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APRIL 17, 2017

In his book Natural Capitalism , Paul Hawkin finds that the amount of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a five-pound laptop, you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Giving up, a little August 6, 2007 As you might know, I migrated from using a MacBook Pro laptop as my primary desktop, to eating my own dogfood, as it were, and using Ubuntu Linux as my primary desktop.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a 5 pound laptop you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# I knew that I should do it at some point, but I hadn’t encountered a WPA network until last week, so I hadn’t bothered. Needless to say, I’m doing that right now. Directories were shared.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

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. But here’s Ubuntu week 1, not edited or smoothed out. 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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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

Paul Hawkin, in his book, Natural Capitalism , finds that the volume of material that goes into manufacturing a laptop is 4,000 to 1. When you discard a 5 pound laptop you are also throwing away the 20,000 pounds of raw materials it took to make it. The green argument for electronics reuse goes beyond Williams and Kuehr, however.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I’m relatively happy, and, surprisingly enough, I don’t miss using the mac everyday. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 28, 2005

I had her laptop open, and I saw a "Ford_F350" network come, and go. Anyway, as the bus rolls by, I see "PVTA_0333" come up on the MacStumbler, then leave! Yeah, really, really! It reminds me of the time a friend of mine and I were driving to Rhode Island on the highway. Maybe faster than we think. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. And, of course, there are some other situations where Linux also shines: kiosks, internet cafes, computer labs and email/web workstations. And, guess what? I’m giving up. And, of course, always, for developers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Every now and then, we like to predict what's on the tech horizon. No Internet of Things (IoT) or big data. There are now lots of laptops available that are less than $200 — like HP Streams, Acer Aspires, and too many Chrome books to count. What they said may surprise you. Cheaper Consumer Electronics.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. 39% of Internet users, or about 57 million American adults, read blogs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simple app development. Symfony November 6, 2008 In my new explorations of PHP web application development, it seemed a good idea to get a look at both CakePHP and Symfony. Both of them seem to be PHP’s answer to Ruby on Rails. The approaches are similar and different to each other.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

That said, to be alerted of new low-cost or free resources and tools available for nonprofits, please subscribe to the Nonprofit Tech for Good 2.0 This tool allows nonprofits to easily create Web-based Internet “TV” stations. Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: web.archive.org. Google Internet Stats :: google.co.uk/intl/internetstats.

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