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Green dream fuels shift in Whitehall

News It is aiming to recycle 30 per cent of its waste and plans to extend the life of PCs beyond three years. Government IT is undergoing a major shift as Whitehall attempts to revolutionise its approach to green computing.

Tags: energy, climate change, green

[09 May 2008]

On Oracle Database 11g

whitepaper It could cache these blocks in various places, such as the default pool, a keep buffer pool, or a recycle buffer pool. Oracle Database 11g raises the bar on data caching. In the past, Oracle Database cached database blocks.

Tags: database management

[28 Mar 2008]

Recycling kit the way to greener IT?

Recycling kit the way to greener IT?

News David Supple, head of IT, marketing and creative services for Ecotec research and consulting, said: "We pay for all equipment to be recycled - it does help us to keep a smaller equipment store, but I do have ongoing concerns about what happens to...

Tags: cio jury, green it, recycling, david

[18 Feb 2008]

Photos: Power-generating leg brace goes for a walk

Photo The device harvests energy from the end of a walker's step, when the muscles are working to slow the movement of the leg, "in much the same way that hybrid electric cars recycle power from braking", according to a release from the university.

Tags: power, walk, batteries, energy

[11 Feb 2008]

Chip and bin to combat climate change?

News The so called 'chip and bin' scheme could see chips put in bins to collect data on the weight of household rubbish in order to encourage people to recycle more and throw away less. The legislation will spell out what a local authority has to do...

Tags: chip and bin, recycling, climate change, bill

[31 Oct 2007]

Windows Me Annoyances: Basic Explorer Coping Skills

whitepaper Explorer (Explorer.exe) is the primary shell interface, handling the desktop, the Start Menu, the Recycle Bin, Control Panel, My Computer, the Explorer window, and about a million other things. The face of Windows Me that users see most is Windows...

Tags: windows 3.1 - 95 - 98 - me, explorer, windows explorer, tasks

[25 Oct 2007]

Photoshop Elements 4: Making Selections

whitepaper For example, if the user goes to the Windows desktop and double-clicks the Recycle Bin icon, the PC shows a window full of files that the user has thrown away. Many computer programs allow the user to manipulate elements on a page as objects.

Tags: graphics applications, word, object, clicks

[17 Oct 2007]

Tech recycling rubbished as "stupid"

News With the long-awaited Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) Directive coming into play this year to encourage companies to recycle and reuse their old IT equipment - some companies are sending their PCs to developing countries in a bid...

Tags: digital divide, weee, recycling

[15 Oct 2007]

The carbon budget is coming...

News The WEEE Directive aims to encourage companies to recycle and reuse their old IT equipment. Every UK business must carbon budget when the Climate Change Bill comes before parliament over the next year.

Tags: government, carbon budget, green it

[12 Oct 2007]

Windows XP in a Nutshell: The Registry

whitepaper An amazing amount of what one might assume to be "Hardwired" into Windows - the locations of key directories, the titles of on-screen objects such as the Recycle Bin, and even the version number of Windows XP reported in Control Panel - is...

Tags: windows xp, xp, windows xp, registry

[10 Oct 2007]

What Happens to My Technotrash

whitepaper GreenDisk will safely recycle anything from a CD to a PC, including such items as print cartridges, cell phones, and peripherals. During the last few years, GreenDisk have expanded their offering to serve consumers of electronics.

Tags: removable storage, consumers, serve, compliant

[25 Aug 2007]

Vodafone flaunts green credentials

News The directive makes producers of new tech equipment responsible for paying to recycle or safely dispose of products once they are no longer in use. Vodafone is making significant inroads into becoming a more green and environmentally responsible...

Tags: recycling, energy, green, weee

[29 Jun 2007]

MSDN Webcast: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle (Session 4) - Object-Oriented Concepts in Microsoft .NET Winforms Applications - Level 200

whitepaper Chances of the development approach are committed to an object-oriented methodology for writing extensible code. This fourth webcast in the essential 14-part series "Soup to Nuts - A Practical Guide to Building Windows Forms Applications with .NET...

Tags: object-oriented, .net, object, oriented

[09 Jun 2007]

Hostos Community College Reduces Student Paper Waste With Solution From Lexmark

whitepaper Blue recycle bins in the library were always full and multi-page documents sat unclaimed on printers and copiers. Hostos Community College, a two-year academic institution located in Bronx, New York, is a growing part of the City University of New...

Tags: printers - plotters, community, york, college

[24 May 2007]

How recycled PCs bridge the digital divide

News With the long-awaited WEEE Directive rolling into full effect later this year - forcing all businesses to address the ways in which they dispose of electrical equipment - companies are being reminded of the option to recycle PCs in the developing...

Tags: kenya, computer aid

[12 Feb 2007]

Greens slam Vista 'landfill effect'

News It can be really easy to pass on the old machine to be reused, and if it's beyond use, to recycle it," Shadbolt said. The Green Party has claimed Microsoft's latest operating system, Vista, could lead to a mass upgrade of PCs that will result in...

Tags: microsoft vista, greens, windows vista, vista

[30 Jan 2007]

Windows Vista Beta 1 Review (Part 2)

whitepaper One nice touch: the Recycle Bin visually appears to fill up with little crumpled balls of paper as the users throw items out. This paper presets the Windows Vista Beta 1 review. The Windows Vista Beta 1 desktop is visually similar to build 5048...

Tags: vista, beta, visually, enabled

[22 Nov 2006]

The Windows Vista Developer Story: Run-Time Status and Control (RSCA) API

whitepaper RCSA generally allows only very coarse manipulation of state (for example, initialize, start, stop, and recycle). The Run-time Status & Control (RSCA) API is a new programmatic interface for accessing and manipulating the runtime state of Web sites...

Tags: runtime, dll, interface, sites

[14 Nov 2006]

Permanently Bypass the Recycle Bin When Deleting Files

whitepaper If one would like to permanently delete any file without having to remove it from the recycle bin also, this simple webcast sets the Windows XP installation to ignore the recycling bin completely. If one wishes to revert to using the recycle bin...

Tags: windows xp, bin, recycle, recycle bin

[01 Sep 2006]

WEEE enters final phase

News Whitehall is proposing the introduction of a network of take-back facilities where consumers can return old equipment as well as the creation of authorised treatment centres to recycle the kit and monitor WEEE levels - checking how much hardware...

Tags: weee directive, weee

[25 Jul 2006]

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