Tag Archives: green ICT

Munich’s Linux desktop saves millions and is more robust

Posted on 17/04/2012 by Steve Woods

Joinup reports that figures provided by Munich’s Mayor, Christian Ude, reveal that switching to a Linux-based open source desktop reduces costs and results in fewer calls to help desks, and that replacing the current pool of almost 10,000 open source … Continue reading →

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Linux Lounge now on Twitter

Posted on 01/11/2011 by Steve Woods

Last week, the lab was pleased to receive a visit from BW member John Palfrey. For those who don’t know him, John is the owner of the Linux Lounge (news passim), an old double-decker bus which he’s refurbished and kitted … Continue reading →

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Green ICT and Bristol Wireless

Posted on 22/10/2011 by Steve Woods

A couple of days ago, Bristol24/7 reported that Bristol is entering the race to be Europe’s top green city in 2014, so it’s perhaps appropriate to have a look at what Bristol Wireless can do as regards green IT (although, … Continue reading →

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Indian company launches solar-powered Linux desktop

Posted on 22/07/2011 by Steve Woods

Here at Bristol Wireless we’re keen advocates on green ICT and have many times experienced the delights of providing off-mains event ICT powered by renewables (news passim), so were overjoyed to hear of a recent development in India. India’s Simmtronics … Continue reading →

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A trip to BarnCamp 2011

Posted on 15/06/2011 by Steve Woods

On Monday the advance crew – by now known as the tat-down team and consisting mostly of Bristol Wireless volunteers – arrived back tired but satisfied from the rural Barncamp site up the Wye Valley. Our journey began the previous … Continue reading →

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The pizza box laptop

Posted on 20/05/2011 by Steve Woods

Bristol Wireless are advocates of green ICT and constantly urge people to refurbish and re-use hardware where possible before recycling or buying new kit. Nevertheless, we were most intrigued to come across the laptop in a pizza box illustrated below … Continue reading →

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LTSP round-up

Posted on 20/05/2011 by Steve Woods

Earlier this week our 2 LTSP gurus, BenG and Acesabe, were busy configuring and preparing a new LTSP suite comprising some donated redundant Rock Clevo T200C laptops as the thin clients. These run on 12 volts and are being made … Continue reading →

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The Bento Box laptop

Posted on 08/05/2011 by Steve Woods

Don’t ever let anyone convince you that techies survive on pizza, coffee and various flavours of ethyl alcohol. Here at Bristol Wireless, some of us are also great aficionados of Japanese food. Hence we were very interested by the announcement … Continue reading →

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Bath Uni installs Britain’s first local DC computer network on campus

Posted on 24/03/2011 by Steve Woods

Over the Christmas vacation, Bath University took advantage of the absence of students to install 50 new computers on the 5th floor of its library. These new machines are faster, smaller, quieter and generally better to use, as well as … Continue reading →

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The Digital Challenge is dead, but Momentum Group is harder to kill than a vampire

Posted on 14/12/2010 by Steve Woods

Yesterday, Rich, Jules and yours truly were representing Bristol Wireless at a Connecting Bristol event (news passim) at the Watershed entitled ‘The Digital Challenge is Over – The Digital Opportunity is Here’. It was good to see some old (not … Continue reading →

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