Re: [News] Greenpeace Criticises Microsoft Over Environmental Issues

[Rafael <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Greenpeace: Vista could trigger a deluge of electronic waste
>
> ,----[ Quote ]
> | Beau Baconguis of the Southeast Asia section of the environmental
> | protection organization Greenpeace has warned that the introduction
> | by Microsoft of its new operating system Windows Vista might as a
> | side effect trigger a deluge of electronic waste (E-waste). "With
> | Vista, Microsoft could effectively hasten the obsolesence of half
> | the world's PCs, especially in the absence of fully-functioning
> | global take back systems for PCs," Ms. Baconguis declared.
> `----
>
> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/84816/from/rss09
>
> Microsoft, like many of its allies, thrive in waste. Linux is not a company,
> so we don't have this problem.

See:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.linux.advocacy/msg/24f4127e9c30b999

> True.  Here is an odd bit of information.  Wake on LAN
> technology has been around for a while as a green feature for
> PC's, yet until Microsoft SCCM (System Center Configuration
> Manager) 2007 is deployed, earlier Systems Management Server
> (SMS) 2003 required a third party solution to wake up PC's for
> patches.
>
> http://www.faqshop.com/sms2003/default.htm?http://www.faqshop.
> com/sms2003/sms2k3otherindex.htm
>
> or http://tinyurl.com/gw6kl
>
> | Does SMS 2003 Support Wake-on-LAN?
> |      
> | Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
> | SMS does not support Wake-On-LAN out of the box.  However
> | SMSWakeUp from 1E is an integrated product that provides
> | this functional> ity:
> |
> |   http://www.1e.com/smswakeup
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sms/sms2003/techf
> aq/tfaq13.mspx
>
> or
>
> | Q.  Does SMS 2003 support Wake on LAN technology?
> | A.  Wake on LAN technology allows a computer to enter a
> | powered-down or sleep state, but enter an active state upon
> | receiving specific network packets. SMS 2003 does not
> | currently include Wake on LAN technology, though there are
> | some third-party applications that provide Wake on LAN
> | within SMS.
>
> I have always wondered why some corporate shops kept their
> PC's powered up 24 hours a day, when there was potential to
> save energy by putting them in sleep mode, to be awaken by the
> server.
>
> 1.7 GHz PC at idle consumes approximately 60 Watts.
>
> A corporate or educational campus with 1,000 PC's:
>
> 60 Watts/PC x 1,000 PC's x 24 hours/day x 365 days/year x .001
> kilo-Watt-hours/Watt-hours = 525,600 kWh.
>
> East Coast US cost of $0.125 per kWh nets annual cost of
> $65,700 or 35,478 GBP required to keep PC's powered up
> annually.

Please note, costs do not include increased air conditioning required 
due to increased heat gain.  Newer dual core PC's have increased heat 
gain.  Some of the newer accelerated video graphics cards have forced 
convective cooling via fan, to get rid of heat.  Newer hard disks put 
out more heat.  Larger power supplies to power these power hungry beasts 
add heat gain.  Some motherboards have forced cooling on main chipset, 
due to increased heat gain.  What heat is shed by these units through 
their internal air circulating systems becomes heat gain to the rooms 
these components occupy.

The added hardware requirements of Vista will consume more power and 
produce more heat, which must be dealt with by increased air 
conditioning cooling.

Use of thin clients make sense as those do not put out as much heat. 
Inclusion of utility costs during the life cycle can be used to one's 
advantage when proposing IT solutions where cost savings are being 
considered.  It is part of the total picture.

> How Windows XP Wasted $25 Billion of Energy
>
> http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/11/how_windows_xp.phpRelated

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