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Varied and sundry

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Varied and sundry June 1, 2007 It’s been a week of mostly not work, which is a nice rest. He suggested, basically, find the publisher first, then talk about the license second. That feels good.

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Linux, Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, and Me

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Week 1 I should have taken pictures – unboxing a new laptop is a lot of fun. My first step was to make sure the laptop booted. I stopped at the license agreement. I’ll understand points of pain, for sure. I got a Lenovo Thinkpad Z61m. Good specs, cheap price. It booted fine.

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Does the Used IT Market Have a Future?

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During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. And indeed sales of new PCs and laptops are declining. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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Is the Used Computer Market Going Away?

Tech Soup

By "post-PC," Jobs meant essentially that computing and Internet use for both work and pleasure will no longer be dominated by PCs, but that there will be an array of smart devices including smartphones, tablet computers, smart TVs, laptops, and even sensing devices in our clothes and cars and other every day items.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. I think it can also work for the folks who perhaps use laptops as their primary machines, and don’t do anything except email and web. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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Why TechSoup Product Donations and Donors Are Green

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It has reduced its greenhouse gas emissions 30 percent since 2007, and Cisco wants to bring this reduction up to 40 percent in the next couple of years. Symantec donated more than 432,000 licenses reaching more than 23,000 organizations in 29 countries last year. Symantec: Focusing Even More on the Environment in 2015.

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The Environmental and Cost Savings Benefits of Windows MultiPoint Server

Tech Soup

In this blog post, I'll compare costs and energy usage for a WMS setup versus a conventional setup in which every user has a laptop or desktop computer. WMS can also use legacy hardware, such as old laptops or desktop computers. This can cost up to $199 for Windows Professional commercial licensing, for example.

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