His latest single “Craigslist” skewers the people who can be found swapping wares and scoring dates on the classifieds ads site. (While there’s a verse about the popular “missed connections” feature on Craigslist, there isn’t otherwise mention of the current prostitution controversy that the site’s been dealing with.) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13577_3-10265362-36.html It’s very, umm, Doorsie

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After a nuclear holocaust, the only thing left alive will be roaches… and the SCO Group. http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/06/16/sco_finds_investor_before_chapter_7_bankruptcy_hearing/ Shaking head: Why God! Why?

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“Google’s default settings put customers at risk unnecessarily,” reads a letter lobbed to Google CEO Eric Schmidt by 37 academics and researchers. “Google’s services protect customers’ usernames and passwords from interception and theft. However, when a user composes email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations and calendar plans, this potentially sensitive content is transferred to Google’s servers in [...]

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Bull has launched the Bullx, a supercomputer that uses blade servers and water cooling to be green and fast, the company said on Tuesday. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134427

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Microsoft has a problem, and it’s this: Google. This is a battle for silverback supremacy in the jungle because, in reality, the two companies can easily exist alongside each other and be extremely healthy doing so. But this town simply ain’t big enough for the two of them. http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/166551/how_open_source_can_beat_the_status_quo.html

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Cooling a data center to 68 degrees may be going out of style, APC power and cooling expert Jim Simonelli said. Servers, storage and networking gear are often certified to run in temperatures exceeding 100 degrees, and with that in mind many IT pros are becoming less stringent in setting temperature limits. http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9134429

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In a blog posting, Intuit said it is offering the discounts on Quicken products through the end of July to all users, not just the Money users left in the lurch. Specifically, Intuit said that it is offering $20 off on Quicken Deluxe (now $39.99) and $30 off Quicken Premier (now $59.99). It is also [...]

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Credit-score giant Experian is working hard to figure out which small businesses might have trouble paying their bills — and that could mean trouble getting credit even before you get into trouble. http://www.bmighty.com/blog/main/archives/2009/06/if_youre_a_smal.html

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No matter what your attitude is toward Oracle’s products, management style and strategy, anyone running a large or small data center should breathe a sigh of relief now that the long-term viability of Solaris is assured. Without an acquisition by Oracle or Cisco  ( CSCO -  news  -  people ), Solaris might have been put [...]

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I’m not convinced yet that Microsoft will charge such a premium for the Windows 7 Starter Edition. After all, it initially said that it was going to limit to three the number of applications that can run simultaneously on Windows 7 Starter Edition, then backed off when it became clear netbook makers and buyers wouldn’t [...]

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