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Asia Dent (right) must be the most famous face in Poughkeepsie today.She was photographed by IBM PR recently putting a probe to a new 5.2 GHz chip that is at the heart of the company’s new zEnterprise mainframe, shipping next week.Florian Mueller calls this the most dangerous product announcement of the century.

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Jon "maddog" Hall's talk about Free & Open Source Software in the Developing World at the Free and Open Source Software Conference 2010 (www.froscon.de) in Germany, Sankt Augustin. For more talks go to www.froscon.tv
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