.sqlite” and is located in your Firefox profile folder. If you don’t know where that is, see this link. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/Profiles Once you have located the database, just copy it and then paste it in the Firefox profile of the other computer. Athena will pick it up and use it.

One other thing to note, Athena 0.2.0 will do exactly this when it is released.

Athena 0.2.0 – Delay

GravityGripp — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 23:56:25 +0000

So “in a day or so” was a bit of a strech. I’ve ran into a few development issues that’s delayed my progress. Expect Athena next week unless something else comes up. Sorry for the delay, it will be worth it!

Athena 0.2.0 – In a day or so

GravityGripp — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 20:18:38 +0000

I just wanted to give a quick update on Athena development. I’ve re-written a lot of how Athena handles the response tree, it now uses a custom tree view that allows for better manipulation and just generally makes things easier. This will also allow for sub-categories in the next release. I’ve still have a few more functions to rewrite, but this looks like it will be the best version of Athena that I’ve put out.

There have been a feature or two added to this version along with a lot of bug fixes.

Double click to edit
Tree represents changes when modified
Persistent Tree State (meaning, if you expand a tree node, it will remember it)
And I’m sure a lot of little bug fixes

Look for a release in the next couple of days.

Athena Direct Importer 0.0.1

GravityGripp — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:32:53 +0000

I was contacted recently about a way to directly import text files into Athena. While I didn’t want to write this directly into Athena (or at least yet), I wrote a small C# application that will do this. Basically, you can use this utility without using Firefox at all. Assuming that you’ve used Athena before and have the athena.sqlite database in your Firefox profile, you can have this utility scan a directory of txt files and enter those text files directly into Athena’s database. The format of the text file would need to be as such:
Athena_Name:Test Athena_Category:TestCategory Rest of Speech goes here.

To use the utility, you run it from the command line as such: athena_direct_importer.exe /s c:\path\to\speeches That’s it. This utility requires the sqlite.dll to be in the same directory as the exe and it also requires the .Net Framework 2.0 or higher.

[download id="12"]

Please report any issues.

Upcoming Athena Features

GravityGripp — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 17:33:25 +0000

My development on Athena has been lacking for a while now and I apologize for that. But, the good news is that I’m going to dedicate some time to fixing some bugs and adding some new features. This is a list of the features that I’m going to be adding and would like some feedback or comments on these features.

Sub-Categories
Drag and Drop Functionality
Double Click To Edit

Thoughts and comments?

Athena and Malware Search updated for Firefox 3.5

GravityGripp — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:27:46 +0000

Both extensions should now be good for Firefox 3.5. Please report any problems.

Athena and MalwareSearch Firefox 3.1b3 compatible

GravityGripp — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 20:39:07 +0000

Both Firefox addons have been checked and are compatible with Firefox 3.1 Beta 3. The versions have not changed but the files have been updated.

Athena submitted to Mozilla

GravityGripp — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 06:41:59 +0000

I’ve submitted Athena to Mozilla in hopes of getting it published just as Malware Search is. The problem now is that it has to sit in the “sandbox” for review. So if you feel bored, please drop by and review it over at Mozilla so that it can get enough reviews to be open to the general public, I would appreciate it.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/10557