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Composting 101 - How To Compost Without Much Effort (zip): Composting 101 was written to give you an easy to understand way to start composting. With our easy guide, you'll be saving 20-30% of your trash from the landfill and using it to make rich, natural fertilizer for your garden. According to the EPA, America produces approximately 220 million tons...; Tags: Indiana, Trash, Landfill, Garbage; Software downloads 2007-07-03
Is a PC landfill tax inevitable?: Stay on top of the latest tech news with our free IT News Digest newsletter, delivered each weekday. Automatically sign up today!By ...; Tags: Taxes, Free trade, PRODUCTIVITY, Monitors & displays, PC, Thompson, landfill, tax, CRT, computer; Technical articles 2005-02-22
OEMs and recycling programs offer green alternatives for PC disposal: Unlike PC hobbyists, businesses can't afford to be computer packrats. Eventually, old equipment must go; often, it's to the landfill. But there are other options. OEMs and recycling programs promise environmentally-friendly computer disposal. Here's how.The recycling and trade-in programs that many original equipment manufacturers OEMs have implemented are an outgrowth...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, PC, University of Tennessee, Mike Walton, computer, OEM, landfill, manufacturer, Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition; Technical articles 2002-02-15

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Six ways HP helps IT support environmental initiatives: Many companies have been talking about being green lately, but HP's been quietly doing something about it for years. Read this paper to find out more about the company's 20-year commitment to manufacturing and retiring its products in an environmentally responsible manner. You'll learn about the...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Information Technology; White papers 2007-08-01
Geek Trivia: Last but not Lisa: LISAI was under the impression it was self referencing:Lisa Is Superior ArchitectureLISa is not dead!!!!She is alive and kicking..on linux. ]:)http://lisa-home.sourceforge.net/"LISa is a small daemon which is intended to run on end user systems. It provides something like a "network neighbourhood", but onlyrelying on the TCP/IP protocol stack, no smb...; Tags: Lisa, ffulton, career, Amiga; Discussion threads 2006-01-17

