Update FireFox Plugins

Some old Firefox plugins decrease performance dramatically ... do want to keep your FireFox plugins updated always? with these two just 4 steps !

1. Open your FireFox.

2. Visit the link https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
3. The Site will check all your plugins automatically.
4. Choose the plugins you find that it is outdated , then press update.
visit the link  Keeping your third-party plugins up to date helps Firefox run safely and smoothly.

Green IT Policy

Definition
Green IT is the study and practice of using computing resources efficiently, a green data center is the data center which maximizes energy efficiency and minimizes environmental impact.

All of us need to make a difference in bringing in reforms and rethinking ways of optimizing equipment rather than purchasing newer equipment. If scaling up is expected, it is important to consider energy-efficient computing products.

You can’t reduce it 

if you don’t measure it !

If a server consumes 300 watts of power, that’s 2.62 megawatt hours/server/year (300*24*365) then taking calculations forward converting electricity consumption into CO2 Emissions (Carbon dioxide "is the most prevalent greenhouse gas from the production of electricity.") It is equivalent to 1.755 tons of CO2, which is equivalent to CO2 emission resulting from driving a car for over 9500 kilometers!

Extra Loads comes from the AC’s!

Yes, all our data centers for sure needs air-conditioning systems, servers and pc’s at the datacenters getting warm in that closed place that we must cool it down in order to keep it running 24x7 smoothly. The AC systems is the second monster that makes your IT Room is not green, for normal AC used technics the old AC’s using the old Freon R12, R22 gas types, that use more energy to get you the desired temperature, new gas R410 is less reactive with the environment while having the same home cooling characteristics and it is using less energy consumption.

My Green Policy solution in a snap

1- Use Heat pumps instead of normal AC’s, specially with under floor cooling water pipes, such as Altherma from Daikin.
2- Use Virtualization Servers and Virtual Workstations that act as interfaces or supporting PC’s.
3- Use Desktop Virtualization with ultra-small, secure thin clients.
4- Install measurement devices for temperature and humidity continuous measurement.
5- Consult a periodic Energy Audit to be aware of your consumption, and know your devices health status.
6- Depend of LED lighting systems instead of any other lighting bulbs, even the ones called ‘economy energy saver light bulb’ or Compact Fluorescent.
7- Use the new type of server housing known as the “Cold Corridor ® “. The cold corridor cabinets and housing allows the cold flow from air conditioning and the warm air flows from the servers to be separated in the most effective way, that also reduce the downtime of equipment.
8- Move your old telephony PBX racks to IP based PBX telephony solution that will generate savings in power usage and call costs as well.
9- Set the office equipment automated power control, such as copiers, faxes in offices are not always used by staff because of inconvenience in waiting for equipment to return to an operational state.
10- Add motion activated sensors to light the places not used frequently inside the data centers.

Wishing that you start apply that green policy everywhere, 

frequently ask yourself how green IT I am?

Net-Zero Energy Buildings proofed @ Kaynaklar Konaklari !

Kaynaklar Konaklari is the kind of future home that every one dreams about, not only for the full facilities and the automation controls, but as a real ECO building with Net-Zero-Energy...

This month our own build Energy Auditing System the EDITO Project, has measured the accurate energy results and proofed that Kaynaklar Konaklari is on the super energy saving track,

Since the summer started with hot strikes, the energy consumed for the 24x7 Central Cooling shows the average is 0.90 Kw/hour !! yes believe it or not , it is true, the Kaynaklar Konaklari is in the BEQ index (Building Energy Quotient) of Net-Zero-Energy !

Compared by the energy acquired from the photovoltaic units. you can verify live result now on the new energy module of the EDITO Project here: http://energy.star-tr.com/

Please join our group on Facebook for more information about Kaynaklar Konaklari the first real Net-Zero-Energy ECO buildings in Izmir, Turkey Kaynaklar Konaklari

Goolge Power Meter

Google Power Meter, Is a project supported by the US government, actually it was based on president Obama’s first agenda topics before he became a president for the US.

The project aim is to build smart grids all over the US, they started with California, Texas, and some other states as well. The main reasons are:

1- Creating a new Energy Trend by using a clean Energy source for every house (like PV's or Photovoltaic) or by another renewable energy sources.
2- Cutting the high demand for Energy Consumptions
3- Reduce the cost of Energy Transmission which cost the government and also decrease the electromagnetic fields that accompany the High Voltage carriers.

4- Creating New Jobs for Green Energy industries i.e EV’s (Electrical Vehicles) etc.
5- Helping each house supported by this program to know and measure a real time data, what cause the high indoors consumptions.


6- Getting rid of the old machines that cause high energy at the home and replace them for free with new ones carrying an Energy Star labels.
7- Change the old grid systems that were built years ago with old technology, to be more living and measurable in order to getting accurate data about its performance, and power efficiency, thus it carry now the name Smart Grids.
8- Get accurate energy bills for the customers, instead of the old systems that cause wrong billing issues, due to the mentioned points.
9- Reduce the carbon footprint
10- Directing the citizen’s awareness for the energy demands to see a clear “what’s up” vision in their life styles without changing the lifestyle quality itself.


The matter is not about only saving, or green environment, but as a new life era!

The Idea can be done by yourself @ home, simply monitor your daily electrical index, and see what device you used that day that cause a major increase than usual, then you decide a better optimum device usage, or to change a part of that device, or change the device totally with an Energy Star labeled device,

i.e: Your Fridge is too old that consume so much power, you can only change the compressor with an "A" energy labeled compressor that suits that model (if applicable) !

Also most of us in hot summer days, we power the A/C units at 20 degrees , thinking that it will cool the space soon !! but the fact it will not ! simply because the ambient temperature is too hot that will cause the compressor to work continuously and will make you pay more !! but if you used it at 23-24 degree, the compressor will go on/off automatically thus saves your money and keeping your compressor life more !

WHY YOU DON'T START TODAY ??

De facto Vs De Jour - Internet Censorship LOSE !

Suddenly Internet users in Turkey found they can open blocked sites like youtube.com, and even Thepiratebay ! sure the users wonder, where the Censorship it was before ? I guess the answer is because they face now the 3G Wars of the GSM operators who opens everything, so why a customer will go to subscribe to a dump ADSL line, and he/she will not be able to download music or movies he want , and even youtube !

In the open skies era, the IP war will not having a space to live or exist, simply because the technology of the internet at the late 90's was called Information superhighway !! now we have the WiMax , so what we can call it ? not an Information superhighway but we can call it , Information Light Speed ???



Bill Gates himself could not imagine that he will drive Windows 7 , from Windows 1 or even 3.11 !! Techonlogy Dreams is tomorrow's Reality , or what we IT people call it , De facto Vs De Jour !

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VLC media player 1.0.0 Released !

The best ever player has new more hidden features , and visible ones, VideoLan.Org just released its new edition version 1.0 , code named "Golden Eye" ..... the new things on this edition regardless of bug fixing issues, it have windows 7 compatibility and notification balloon while playing MP3 is more cuter ! you can obtain it from here: http://www.videolan.org