Mozilla group catches bug challenge
Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 06 November 2002 - 13:14 · no comments & 35 views
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The name Mozilla is a combination of Netscape's original moniker, Mosaic Communications, and the name of the giant lizard/dinosaur of Japanese monster movie fame. Markham announced the contest this week. The entry deadline is Nov. 14, at noon PST.
One fifth of a million bugs may seem like a sizable swarm, but Mozilla representatives point out that the number includes every ticket submitted through the group's Bugzilla bug- and suggestion-tracking system since its launch in March 1998. They also say many of the tickets are reporting the same bug, or are requests for new features, rather than alarms about security or functionality glitches.
The pace of Bugzilla reports has quickened over the course of the project. Although it took more than three years for the system to record its 100,000th bug--a similar sweepstakes was held in August 2001--the second 100,000 were submitted in just over a year. Markham called the 200,000-bug milestone an indication of Mozilla's success in attracting volunteers.
"The fact that we've reached 200,000 items in Bugzilla is a tribute to the dedication and effort of the Mozilla (quality assurance) team and the contributions of tens of thousands of people," wrote Markham in an e-mail interview. Those contributors are "helping us make the product better."
Live Life. Live Broad. Live in South Korea.
A wise geek once said:. Something that the citizens of south korea don't need to worry about any longer as the government there is paying for EVERYONE to get broadband by 2005.
Apparantly the lil' dudes in South Korea spend more time in front of their PC than TV and are notorious net fanatics using the net to order food, shop, and even consult doctors.
What not to do with your customer's e-mail addresses.
US Bank, Bank of the West gets todays Neowin SNAFU of the day award™ for inadvertantly giving away the e-mail adresses of approximately 3,300 of its customers. The mishap happened when the company placed the addresses in the "To" field of an e-mail to its customers instead of the "BCC"(Blind carbon copy) field which wouldn't have revealed the other recipients.
The bank blamed the incident on "Human Error" which being a geek makes me think of some poor dude who's brain just got a BSOD. "This human has encountered a fatal exception error at address OEx0467892 and will be terminated" Microsoft sure has a lot to answer for. ;)
Wierd Science: Gay Sheep!
Those wacky guys at Oregon Health and Sciences have been performing experiments on the sexual preferences of sheep.
Studies of sexual preferences in sheep found that between 6% and 10% of rams are attracted to males rather than ewes.
A part of the brain known to be involved in sexual preferences, the preoptyc hypothalamus, has a "sexually dimorphic nucleus" which is normally bigger in males than females.
The scientists found similar differences in the size of the nucleus when comparing straight rams with gay ones.
And Finally a joke that only our american vistors will get....
Its a recipie for batting for the other team.
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