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Have you tried using thin clients or desktop virtualization? If so, could you tell us a bit about your experience?
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What are some criteria you recommend for nonprofits or libraries on when they should consider using server virtualization software like VMWare, Citrix XenServer, FreeVPS or Microsoft Windows Server 2008 with Hyper V?
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TechSoup is doing a 'Reduce Your ICT Energy Use' campaign this month (Nov. 2009) at http://www.techsoup.org/greentech/energy/. The campaign is encouraging everyone to turn power management on, on their computers so that monitors and hard drives go to sleep after 15 minutes of not being used, and the system goes to sleep after 30 minutes of non
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Sorry, I just reread your complaint that our wording in our catalog implies that when electronics are no longer useful they should go to the landfill . We are not advocating in any way that people throw away used electronics. Could you suggest a better wording than “…while extending the life cycles of these systems and keeping harmful waste
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Thanks for you comment. We have that in there based on info from the US EPA FACT SHEET: MANAGEMENT OF ELECTRONIC WASTE IN THE UNITED STATES (http://epa.gov/osw/conserve/materials/ecycling/docs/fact7-08.pdf) Between 2003-2005, of the electronic products available for EOL management, 80-85 percent were disposed of (largely to landfills). When the EPA
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clc9052, Hope you don't mind my using your first name... If all you want to do is donate computers, rather than also receiving equipment donations or seeking grants, there's no need to create a nonprofit program. We administer something called the Community Microsoft Authorized Refurbisher (Community MAR) Program in San Francisco. Community
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Just thought I'd see how hard it has been for people to try out Second Life. We just published a TechSoup GreenTech blog post called <a href="http://blog.techsoup.org/node/765"> 'Second Life, a Second Opinion'</a> in which our Monica Skinner struggled to get situated in the virtual world and start doing constructive
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Just curious - has anyone used Microsoft Communicator for video conferencing? If so was it hard to set-up? How was the user experience with over 5 conferees? -jim
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Thomas, This is very helpful. Thank you so much for taking the time to write up your experience with Michael Bolick and Specific Systems. Are you OK with our contacting them and sharing the complaint? -jim
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We just had our 'reduce paper' webinar today and talked a bunch about paperless faxing. The amount of wasted paper via faxing is staggering. I like the faxing stats on our 'Shocking Statistics' page http://www.techsoup.org/greentech/paper/page10834.cfm The question is: why doesn't everyone switch over to online or paperless faxing