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"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" new title
Author JK Rowling has revealed the title of the seventh and final Harry Potter book. It will be called Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
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OScar - Open Source Car
What do you get if you apply the open source model to the car industry?
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madbean ยป JarWars
For the Java fans out there, here comes a nicely produced JarWars, as found by Kirk.
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Cisco owns iPhone, not Apple
Cisco is relaunching its Linksys VOIP range as iPhone, to capitalise on the trademarked name it owns, despite the rumors that Apple would be creating their own iPhone.
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Disco Dancing Santa Claus
My 6year son is now giving me links for compiledby! He found this great disco dancing santa that is very funny.
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Skype users to get lie detectors
You better watch out; Skype will be offering lie detecting software to its users to measure stress levels. Hope it will filter out the stress of dropped connections and poor quality.
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What Can't Open Source Achieve in the Next 10 Years? | Linux Journal
Gly Moody writes a blog on what he sees could be the next 10 years after reviewing just how far it has come in the last.
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Festive return for singing sheep
Its the season of novelty records, and there is nothing more novel than a singing christmas sheep!
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Bush's daughter's phone on 'eBay'
We noted last week how the President's daughters phone was snatched. Well it has popped up on an auction site!
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From the desk Santa
A very funny letter found by Joe illustrating just how the whole present giving system works.
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Five reasons to forget about C
Well, Joe found this article on why C should go the way of the dodo
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Open source Java presents world of opportunities
Now that Java is open source what can we do with it?
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Is IBM Happy Over Sun's Open Source Java?
An interesting piece on IBM's feelings about Sun's recent open sourcing of Java
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Golden Gate Bridge considers corporate sponsors
Come on Cisco, time to step up and offer some money to the very symbol that has inspired your corporate logo for years
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'Hairy Fairy' treats shoppers
A modern day fairy, albeit a middle aged man in a pink dress, is handing out free lunches and good deeds in Cornwall England
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Million Dollar Challenge
Need to earn $1M? Then simply prove the existence of the paranormal and you'll be laughing all the way to the bank. Come forth all soothsayers.
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Rocky Balboa Trailer
Rocky is back! Trailer looks promising
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Beyonce and Eva Longoria as lesbians next film
My wife found this news nugget - Sophia Coppola will be thanked by men worldwide if her next film gets the go-ahead. :)
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The Conference Community
Andy found this conference site where you can review and discover all about past and future conferences. Pretty neat idea.
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Digging Deep into the Sun/GPL Announcement
James Turner writes a beautiful piece on the reality of the announcement that Java is now GPL. Well worth the read.
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FireFox Browser Security Password Flaw
posted Thu 23 Nov 06
The great Firefox browser has a bit of a flaw in terms of how it manages it password manager. The password manager will check the domain inwhich the <form> came from, but does not check where the form is going to be submitted to.
So, for blogging sites (MySpace etc) then you can easily upload an HTML page/form, and then start harvesting username/passwords from people that you can trick into giving you their details.
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blackbadger 0.9.2 released (Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:58:58 GMT)
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