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Goin' green: About that Energy Star sticker on your frig? PCs and maybe servers are next.

Goin' green: About that Energy Star sticker on your frig? PCs and maybe servers are next.Good try, butSo many of the corporate settings I know use the "always on" power "management" scheme because wake-on-lan can be unreliable. I've tinkered with it myself, but we have so many different hardware...

Tags: BIOS, Desktops, Goin, Energy Star, PC, server

Discussion threads 2007-08-15

Goin' green: About that Energy Star sticker on your frig? PCs and maybe servers are next.

Yesterday, I posted two blogs here and here regarding an AMD-hosted panel discussion that I attended in Cambridge, MA. Execs from AMD, EMC, HP, and APC were there to talk about short term measures that can yield savings in energy expenditures and green house gas emissions today, and then...

Tags: ICF Consulting, PC, Server, Procurement, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, David Berlind

Blog posts 2007-08-15

No Macs meet stricter Energy Star specs

No Macs meet stricter Energy Star specsSince I have a little timeLet's look at the laptop on which I'm working now:http://images.apple.com/environment/resources/pdf/APES_MacBook_7-20-07.pdfAverage efficiency 86% [85%]Idle 16.6 W [22 W]Sleep 1.43 W [1 W]Off 0.76 W [1 W]Wow, another one passes. No_Ax jumped in a little early I guess.Maybe they should have...

Tags: Desktops, PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Energy Star, Apple Inc., Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2007-07-29

No Macs meet stricter Energy Star specs

Greenpeace is going to have a field day with this one.The love/hate relationship that environmentalists have with Apple Inc. took a turn for the worst on 20 July when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy tightened their requirements for their Energy Star program. The bad...

Tags: Hardware, Environment

Blog posts 2007-07-29

Energy Star for efficient servers?

Energy Star for efficient servers?Where's the most power consumed in servers?CPU? HDD? Power supply? All of the above?

Tags: Servers, Energy Star, server

Discussion threads 2007-01-01

Intel pledges support for new Energy Star standards

Intel pledges support for new Energy Star standardsCheck out the VIA C7-D ProcessorIt makes me wish they could get back in the business more seriously.

Tags: Quality, Energy Star, Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-10-25

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Print this: Actually, please don't, but DO think about why printers should get more airtime in green tech discussions

I was talking to someone within the past couple of months (I honestly can't remember who right now, sorry) who made a pretty profound statement that seems pertinent in the context of this post. I had just admitted, somewhat shamefacedly, to my ongoing addiction to printing out my notes, presentations...

Tags: Green Technology, Printing, Printers, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-10

America's airways ready for NextGen

It's time – long past time – to upgrade the U.S. air traffic control system. The current system, designed during World War II, contributes mightily to flight delays, customer dissatisfaction and a massive energy wastefulness. But a GPS satellite-based system, on the drawing board for more than a decade, has...

Tags: FAA, Air Traffic Control, Greenhouse Gas, Aerospace & Defense, Manufacturing, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Inside an early star-forming galaxy

U.S. astronomers from the California Institute of Technology Caltech have used adaptive optics AO on the 10-meter Keck Telescope in Hawaii in conjunction with other images provided by the Hubble Space Telescope to look inside a young star-forming galaxy as it appeared only two billion years after the Big Bang....

Tags: California Institute Of Technology, Image, Adaptive Optic, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2008-10-09

Up on the rooftop: Brightening prospects for solar technology

It's midnight, do you know where your solar panel is? I read somewhere yesterday where thefts of solar panels are on the rise, no doubt due to the rather dear price that they still command. Hopefully, that's on a pace for change, given that many of us...

Tags: Installation, Solar Energy, Photovoltaics, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-09

PH Arcade Script (zip)

Arcade script to have your own online flash games of your own. Full administration. Many user features such as - comment, profile editing, tell a friend, full screen, add to their media to their own site code, and more. 5 star rating system by members. Forced signup depending on your...

Tags: PH Arcade, Corporate Communications, Workforce Management, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Human Resources, Personal Technology

Software downloads 2008-10-09

Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?

Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...

Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Another bit of positive green investment news. Smart grid is again the focus.

More positive news on the clean-tech investment front announced before the market meltdown but significant nonetheless: Another smart-grid player, GridPoint, is using at least some of its $120 million in recently raised equity financing to buy V2Green, which sells technology for integrating infrastructure for supporting plug-in electric hybrids with the...

Tags: Alternative Energy, Grid, Clean Technology, Hybrid, GridPoint, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supplyWho cares?particle colliders and whatnot- how about: let's try living our own lives and find out something useful once they've RUN an experiment! It's difficult enough dealing with the paramount necessities and the trivialities of our own lives- why bother to focus on others'?There's...

Tags: Large Hadron Collider, power supply, Hadron Collider

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

Do we we have a way to defeat global warming?

Is the recession the ultimate way to fight global warming? That's the suggestrion from one market commentator. Less spending=less greenhouse gas, he says. The outlook from international finance organizations is decidely gloomy. It follows that if spending's down, industrial output from China and elsewhere will...

Tags: Capitalist, Stock, Global Warming, Fossil Fuel, Oil-rich Russia, Investment, Finance, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Smart grid tech player Silver Spring receives a cool $75M

Despite the ongoing financial meltdown, people still are throwing money around for greentech/cleantech companies. For now, at least. Silver Spring Networks, which develops Smart Grid technology, said it has received an additional $75 million in funding intended for global expansion. The investment round was led by Kleiner...

Tags: Financial, Venture Capital, Financial Accounting, Investment, Telecom & Utilities, Finance, Financing Startups, Heather Clancy

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply

Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...

Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com

News items 2008-10-08

The invisible frontier of our solar system

The invisible frontier of our solar systemIsn't this phenomenom explained by the Electric star theory ?Well, it seems to me that the Electric stars theory give an excellent explanation for this phenomenom.Off course as the official theory discard any possibilities of electric current acting on a large scale in...

Tags: phenomenom, theory, solar system

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

StarQuest (zip)

StarQuest is a command line turn-based science fiction game which features multiple enemy types, star bases, weapons, and levels. After defeating the different enemies for 10 levels, face the boss and fight for humankind. NOTE: This game requires installation of the Java Runtime Environment. This version is the first release...

Tags: Cubex Digital Entertainment, StarQuest, Games, Java, Personal Technology, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development

Software downloads 2008-10-08