The news is not all good with some firms, such as Mandrake, experiencing financial problems as they struggle to find ways of making free software pay.

BBC: The Sopranos, AP

In a tape recording made when he was five, he can be heard requesting a Christmas present of a mandrake root, for the purpose of black magic.

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Think cat dung, dead dog and poisonous mandrake.

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