Monthly Archives: March 2009

This weeks links (2009-03-30)

Daylight Savings ends Daylight Savings ends Sunday April 5th : Change your clock, change your smoke alarm battery. Only working smoke alarms save lives! Why run computer labs? What’s the point of running a university computer lab when all the … Continue reading

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FireFox 3.0.8

Mozilla released Firefox 3.0.8 on Mar 27, 2009 Firefox 3.0.8 fixes two critical security issues found in Firefox 3.0.7 Fixed in Firefox 3.0.8 [1] MFSA 2009-13 Arbitrary code execution through XUL <tree> element MFSA 2009-12 XSL Transformation vulnerability Vulnerability ratings: … Continue reading

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More internet blacklist & filtering fail

ABC television’s Q&A program – Episode 7 – 26/03/2009 Q&A live from Melbourne On the Q&A panel were Stephen Conroy – Minister for Communications, Greg Hunt – Shadow Minister for Climate Change, Andrew Bolt – Provocative Columnist, Louise Adler – … Continue reading

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Earth Hour this Saturday (2009-Mar-28)

Created to take a stand against the greatest threat our planet has ever faced, Earth Hour uses the simple action of turning off the lights for one hour to deliver a powerful message about the need for action on global … Continue reading

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Australian Grand Prix 2009

NEXT RACE – 29th March Grand Prix of Australia 01 Australian Grand Prix Preview – Formula One 2009 Season 2009 Australian Formula 1 GP Circuit Preview ING Australian Grand Prix 26-29th March 2009 Albert Park Circuit Profile : 5.3-kilometre circuit … Continue reading

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Cisco Systems Security Advisories (Mar 2009)

Cisco Security Advisories and Notices [1] Cisco is announcing program changes for the publication schedule for Cisco Internetwork Operating System (IOS) Security Advisories. Starting on March 26, 2008, Cisco will release bundles of IOS Security Advisories on the fourth Wednesday … Continue reading

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This weeks links (2009-03-23)

YouTube EDU An EDU channel from YouTube. Trouble for Firefox if you have .NET 3.5 SP1 … We added this support at the machine level in order to enable the feature for all users on the machine. Seems reasonable right? … Continue reading

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ACMA blacklist leaked

Summary [1] This list contains 2395 webpages or site variations derived from the those secretly banned by the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) and used by a government approved censorship software maker in its “ACMA only” censorship mode. The … Continue reading

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Earth tremor in Melbourne 4:30pm tonight.

Another earth shake here in Melbourne this afternoon. After the shake a few weeks back. About 5 seconds worth here in Parkville. VICTORIANS have been struck by another earth tremor about 4.30pm today, with reports from Coldstream to South Gippsland. … Continue reading

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Problems with PDFs on your e-Studio 351c?

ERROR: undefined OFFENDING COMMAND: IERJKS+Frutiger-Roman OPERAND STACK: false It would appear that any multiple page PDF is doomed to failure when we print to our e-Studio 351c using the PostScript driver. The quick fix: In Acrobat Reader go into the … Continue reading

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