__/ [ Roy Schestowitz ] on Sunday 26 November 2006 16:51 \__
> Cute!
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> http://www.kuteev.ru/ph10/edf4.jpg
Here's one with a modified caption:
http://forums.raiden.net/files/linux_public_service_167.jpg
> Context here:
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> http://files.webhost.ru/stuff/edf_ad.html
>
> Related:
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> How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Microsoft has been touting Vista's new power saving features,
> | saying that upgrading to Vista could easily save consumers and
> | corporations $50 to $75 per computer per year in energy costs.
> | The question, though, is what marvelous new code makes this miracle
> | possible. The answer? They fixed three stupid mistakes that have
> | cost the world billions of dollars and millions of tons of CO2 in
> | the past five years.
> `----
>
> http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/11/how_windows_xp.php
>
>
> Computers in schools are an environmental time-bomb
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | The solution, according to Sirius Corporation, is a move away from the
> | ECTA frameworks to leaner hardware and 'virtualised' network services.
> |
> | Traditional 'fat-client' workstations should be replaced by low-power
> | 'thin-client' terminals. With flat screens and server consolidation
> | power consumption could be reduced even further.
> |
> | [...]
> |
> | Hardware requirements to run Windows Vista means these consumption
> | figures will rise even futher. Schools are using computers as room
> | heaters which then need to be cooled using expensive air conditioning
> | and Modern thin-client networks could reverse this trend and are
> | available from the Open Source community and vendors of proprietary
> | software today.
> `----
>
> http://opensourceblog.itproportal.com/?p=213
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