Today, you’ll notice that several sites including Wikipedia Google, Reddit, Boing Boing, Craigslist and several others have “gone dark” for a while or tweaked elements of their sites to combat SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect IP Act) legislation that’s currently worming its way through Congress. What compelled them to do that? Simply, [...]
Read more Please don’t break the Internet, stop SOPA and PIPA
In honor of Steve Jobs. Thanks for dissolving the barriers between man, machine and endless possibilities. Image credit: Apple
Read more Steve Jobs, 1955-2011
It was hard to find a Green IT angle on this genius post at evilrouters.net, but I think I found it. Under the In Progress section, Deforester! Resist the urge to print, folks. Not only do you save energy and paper, you improve productivity by avoiding the Easter egg hunt that has become the paper [...]
Read more LOL of the day: Achievement Unlocked!
Now multiply that by your company’s headcount and the brilliance of Jen Indovina’s passion for automating the waste reduction process becomes a little contagious. On Friday, TED Blog’s Alana Herro posted an interview with Indovina, the inventor behind PICOwatt, a wireless smart plug that targets energy wasters and vampire power and can be controlled over [...]
What are hot/cold air aisles? They are a way of orienting server racks and erecting physical barriers so that hot and cold air are segregated, allowing cooling systems to work more efficiently. The point of this layout is to…
Read more How To Roundup: Hot/Cold Aisles
So it is. Unearth the craziness hidden in your name here. [via Download Squad]…
Read more Off Topic: My Name Anagram
The host of Discovery Channel’s Build it Bigger, Danny Forster, designed a single family home that earned a LEED gold certification from the U.S. Green Building Council. He eschews pricey tech for the most part, relying instead on efficient design…
Read more Danny Forster Designs LEED Gold Home
Join me in wishing your favorite IT guy or gal a Happy Sysadmin Day!And you better! Who recovered that super important presentation or report that salvaged your career? Who turned a blind eye to your NSFW lapses online? Who pulled…
Read more Happy Sysadmin Day!
Sure it’s clouds, and ocean, and more clouds… Oh look, a land mass! But hit the HD button, and catch a crystal clear glimpse of why this green thing is taking off. Not a bad cause to support, right? [via…
This work by Pedro Hernandez is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.
