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Comment Re:Not a problem (Score 1) 214

by davidag on Monday March 19, 2012 @03:28PM (#39406407) Attached to: Free Apps Eat Your Smartphone Battery

No mod points, but that made me laugh.

For GUIs, Just the Right Degree of Realism 256

Posted by timothy on Friday January 22, 2010 @09:36AM from the insightful-line-drawing dept.

mr crypto writes "User interfaces make copious use of pictures and symbols, but how abstract should images be? Lukas Mathis has an interesting blog entry on where to draw the line."

Comment Mod Up Re:Not so new.. (Score 1) 301

by davidag on Friday July 24, 2009 @03:48PM (#28811383) Attached to: Electricity From Salty Water

Thanks for the link to the informative publication.
I have no mod points :(

FreeBSD 6.4 Released 64

Posted by timothy on Tuesday December 02, 2008 @10:14AM from the unsung-but-nicely-free dept.

hmallett writes "FreeBSD 6.4-RELEASE, the fifth release from the 6-STABLE branch of FreeBSD development, is now available. In addition to being hosted at many FTP sites, ISO images can be downloaded via the BitTorrent tracker, or for users of earlier FreeBSD releases, FreeBSD Update can be used to perform a binary upgrade."

Fossett's Plane Found 356

Posted by timothy on Thursday October 02, 2008 @02:54PM from the last-word dept.

otter42 writes "Sadly, it looks as if all those crazies claiming Steve Fossett was still alive were wrong after all. The NY Times has the confirmation that wreckage of Fossett's Bellanca Citabria was found. Now it's up to the NTSB to tell us why this happened, although, statistically, dollars to donuts it was engine/fuel-related."

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