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Ubuntu 9.04 Is As Slick As Win7, Mac OS X 871

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 24, 2009 @10:21AM from the continuous-improvement dept.

An anonymous reader writes in with an opinion piece from ZDNet Australia. "Here's what the official press release won't tell you about Ubuntu 9.04, which formally hit the streets yesterday: its designers have polished the hell out of its user interface since the last release in October. Just like Microsoft has taken the blowtorch to Vista to produce the lightning-quick Windows 7, which so far runs well even on older hardware, Ubuntu has picked up its own game."

Antarctic Ice Is Growing, Not Melting Away, At Davis Station 633

Posted by timothy on Saturday April 18, 2009 @05:13PM from the weather-is-what-you-get dept.

schwit1 writes "A report from The Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research says that Antarctic ice is growing, not melting away. Ice core drilling in the fast ice off Australia's Davis Station in East Antarctica by the Antarctic Climate and Ecosystems Co-Operative Research Centre shows that last year, the ice had a maximum thickness of 1.89m, its densest in 10 years. The average thickness of the ice at Davis since the 1950s is 1.67m. A paper to be published soon by the British Antarctic Survey in the journal Geophysical Research Letters is expected to confirm that over the past 30 years, the area of sea ice around the continent has expanded."

Comment Re:It seems ironic... (Score 1) 1147

by philhyde on Sunday March 22, 2009 @09:17PM (#27293473) Attached to: Ballmer Scorns Apple As a $500 Logo

I'm sorry, but if you have to say "I'm not retarded", then you probably are. You make some compelling arguments in favor of the Dell Precision, but your playing of the "R" card lends less credibility to your argument. Next time, maybe dispense with the insults?

Comment Re:use a better os (Score 1) 685

by philhyde on Tuesday March 10, 2009 @04:28PM (#27140295) Attached to: Norton Users Worried By PIFTS.exe, Stonewalling By Symantec

What do you recommend using on a Mac and PC?

Comment Re:Zoobuh (Score 1) 489

by philhyde on Friday September 26, 2008 @02:16PM (#25169101) Attached to: Good Email For Kids?

Zoobah is great. There is a parental interface which lets you create address books and control who email goes to and comes from. You can set it up so that all inbound/outbound email shows up in a queue for approval. Highly recommended. My 8 year old loves emailing her family members.

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