Archive for March, 2010
Eco-Friendly PC Disposal
Posted by: | CommentsWhat do you do with old PCs, cell phones and other e-devices? Staples has an eco-friendly disposal program. Dell products are free as are cell phones and some other devices. Other PCs, laptops cost about $10 US. They also destroy the data on the drives.
Be friendly to the planet when you dispose of old PCs!
http://www.staples.com/sbd/cre/marketing/ecoeasy/index2.html
What do you do with old PCs, cell phones and other e-devices? Staples has a eco-friendly disposal program. Dell products are free as are cell phones and some other devices. Other PCs, laptops cost about $10 US. They also destroy the data on the drives.
Be friendly to the planet when you dispose of old PCs!
What is an open web?
Posted by: | CommentsThe following challenge was on my Firefox homepage today:
Creating an open web is at the heart of the Mozilla project. And you’re a part of that. As one of thousands of people in the project, you have worked tirelessly to keep the Internet open, participatory and full of life.
The question is: why? Why do you participate? Why does the open web matter so much to you?
As we work to grow the Mozilla community, we want to explain what you’re feeling to everyone — your neighbours, your co-workers, your grandparents. We want them to understand the open web.
I just shared my definition of what an Open Web means to me. Why don’t you share yours?
http://mozilla.org/open
#mozopen
Click read more to see my response
Move User Profile to 2nd Drive in Win 7
Posted by: | CommentsWell, this was an interesting foray into Windows 7. I just purchased a new laptop and didn’t like the way the hard drive was partitioned. Why partition an NTFS drive at all? The manufacturer had created an 80 GB primary partition with a 420 GB extended partition. Of course the OS and user profiles are stored on the relatively small primary partition. This I did not like. I put a lot of music on my laptop, along with my development projects and multimedia files. 80 GB just won’t cut it. I could have purchased 3rd party software to repartition the drives (Win 7’s built in tool won’t do the job here) but I didn’t want to do that. The solution? Move the files to the d: drive and create a symbolic (hard) link to new location.
