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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 » 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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Oracle in a rush, Microsoft interviewed by Slashdot, Matt finds gems at OSCON and Shuttle lands

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posted Tue 09 Aug 05

Slashdot is hosting a good interview with Bill Hilf, Microsoft's Linux Lab Manager. The interview has been processed by the PR engine of Microsoft before hand, but the answers still read very well. It is particularly interesting to note the answer to the question about if any of the top-level execs have used Linux. They have and when they do come out with stuff like "Hey, that problem was solved five years ago - is that it?".

Dan Farber writes over at ZDNET about Oracle's session at LinuxWorld regarding on demand computing. Apparently the speaker was in a visible rush to get things moving along, which is funny, because the speaker at OSBC in April was also in a visibly rush to get through their talk. Maybe they have a sweep stake running in the canteen as who can finish their regulation slides in the shortest time.

Our very own SpikeSource engineer, Matt Harrison, has written up an overview of the recent Open Source Conference up in Portland, Oregon. Matt goes through his notes picking out some nice gems, including the wee slip from Schwartz on open sourcing Java to Roml noting that the only difference between poetry and prose was 'whitespace'.

The Space Shuttle has successfully landed back to earth with no problems reported. Tensions where a little higher than normal as this was the most crucial time of the whole space flight; re-entering the Earth's atmosphere. The BBC site has a wonderful right up of the whole thing, including an interesting piece on how the shuttle makes its journey home, including flying upside down at 16,000 mph!

Microsoft Linux Lab Manager Responds
Gems from OSCON
Discovery returns safely to Earth
Oracle's Charles Phillips: On demand is the future

Microsoft Linux Lab Manager Responds

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Bill Hilf, Microsoft's Linux Lab Manager, got his answers to your questions back to us in time to publish them just before the San Francisco LinuxWorld, where he is speaking. Before you ask: Yes, Microsoft PR had a look at his answers before he sent them

Gems from OSCON

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Notes from the floor on O'Reillys Open Source Conference up in Portland last week.

Discovery returns safely to Earth

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The shuttle Discovery has touched down successfully in California after the first mission since 2003's Columbia disaster.

Oracle's Charles Phillips: On demand is the future

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Oracle President Charles Phillips restlessly paced back and forth across the stage at LinuxWorld going through the standard company slides on how Oracle blesses Linux and is 100-percent behind open source OS.

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