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Five Coaching Tips for Generation Y employees

Generation Y employees often have different needs and expectations than other employees, and may respond to a good coach. Here are five coaching tips to keep Gen Y employees motivated and productive.

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Making Green Work

Reorganize Your Datacenter to Cut Cooling Costs

There is a certain feng shui to laying out your datacenter. It has nothing to do with putting a palm plant in an east-facing window or organizing the racks so that they all face the door. Reorganizing your datacenter can help reduce the amount of money you spend to cool it.

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ITwhirled

Facebook movie confirms advent of end times

If you thought the Starsky and Hutch movie represented the end of any pretense of originality in Hollywood, brace yourself: West Wing creator Aaron Sorkin is apparently working on creating a movie about Facebook.

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More by Amy Bennett

Smart Tech for Small Biz

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AGATT - All Google All The Time

One of the comments on my last post said Chrome's entry to the market is more than a browser war, it's really a browser versus Operating System war. If you tilt your head just right and squint a little, you can make a case for AGATT – All Google, All The Time.

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More by James Gaskin

Virtualize your business

Organizational Leadership - Preparing Leaders for Virtualizing the Business

Virtual business success begins at the top with Internet savvy leadership. What do you do, then, if after reviewing the leadership readiness questions you discover the firm's leaders are not ready to go virtual? This post explores a few of the most common hurdles of leadership readiness and how to overcome them as you build your business case for taking the firm virtual.

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More by Martha Young

Unix as a Second Language

Replacing the DVD in My G4

Replacing a failed DVD drive in a Mac G4 takes only a few tools and a few tricks. Here's how I muddled my way through to a working system.

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More by Sandra Henry-Stocker

VoIP Security: Secrets and Hype

(Is There) Motivation for VoIP Fuzzing

What have we learned during these six or so years of proactive security work with VoIP fuzzing? Here is my top ten discoveries.

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More by Ari Takanen

Get Started with Microsoft Expression Blend

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The design phase

Some of you may also be having a grumble right now, because you were sold on this concept of “rapid prototyping” with Expression Blend from Microsoft, which is fantastic and exactly the process you would rather be taking to really speed up this entire design phase, except for one little problem: if your designers are not comfortable with Blend, then you are not going to get a heavily designed prototype.

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VMware ESX Server in the Enterprise
By Edward L. Haletky
Published Dec 29, 2007 by Prentice Hall.
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Green IT
By Toby Velte, Anthony Velte, Robert C. Elsenpeter
To be published Oct. 10, 2008 by McGraw Hill Professional
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