E-Junk: I am from South Africa, we do not have propper sites for the destruction of E-junk (computers,etc.).I had a brainwave about using an old mine shaft for this purpose, with the help of a gold melting plant to melt down these products.The raw product can be thrown down this shaft.What...; Tags: computer; Discussion threads 2005-04-27
HP Pavilion 8565-power/switch problem?: This PC's harddrive died. I installed a new 80gig and plugged the cables in (the old drive remains because I can't get to the screws on the back side - but it is not plugged in). After reassembling the case the power switch won't work. No lights, nothing at...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., HP Pavilion, multimeter, power switch, SamuraiTailor, swITch; Q&A 2005-01-12
Keeping electronics out of the landfill: Getting rid of old electronics, particularly computers, is a huge issue for large businesses. Sarbanes-Oxley mandates that these companies take reasonable steps to destroy any data on their computers, as they can be liable if confidential data is retrieved from these devices. In some places, such as California,...; Tags: Regulation, Electronics, Computer, Productivity, Gender And Diversity, Human Resources, Andy Moon; Blog posts 2008-01-08
Geek Trivia: Game over and under: In what legendary way did Atari deal with the mass Pac-Man and E.T. cartridge returns of 1982? Editor's note: The Trivia Geek is on extended leave, but he did get off his slacker butt long enough to pull this Classic Geek, which originally ran on Jan. 4, 2005, from...; Tags: Atari Inc., Games, Jay Garmon, Game players, game, Geek Trivia Newsletter, Console, Video Game, Editor, Pac-Man, E.T., Personal Technology; Technical articles 2006-12-19
Three free bug-tracking tools: Every involved development effort should track bugs. No money? No excuse! Try one of these three free tools: Bugzilla, JitterBug, or RT: Request Tracker.Everyone’s development budget is tight these days, but that’s no excuse to skimp on project essentials like bug tracking. These three free bug-tracking tools can help keep...; Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Linux, Microsoft Windows, E-mail, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Shelley Doll, tool, Bugzilla, JitterBug; Technical articles 2002-08-21
My Desktop PC is dead but I'd like to retrieve the data in it....: how do I go about doing this?? I have a dead Emachines w2888 Desktop (only a 2 1/2 years old mind you) that won't power up for anything. I have analyzed my options and went with the best one and that is to purchase a new PC vs...; Tags: Desktops, Games, fcui21@..., desktop, desktop computer, eMachine, new machine, PC, hard drive, Serial ATA; Discussion threads 2007-05-06
Good Use for Not -too Old hardware: Recently, The motherboard on my pretty fast gateway dual core machine got fried by lightning. I researched the cost of a new motherboard and found that the cheapest board was $200. Instead of getting the new board, Instead I purchased a refurbished Dual Core gateway machine from TigerDirect.com for $350....; Tags: mraftice@..., new machine, old machine, Serial ATA; Discussion threads 2007-07-09
end of life: Just a question for the brainiacs out there. I am faced with a evergrowing pile of used computers. There are almost all obsolete. I have many CRT monitors and P II or III processors. The computers aren't worth a whole lot, but I don't want to...; Tags: Monitors & displays, POSTER, computer; Q&A 2006-01-23
Is it 'lights out' for e-mail?: Root of the ProblemYou cannot have your bank account automatically stolen by a piece of paper. Junk mail is a fact of life, but most people throw it away without concern.(This has problems in terms of credit card and loan offers being possible sources of credit fraud [so-called "identity...; Tags: e-mail; Discussion threads 2005-11-15
Who is responsible for confidential faxes sent to wrong number?: Who is responsible for confidential faxes sent to wrong number?Prudential Insurance is in the news becuase doctors and clinics were faxing confidential patient recordss to another company with an almost identical fax number. If you are the company receiving the faxes in error, what are your obligations toward the...; Tags: Prudential Insurance Company of America, fax, security, ethics, faxes, prudential, jesc, it management, Prudential Insurance, HIPAA; Discussion threads 2006-02-07
U.S. Postal Service goes green with free mail-in recycling service for electronics: In 10 metro areas across the country, the United States Postal Service has launched a new pilot program that allows people to submit old inkjet cartridges, toner cartridges, and small electronics for proper disposal and recycling via free pre-paid mailers that customers can pick up at Post Office branches. If...; Tags: Battery, Electronics, U.S. Postal Service, Postal Service, Yeoman, Engineering, Jason Hiner; Blog posts 2008-03-19
disposal of old (obselete) equipment: Does anyone have suggestions about how to get rid of some very(!) outdated equipment? I'm talking about 2 working "mini-computers" that the manufacturer has long since been out of business. I suppose they could be disassembled and put in the dumpster but I don't feel right about the...; Tags: Semiconductors, computer; Discussion threads 2005-02-10
what is the "best" backup device: Hi, I am currently using an HP Colorado Travan tape backup with Colorado Backup II. Backups consist of approx. 1.5gb compressed. I have been having problems lately with errors during overwrite backups. Append backups are okay.So anyway I was thinking of going to an external USB drive or something maybe...; Tags: Backups, Backup-to-Disk, Rick H, backup, hard drive; Discussion threads 2007-08-20
Is a PC landfill tax inevitable?: Is a PC landfill tax inevitable?article rootWEEE regulationsIf thew USA follows the lead in Europe that makes the organisation disposing of equipment liable in law for its safe disposal then the problems described in the article will disappear!Did the author of this even read the legislation?From the article:"The tax would...; Tags: computer, gregdance, old computer, PC, tax; Discussion threads 2005-02-25
CTIA Wireless 2008 goes almost green: I've been attending tech conferences from the past 10 years and have always been dumbfounded by the mountains of paper these events waste. I would wager most of the show guides, press releases, product brochures, and expo floor maps end up in a landfill instead of being recycled. Yet as...; Tags: Attendee, CTIA, CTIA Wireless 2008, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Bill Detwiler; Blog posts 2008-04-09

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