A beautiful freeware project the F-86 Sabre, will soon be released. Really nice attention to detail, judging from the screenshots. The development group list includes well knowns like Robert Young and Dudley Henriques.

http://sectionf8.com/

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If you use Tomboy notes in Gnome, you may have found that sometimes when you log into your user account, the Tomboy search window is open on your desktop.

I found the solution to this problem, at least in my own case.

My usual practice had been to add the Tomboy icon to the panel manually. After doing this I noticed no problems until I enabled Tomboy note searching within Deskbar search, and immediately I started getting the Tomboy search window on each login.
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I completed an upgrade to my main PC last week, and subsequently reinstalled my WinXP/Ubuntu dual boot. All went painlessly I am happy to report.

A specific issue during my configuration of Ubuntu, I had trouble enabling the 'Big Desktop' mode in the ATI CCC driver control panel. Each time I would apply my desired settings, they would be reverted to 'Clone' monitor output when I restarted. Being new to ATI, I figured it was a user error, but then I noticed that when I logged in as...

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Gimp 2.6 is relased. Release notes page is shown below. A worthwhile update based on my use in WinXP so far. I will add a note when the Ubuntu repositories are updated with the new files.

GIMP2.6 Release Notes

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I found this third party Portal mod a short while back. Due for release (free) in the coming weeks, this could prove interesting.

Portal: Prelude

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