IT System admins/managers - please consider

Ok, firstly I’m no raving hippie. I am just trying to do some good here. I don’t want this thread to turn into a climate crisis debate.

I have begun an initiative in my company to have all workstation PC's shut down at 6pm automatically. Why you ask?

This is to save unnecessary power use overnight. Users company wide are in the habit of locking the workstation overnight. Luckily I have the backing of senior managers as there is a dollar benefit also.
http://www.microsoft.com/smallbusi [...] night.mspx


I subscribe to the precautionary principle on climate change. There are plenty of sources, but here is one for reference.
http://www.cs.ntu.edu.au/homepages [...] fs202.html

I am currently having the following application scripted for SMS distribution. The software is free for any use (you just can’t sell it) and source is available for those interested.
http://www.dennisbabkin.com/php/download.php?what=TOff

Also consider stickers to remind users to turn off their monitor.

Users running calculations or other activities overnight will be able to opt out.
If an application is not suitable in your environment please consider a group policy or similar measure.

If you need some motivation on why this is and should be our collective IT responsibility then please watch An Inconvenient Truth or Google some of these:
Arctic melt
Glacier melt
Amazon dieback
Stern report
An Inconvenient Truth 8O

Hopefully all 80,000 PC’s in my company worldwide (yes 80,000) will have this software installed by February 2007. That’s going to be a BIG dollar saving to the company – I’d love to see an estimate on how much carbon that equates to.

Have a nice day.

Here, since everyone is slow on the draw today...

DIE, NOOB, DIE!

Edit: I wonder how much faster the computer components will burn out because of the frequent power on and off. From my experience it will also result in a higher occurance of hard drive failure too.

Nah, I did a study a few years back. You waste more money by turning the computers off dumbass.

Now, everyone come to work, turns their computer on, walks around while it takes a minute to boot. They waste 5 minutes doing nothing because they can't get right to work. Figure that math out and you just cost your company a lot of money.

Plus, by not turning your computer off, less people will buy a newspaper in the morning because they don't have time to read it.

Its people like you that are focking up the earth.

Well, I'm IT. I work on a laptop.. everything is fast until all the IBM siht has to load up. The sad part is I need these programs because the rest I uninstalled.
My last job was at an engineering firm. We bought computers all the time.

Here? We do data entry mainly.. so, of course, we're buying people who don't even know how to use a computer top end Dell Dimension e520. 1GB memory, cd-rws, etc. It comes out to be about $900 per computer, which is really cheap.

Anyhow.. turning the computers on and off at the same time can also put a strain on your electrical and power system if everything popped on at the same time.

Last job, we had so many computers and 20" monitors running that the HVAC system had a program that calculated the heat generated by the computers and countered it to keep a certain temp. In the winter, we didn't need the heat as much, the AC could kick on at times, summer, it was AC all day. Neat stuff.

I know. Group Policy in Active Directory will allow you to do that. Same features available on a Mac.

With tits that like, there are a handful people here still trying to hack your computer for the pictures.

Its cool, I've seen your photobucket. Before you made it private.

Try running that sleep mode in XP on a 1.2 Ghz S370 Celeron with 128MB of PC100.

1, My phone alerts me that I have an email
2, I switch on my pc to collect it
3, It's a mail telling me there is a new post in the other
4, I find you have just cost me money and helped warm the planet

Congratulations!

Global warming will only help get rid of Norfolk and some land Holland stole from the sea.

You made it private?