This Week in Tech 107

Dvorak uses a Mac, and likes it, an intern loses 800,000 social security numbers, and we celebrate Sysadmin Day...

• Dvorak's favorite PC company is EndPCnoise.
• Dvorak is using a Mac, and he likes it.
• Joy of Tech made a comic about Dvorak's liking of the Mac.
• Fake Steve called Dvorak a frigtard.
• Friday was the 9th annual SysAdmin Day.
• Google has pledged $4.6billion for the 700MHz spectrum.
• The governor of Nevada accidentally posted the password to his Outlook email account on his website.
• Target was to push Blu-Ray over HD-DVD, but it turned out to be false.
• Microsoft claims that by the end of 2008, there will be one billion machines running Windows.
• Digg has ditched Federated Media and Google for Microsoft in order to serve ads.
• The LifeLock spokesman who gives away his social security number was hacked!.
• Alienware has added a solid state drive option.
• The owner of the former allofmp3.com faces jail time and a fine of 15 million rubles.
• 800,000 social security numbers were stolen from a 22-year old intern's car.
• A study shows that 1 in 5 adults watch Web videos.
• Another study shows that 20% of a work day is wasted.
• A senator from Guam is a level 70 dwarf priest in World of Warcraft.
• A huge power outage in San Francisco took down several large websites.
• For the first time, NetFlix lost some customers.
• The founders of ConnectU have sued Facebook.
• A Polish bus driver was fired for sending over 38000 text messages on the company phone.
• Is the US government checking up on Vista users?
• Nokia has bought social networking site Twango.
• This past quarter was great for both Microsoft and Apple.
• Is Cisco going to kill the Linksys brand name?
• Business.com sold for 360 million.
• Gizmodo pitted HDMI cables from both Monster and Monoprice against each other.