From the article: He said that Mozilla Europe has carried out the majority of its marketing activity on "zero budget", having spent the majority of its $20,000 allowance from the Mozilla Foundation on a large booth at the NetWorld/Interop conference in Paris last year.
They've managed a lot of marketing from "zero budget", which is impressive.
IMHO, the booth at the conference was a waste of money though. Paying bounties for certain features (like Ubuntu does) might have been a better spend.
TT has proposed to the four main futures exchanges - two in Chicago, plus Euronext.Liffe and Eurex - that it should be paid a fee for not starting patent infringement cases against them.
This sounds an awful lot like a Mafia protection racket... along the lines of "pay us money and no accidents will happen to your store".
Australia has plenty of them, but not as many as in the US. This is probably because there are fewer lawyers, rather than any cultural or legal differences.
I read about this in the Metro (a free newspaper in London) this morning, and neither that or the FA said if you got any of your gear back. Did you get anything back at all?
... and hope nobody realises that if this guy can read secret service emails by himself, foreign government intelligence agencies (ie. whatever the KGB is called these days) with more resources and more staff must be finding it laughably easy.
Thats because they are a Perth company - half of the guys I went to uni with worked on the helpdesk there in the 90s. I'm surprised they've done so much in Melbourne to be honest, I figured they would have targeted Sydney first.
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I just bought an Ultra 5 (270Mhz, 128Mb RAM, new Seagate 120Gb disk) as a learning tool and fileserver, and I'm keen to give the new OS a go. Is anyone running Solaris 10 on an Ultra 5 or Ultra 10? Is it painfully slow? How much RAM does it _really_ need?
If anyone could give me some guidance as to whether or not I can upgrade and still have a usable box, it would be greatly appreciated (I'm sure I'm not the only one either).
Yes, Vegemite is Australian. You can buy it in Britain however, since there are a couple of hundred thousand Australians living in London at any given time, and we (I'm one of them) buy it.
I would have made that a link, but Bugzilla blocks links from Slashdot. There are higher priority things to work on than this particular bug, but improved CSS2 support would still be nice.
IIRC, the first bit of C code above was placed in the wait4() system call.
For non-programmers: This is a kernel function called by many programs, and it was modified to give a program root access when it was called.
So, if you ran a program that used this function, and the kernel was modified as the parent described, you could get root. If this small change had not been noticed, and the kernel been distributed, the original hacker would have had root on everyones Linux box who ran that kernel.
Opera is my choice of browser, and it sometimes it eats all my cpu too. It only does it on pages with Flash in them though, and only after leaving them open for a minute or so. See if Flash is causing your problem too.
Asked whether the US would not object to such watering down, Coroneos said it was a case of treading another fine line. "We are meeting Mr Vaile tonight in Canberra to work on the regulations which would be used to soften the bill," he said.
Who cares if the US objects to laws in Australia? How is it any of the their business?
I was pointing out to people that this is ONE sensible thing his party is doing, amid the DOZENS of stupid things his party is doing.
As for my voice... I have voted for him twice before, but I didn't in the most recent election due to a stupid (imho) thing he did (sending troops to Iraq). I am not against him or for him to the extreme that he may as well ignore me, I am a swing voter - exactly the type of voter politicians try to win over!
Ah, so thats where I've seen Ivermectin before. I was wondering why it looked familiar (I've spent some time on a cattle station in Western Australia).
I'm an Aussie who uses the free NOAA weather data services extensively in my travels around the globe. I don't pay for this service, nor fund it with my tax dollars, but I can still access it for free and without restriction.
Thank you NOAA, for making the right decision for everyone on the internet, not just those that fund you.
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From the article: He said that Mozilla Europe has carried out the majority of its marketing activity on "zero budget", having spent the majority of its $20,000 allowance from the Mozilla Foundation on a large booth at the NetWorld/Interop conference in Paris last year.
They've managed a lot of marketing from "zero budget", which is impressive.
IMHO, the booth at the conference was a waste of money though. Paying bounties for certain features (like Ubuntu does) might have been a better spend.
TT has proposed to the four main futures exchanges - two in Chicago, plus Euronext.Liffe and Eurex - that it should be paid a fee for not starting patent infringement cases against them.
