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In this issue:
- China's Olympic ticketing system crashes on first day
- Symantec CEO sees more acquisitions ahead
- MySpace joins Google's OpenSocial project
- Sub-$300 Linux notebooks coming next year
- Google mobile OS unlikely, analysts say
- Mozilla, Microsoft drawing sabers over next JavaScript
- Unix file system names demystified
- Top ten auto "Out of Office" replies


IN THE NEWS
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China's Olympic ticketing system crashes on first day
The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games' (BOCOG's) plans for a 'high-tech' 2008 Olympics got off to a rocky start this week, when the online ticketing system for the games crashed under a crush of visitors shortly after tickets went on sale to the general public.

Symantec CEO sees more acquisitions ahead
More acquisitions lie in the future of Symantec as it looks to strengthen key business areas and keep pace with evolving security threats, its CEO said Friday.

MySpace joins Google's OpenSocial project
Google's OpenSocial got a major boost on Thursday when MySpace, the world's most popular social networking site, announced it will participate in the project to streamline the creation and adoption of social Web applications.

Everex to launch Linux notebooks under $300 next year
After introducing a $198 Linux desktop Wednesday, PC vendor Everex will bring Linux laptops under $300 to users next year.

Google mobile OS unlikely, analysts say
While it isn't yet clear what type of mobile announcement Google plans to make, it is clear what Google should do and why the company is interested in mobile services, experts say.

Mozilla, Microsoft drawing sabers over next JavaScript
Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich and Microsoft's Chris Wilson are trading heated rhetoric over the proposed next version of ECMAScript, better known as JavaScript.


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Unix file system names
By Sandra Henry-Stocker, ITworld.com

One of the questions that Unix users are sometimes reluctant to ask is how all the directory names -- like /etc, /var and /usr/local -- came about in the first place. Why did we adopt the particular names we use today instead of names that might make more sense to the casual user? What do these file system and directory names tell us about the intended content? ...Continue reading 'Unix file system names'


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