We reflect on their past mistreatment.

We reflect in particular on the mistreatment of those who were stolen generations - this blemished chapter in our nation's history.

The time has now come for the nation to turn a new page in Australia's history by righting the wrongs of the past and so moving forward with confidence to the future.

We apologise for the laws and policies of successive Parliaments and governments that have inflicted profound grief, suffering and loss on these our fellow Australians.

We apologise especially for the removal of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children from their families, their communities and their country. For the pain, suffering and hurt of these stolen generations, their descendants and for their families left behind, we say sorry.

To the mothers and the fathers, the brothers and the sisters, for the breaking up of families and communities, we say sorry.

And for the indignity and degradation thus inflicted on a proud people and a proud culture, we say sorry.

We the Parliament of Australia respectfully request that this apology be received in the spirit in which it is offered as part of the healing of the nation.

For the future we take heart; resolving that this new page in the history of our great continent can now be written.

We today take this first step by acknowledging the past and laying claim to a future that embraces all Australians.

A future where this Parliament resolves that the injustices of the past must never, never happen again.

A future where we harness the determination of all Australians, Indigenous and non-Indigenous, to close the gap that lies between us in life expectancy, educational achievement and economic opportunity.

A future where we embrace the possibility of new solutions to enduring problems where old approaches have failed.

A future based on mutual respect, mutual resolve and mutual responsibility.

A future where all Australians, whatever their origins, are truly equal partners, with equal opportunities and with an equal stake in shaping the next chapter in the history of this great country, Australia."

Prime Minister of Australia
Kevin Rudd

The self-selected online survey suggests 57 percent were hobbyists who don't get paid to work on open source, 24 percent were working on open source in their paid job part of the time, while 10 percent worked on open source full time. Interestingly, the highest paid group was those working full time on open source projects.

About Giuliani. And not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Next, I will post a list of stocks I intend to go long on. You should buy puts on them, even if you have to mortgage your house...

Three formats have been chosen for all documentation between authorities and users/partners:

• HTML for all public information on the Web.
• PDF for all documents where layout needs to be preserved.
• ODF for all documents that the recipient is supposed to be able to edit

While government offices may publish in other formats, they must always also publish in one of these formats, so information will be available to people who do not wish, or cannot afford to use expensive proprietary software.

The unidentified person grabbed a chair and hurled it off the balcony, striking the suspect in the back and knocking him to the ground, while yelling "I'll f****g kill bank robbers. I've done it before and I'll do it again!".

Many of the world's top climate change scientists, and delegates from 180 nations, applauded as the conference noted Australia's decision to abandon its long-held opposition to Kyoto.

This move leaves the United States as the only major world economy which has failed to ratify the UN climate pact.

They found PE loading capabilities in Leopard that weren't there in Tiger. Further dissection showed that Apple is masking references to *Win* and *PE* in the dll, which means it's not an accidental inclusion.

Is Apple planning native PE execution within OSX? The ability to use existing Windows software on OSX machines would dramatically lower the barrier to switching, and there's no doubt that there's considerable interest in alternative operating systems since Vista's less than inspiring debut.

There's unlikely to be a better time for Apple to make a grab for the OS market. Maybe 2008 will be the year of OSX on the desktop.

The Eee PC's US success is reflected in strong demand worldwide.

Despite the strong sales of the Linux device, Asus announced a version of the compact PC which would be available with Microsoft Windows pre-installed . Microsoft have agreed to lower the price of Windows to below $40 for Eee PC customers.

That means the Outlook will inherit the same HTML and cascading style sheets (CSS) support as Word 2007. Some of the limitations that will bring include;

While many Slashdotters will question the value of any HTML email, let's remember that choice has already been made by most non-technical email users, and keep this on-topic.

More details on Kevin Yank's Sitepoint blog

Interestingly, forty four percent of companies surveyed are considering switching to non-Windows operating systems, and nine percent of those have already started moving to their selected alternative.

"The concerns about Vista specified by participants were overwhelmingly related to stability. Stability in general was frequently cited, as well as compatibility with the business software that would need to run on Vista," said Diane Hagglund of King Research.

The guys at Xpnet research have charted the performance of each generation of Microsoft's OS and productivity suite against their hardware demands.

The results? It will be no surprise to anyone that hardware is not keeping up. Even on modern hardware, the Vista/Office 2007 combination is significantly more sluggish than its predecessors.

The annual solar car race between Darwin, in Australia's Northern Territory, and Adelaide, 3,000km away in South Australia, started on Sunday, and included a rest day on Tuesday. It looks like the leading cars will cross the line late Thursday or early Friday, and independent observers suggest many competitors will be cracking a Coopers or two to celebrate.

Windows users who browsed with Internet Explorer and had RealPlayer installed will have been infected if they visited sites showing ads served by internet advertising company 24/7. While the attack vector of IE/ActiveX will be familiar to all Slashdotters, this is the first time advertising servers have been hijacked to distribute the malware

The exploit allows the attachers to load the Trojan program "Zonebac" on the compromised computer.

In partially repudiating a statement made last year, when he said Windows and Office were no longer the company's focus by shouting "Not any more baby, it's advertising, advertising, advertising!", Ballmer reassured investors that the company would not be abandoning it's cash cows any time soon.

Ballmer went on to suggest that software as a service, including ad-supported versions of Office were the trend for the future.

The addon, which is being actively developed, will be released under GPL3