This sounds an awful lot like a Mafia protection racket... along the lines of "pay us money and no accidents will happen to your store".
...real men just install Arkeia for their important stuff, and let the rest of the world mirror it :)
Australia has plenty of them, but not as many as in the US. This is probably because there are fewer lawyers, rather than any cultural or legal differences.
I read about this in the Metro (a free newspaper in London) this morning, and neither that or the FA said if you got any of your gear back. Did you get anything back at all?
... and hope nobody realises that if this guy can read secret service emails by himself, foreign government intelligence agencies (ie. whatever the KGB is called these days) with more resources and more staff must be finding it laughably easy.
Looks like Sun and Slashdot are saying the same thing ;)
Thats because they are a Perth company - half of the guys I went to uni with worked on the helpdesk there in the 90s. I'm surprised they've done so much in Melbourne to be honest, I figured they would have targeted Sydney first.
I just bought an Ultra 5 (270Mhz, 128Mb RAM, new Seagate 120Gb disk) as a learning tool and fileserver, and I'm keen to give the new OS a go. Is anyone running Solaris 10 on an Ultra 5 or Ultra 10? Is it painfully slow? How much RAM does it _really_ need?
If anyone could give me some guidance as to whether or not I can upgrade and still have a usable box, it would be greatly appreciated (I'm sure I'm not the only one either).
Yes, Vegemite is Australian. You can buy it in Britain however, since there are a couple of hundred thousand Australians living in London at any given time, and we (I'm one of them) buy it.
Linux does indeed have the capability.
Mod parent up. For example, the @font-face feature of CSS2 is still not supported nearly four years after it was pointed out:
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I would have made that a link, but Bugzilla blocks links from Slashdot. There are higher priority things to work on than this particular bug, but improved CSS2 support would still be nice.
IIRC, the first bit of C code above was placed in the wait4() system call.
For non-programmers: This is a kernel function called by many programs, and it was modified to give a program root access when it was called.
So, if you ran a program that used this function, and the kernel was modified as the parent described, you could get root. If this small change had not been noticed, and the kernel been distributed, the original hacker would have had root on everyones Linux box who ran that kernel.
In Australia, it is called AOL, not 'Australia Online' or 'AOL Australia' (at least in the advertising I've seen).
No one uses it though.
Opera is my choice of browser, and it sometimes it eats all my cpu too. It only does it on pages with Flash in them though, and only after leaving them open for a minute or so. See if Flash is causing your problem too.
Asked whether the US would not object to such watering down, Coroneos said it was a case of treading another fine line. "We are meeting Mr Vaile tonight in Canberra to work on the regulations which would be used to soften the bill," he said.
Who cares if the US objects to laws in Australia? How is it any of the their business?
Mod parent up.
My father has a 2003 Volvo V70, and a 1980 240 wagon with 250,000km on it. He has problems with the V70, but the 240 doesn't have any.
I was pointing out to people that this is ONE sensible thing his party is doing, amid the DOZENS of stupid things his party is doing.
As for my voice... I have voted for him twice before, but I didn't in the most recent election due to a stupid (imho) thing he did (sending troops to Iraq). I am not against him or for him to the extreme that he may as well ignore me, I am a swing voter - exactly the type of voter politicians try to win over!
Ah, so thats where I've seen Ivermectin before. I was wondering why it looked familiar (I've spent some time on a cattle station in Western Australia).
I'm an Aussie who uses the free NOAA weather data services extensively in my travels around the globe. I don't pay for this service, nor fund it with my tax dollars, but I can still access it for free and without restriction.
Thank you NOAA, for making the right decision for everyone on the internet, not just those that fund you.
Little Johnny will soon recover from this horrible bout of common sense, and will go back to selling our country out to American corporations.
If you really are 70, all I have to say is I'm impressed. I hope I'm still as 'with it' at 50 as you are now. Respect++.
I bet Sony is impressed that Slashdot gave them a Gameboy icon. From the 1989 Gameboy no less.
Will they be filtering out queries with this engine as well (eg. xfree86 being filtered as discussed here a while back)?
Of course. And while they do that, I won't be using it.
I'd improve Linux on Thinkpads by releasing bloody drivers for all the obscure subsystems in them!