If you think about sheer performance-per-watt potential, it’s pretty hard to beat a supercomputer. So any company with gargantuan transaction processing needs might want to scout the latest Green500 list for insight.
This list was brought to my attention by SGI, which has 11 entries in the top 100 greenest systems: all of SGI’s entries [...]

Finavera Renewables (which has both wind and wave energy projects around the world) has negotiated a deal with an unnamed corporate investor who plans to put up $1 bilion for wind power projects that will create up to 300 megawatts of capacity in British Columbia.
The money is contingent on the approval of a power purchase [...]

I’ve been trying out organic wines over the past few months because of my growing intolerance for sulfites, but I never really thought about what that meant until I watched one of the ZDNet Green Enterprise videos this weekend.
In the case of Frog’s Leap Winery, organic doesn’t just mean staying away from fertilizers and [...]

“EcoSearch this” doesn’t have quite the same ring as “Google this,” but the non-profit is hoping to harness the power of the Google search engine to help raise money for environmental non-profits including the Sierra Club, TreePeople, RainForest Alliance, National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Healthy Child, Healthy World and the Remedee Foundation.
So, [...]

Heard from someone this morning with another place where you might donate your old mobile phone, when you’re looking to upgrade. The 911 Cell Phone Bank out of Ocala, Fla., is another non-profit who distributes phones for emergency purposes to crime victims, people in witness protection programs and senior citizens in need. According to the [...]

Here’s a resource for the lazy among you or just the ones who don’t want to waste a whole lot of fuel driving your old electronics to the nearest tech-savvy recycling center. I don’t even know where mine is, but the last time there was a nearby recycling event, it was at least 10 miles [...]

Instead of moving your hand from keyboard to mouse and back again, use these handy Windows shortcut keys to get there faster.

These shortcut keys apply to Vista, Windows XP and even Windows Server products

Windows system key combinations

Windows program key combinations

Mouse click/keyboard modifier combinations for shell objects

General keyboard-only commands

Shell objects and general folder/Windows Explorer shortcuts

For a selected object:

To copy a file

Press and hold down the CTRL key while you drag the file to another folder.

To create a shortcut

Press and hold down CTRL+SHIFT while you drag a file to the desktop or a folder.

General folder/shortcut control

Windows Explorer tree control

Properties control

Accessibility shortcuts

Microsoft Natural Keyboard keys

Microsoft Natural Keyboard with IntelliType software installed

Dialog box keyboard commands

This list was copied from the Microsoft web site at: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/126449

This story from the Environmental Leader is perfectly timed, considering the overwhelming media din over today’s iPhone launch.

According to a timed survey released by Nokia, it seems that only three percent of people opting for a new mobile phone actually recycle the old ones when they get upgrade-lust, even though that have become, in effect, [...]

The Windows Update that came out yesterday (July 8, 2008) somehow causes ZoneAlarm to not be able to get out to the Internet.

I could ping a web site address but could not browse to it.

Update July 11: Here’s Zone Alarm’s Fix (7.0.483.000): http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/cfu/en/zassAEN.html?ver=70_483_000&oem=1025_zl&offer=offer_pctuneup_en

Here’s more info from Zone Alarm: http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/free/pressReleases/2008/LossOfInternetAccessIssue.html

If all you’ve done at this point is to disable ZoneAlarm, here’s a fix;

• Open up Control Panel, Add Remove Programs
• Click the box at the top for  Show Updates
• Scroll down (for me close to the bottom) and find Security Update for Windows XP (KB951748)
• Remove it
• Reboot

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I’ve been as guilty as the next person about talking up solid state drives (or SSDs, as they are unfortunately called by the techno-babblists) as a wonderful device for reducing power consumption AND weight in notebooks. And any other system for that matter. But, fact is, I don’t have any review capabilities. So, I feel [...]