On Airplanes And Anti Lock Brakes

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I was just reading about some of the speculation into why the Air France Airbus crashed. Investigators are beginning to suspect total and complete malfunction of the on board computers that automatically adjust for things like turbulence.
Apparently, the pilots may have believed that the craft was flying so slowly that it was about to stall, [...]

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Load “Twitter” ,8 ,1

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I’m not sure why he did it, but someone has created a Twitter client for my favorite personal computer of all time, the Commodore 64. In the video below, you will see a C-128D running in C64 emulation mode.
When I see people do things like this, I feel happy inside. No, Twitter is not going [...]

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WordPress 2.8 Just “Feels Good”

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I usually cringe with automatic updates to anything, however I have no problem auto-updating WordPress after pulling a backup. I pulled in 2.8 today and to my amazement, it looked like nothing had changed.
Then, since I was logged in anyway, I stole five minutes of time to add my StackOverflow stats to the side bar. [...]

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Better Productivity With Xen, Ubuntu and XDMCP

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Being over-loaded with work is a vicious cycle, especially when the work involves more maintenance than creativity. The cycle goes something like this:

15 things require immediate attention
You give immediate attention to 15 things at once
Despite the cycle of #1 and #2, #1 still persists at the end of the day

Even if I had the space [...]

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