Green IT: Summer’s here and the time is right for cooling down your datacenter. Senior editor Ted Samson offers 5 tips on beating datacenter heat, cheap. First up, fight heat with, well, heat. These suggestions not only trim “some expense from your cooling bills, but as a result, shrink your organization’s environmental footprint in the process,” Samson explains. Notes from the field: Calling it “craptacular” Robert X. Cringely turns his attention back toward Microsoft’s Windows Vista. At least one reader would prefer chewing a broken pipette to using the new OS, while another lost everything on his Vista-(un)ready Dell box. “There are of course those who are enthralled with Vista, and they tend to be both uppity and vociferous,” he reports in Is Vista an orphan? (Sheesh. Not sure why Cringe has to go picking on orphans, anyway…) Best of the blogs: The Apache Software Foundation was the lone dissenter in a vote this week to approve a JSR for Java EE 6. The Apache group claims that, “Sun in violation of the Java Specification Participation Agreement,” by proposing unacceptable intellectual property restrictions on field of use. Read the Tech Watch post here. Technology Industry