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Here’s a nice freebie from my previous employer!  (You need to give them your contact info to get the themes).

PEER 1, a global online IT hosting provider, has partnered with Lisa Sabin-Wilson, celebrity blogger and author of “WordPress for Dummies”, to offer free premium blog templates, valued at $1,200 each, designed exclusively for PEER 1 and ServerBeach.

via PEER 1 Provides Free WordPress Themes.  Click here to go straight to the themes.

Canadian web hosting provider PEER 1 Network Enterprises www.peer1.com announced on Tuesday that it has begun construction on a 41,000 square foot “green” data center in the Toronto area.

via Web Hosting Industry News

Bridging the Server Divide

Consolidating Linux and Windows servers may not be easy, but it may be best for the business.

Over the last several years, it has become very clear that the two dominant server operating system environments are Windows and Linux. In fact, it’s not at all uncommon to find both these environments running inside the same organization…

Most IT organizations chalk up the bickering between the Windows and Linux partisans to good-natured rivalry. But as the economy has taken what looks like an extended turn for the worse, the issue of costs associated with running both operating environments is starting to raise its ugly head.

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The fiber-optic outage—actually sabotage—in the Bay Area on Thursday reveals a dirty little secret: Our infrastructure is ridiculously vulnerable and it only takes a few vandals (or terrorists) to bring communication to its knees.

While it’s unclear what exactly happened, AT&T is offering a $100,000 now $250,000 reward to find the vandals that cut into fiber optic wires and whacked everything from hosting centers, 911 calls and other communication. Sam said it best: No matter how advanced we get we’re still hooked up to a big wire somewhere.

That’s not going to change. The big question: How are we going to protect those big wires?

via Jason Hiner at AT&T fiber outage shows how easily attackers could wipe out our communications | Tech Sanity Check | TechRepublic.com.

Teen Thief Caught After Accidentally Dialing 911, From His Pocket. (@sherryheyl tweeted this)

How Microsoft Is Fighting Back Finally - BusinessWeek

… Now, Microsoft has launched a determined counteroffensive. Its uncharacteristically cool TV ads emphasize the affordability of PCs vs. Macs.  …

“Microsoft has driven Linux off the lot in netbooks”

….a new strategy …. “Windows Anytime Upgrade.”

Internet Archive to unveil massive Wayback Machine data center

The Internet Archive organization plans next week to announce the opening of a new data center to house two petabytes of information for its Wayback Machine, the digital time capsule that stores archived versions of Web pages dating back to 1996.