Green IT vs. Green IS

From: Jenkin, Webster & McShane, 2009

Green IT, which addresses energy consumption and waste associated with the use of hardware and software, tends to have a direct impact. Examples of Green IT applications include improving the energy efficiency of hardware and data centers, consolidating servers using virtualization software, and reducing the waste associated with obsolete equipment (Boudreau, Chen, & Huber, 2008).

Green IS, on the other hand, refers to the development and use of information systems to support or enable environmental sustainability initiatives and, thus, tends to have an indirect impact. Examples of Green IS applications include: collaborative group software and telepresence systems to enable remote meetings and reduce the environmental impacts associated with travel; environmental information systems (EIS: http://www.isess.org/) to track and monitor environmental variables such as waste, emissions, toxicity, water consumption, and carbon footprints; and supply chain systems to optimize product routing and transportation, thus reducing the amount of energy consumed moving products (Boudreau et al., 2008).

Conceptual model Vs. Theoretical framework

This can be very confusing sometimes. I found others are also facing the same problem. The answer to the posed question (shown below) is pretty good I think. 


Can anyone explain the difference between a theoretical framework and a conceptual model?

I’m writing my thesis proposal and I thought I had completed it, but one of my committee members came back and told me to include a theoretical framework. I’ve looked through the literature and I have found both theoretical framework and conceptual model, so what’s the difference? Funny, they never introduced these terms in my research class.

One Comment on “Can anyone explain the difference between a theoretical framework and a conceptual model?”

fourthitude

One of your committee members just wanted to sound authoritative. LOL.

In very layman’s language, I’d say that the theoretical framework would be the structure of your suppositions (theories) relating to your thesis.

The conceptual model would be the, more supported by facts, model or outline of your thesis that leads up to your conclusions. Hope that helps.

from: http://www.newsfrom.us/2010/04/27/can-anyone-explain-the-difference-between-a-theoretical-framework-and-a-conceptual-model/

Climate Change Debate

Greenis_17

This is from here: http://climatedebatedaily.com/

The issue of climate change is not without opposing views. Some people are skeptical about it. The more dominant view is that, climate change is a real danger and needs to be managed properly.

The precautionary principles (UNEP, 1992 - Principle 15) apply here as climate change effects could be disastrous to mankind .. though it is not 100% certain in our life time, but who knows in future generations' lifetime, it will become real. My research basically stand in between .. we are not siding anyone .. we are for the principle of precautionary as suggested by UNEP. What if climate change is really REAL??

Green IT Virtual Event 1st - 3rd June 2010

(VIRTUAL) EVENT TO ATTEND:

GREEN IT - VIRTUAL EVENT (INTERNATIONAL GREEN IT AWARENESS WEEK)
Organized by ComputersOff.org

@ http://www.greenitweek.org/


Join us from 1 - 3 June 2010 for the Green IT Week Virtual Event

Registrations are now open for the Green IT Week Virtual Event - a three day, multi-timezone, global, online event!

Conference Agenda

Presentations will be run across multiple global time zones and can be viewed on demand if you miss the session.  Our speakers will also be available post-presentation to chat live with the audience!

With a total of 20 presentations over three days, the conference agenda is shaping up to be highly informative:

Green IT Standards

  • Application of ISO 38500 to the Green IT Agenda
  • The Green ICT Framework - Structure and Metrics
Green IT Best Practices
  • Green IT Implementation & Best Practice
  • Going Green: Quantifying the Benefits of Green IT Strategies and Solutions
  • From ICT supply chain sustainability to ICT tools that can help to measure, certify, lower the impact of the supply chain
  • Separating the facts from marketing spin: What constitutes 'Green" IT
  • What's GREEN got to do with I.T.?
  • Implementing Green IT in the Workplace: Assessing, Measuring and Monitoring your IT Footprint
  • Case Study: Lessons from implementing CSC's Sustainability programme
  • Procuring Green IT – tips and tricks to get the outcome you want
  • Paperless Workplaces - Fact or Fiction?
Data Centres & Technology
  • Case Study: Greening IT through Trigeneration
  • Case Study: The Road to Sustainable IT
  • IT Energy Efficiency 101: What General Managers Should Know
  • Case Study: How to convert offices to using thin-clients to replace PCs as a business case
  • Energy Consumption of the Internet

lifecycle, life cycle or life-cycle?

http://www.techwr-l.com/archives/0604/techwhirl-0604-00604.html

RE: lifecycle or life-cycle or life cycle

Subject: RE: lifecycle or life-cycle or life cycle
From: "Susan W. Gallagher" <sgallagher5 -at- cox -dot- net>
To: <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 09:58:31 -0700

What ever happened to the natural evolution of language? A compound
generally starts open (life cycle), migrates to hyphenated (life-cycle), and
ends up closed (lifecycle). Many of us have been in the business long enough
to remember when online help was on-line help or even "on line" help. Jeesh,
when I was a kid, there was a hyphen in cooperation!

To quote CMS 14 (sorry, 15 is at work and I'm home), para 6.38:
---begin quote---
For some years now, the trend in spelling compound words has been away from
the use of hyphens. There seems to be a tendency to spell compounds solid as
soon as acceptance warrants their being considered permanent compounds, and
otherwise to spell them open. This is a trend, not a rule, but it is
sometimes helpful, when deciding how to spell some new combination, to
remember that the trend exists.
---end quote---

So, if you believe that the two words "life" and "cycle" are a temporary
compound (and that all the fuss about it in the software industry is just a
flash in the pan <g>), leave them open. If, however, you think that
lifecycle has earned the title of permanent compound in your industry, spell
it closed.

HTH!
-Sue Gallagher

> An intelligent, literate reader will wonder whether by "lifecycle" the
> writer intended something different from "life cycle", and, if not, then
> why the writer didn't use the standard English noun. Is it because the
> writer didn't know any better and couldn't be arsed to look it up in a
> proper dictionary? Is it because of a misprint? Is there a missing
> paragraph somewhere that would have explained the similarities and
> differences between a life cycle and a "lifecycle"?

Utility to unlock some locked pdf

Sometimes, we want to copy paste some text from a PDF file .. not for plagiarism certainly. Tapi mmg nak guna for certain purposes .. like updating the GITO, a portal I help managing. Biasanya kena copy paste abstract utk reference (dalam Resources punya section). Tapi bila PDF tu dilock oleh authornya, susah le nak kena taip balik. Makan masa dan buang masa rasanya.

I found this solution from the Net:
 

Free PDF Unlock Online Utility (Beta)

Some PDF documents prevent the user from copying and pasting or printing it's contents. This sometimes presents a problem since the author of the PDF might have used a font that is not available in the system trying to read it. This page contains a free online utility that allows you to upload a PDF, once uploaded, a version of the PDF without printing or copying/pasting restrictions is displayed in a new browser window.

This great utility can be found here: http://www.ensode.net/pdf-crack.jsf

TQ to the creator of this little software. It made my managing of the GITO easier.

Kisahnya di Flinders ...

Bertemu, berpisah depan Stesen Flinders

KALI pertama saya menjejak kaki ke Melbourne, Australia pada 3 hingga 8 Oktober 2009, kali kedua pula pada 4 hingga 9 Mac lalu. Kunjungan kali pertama atas tugasan membuat liputan Australian Malaysian Film Festival 2009 (AMFF) dan kunjungan kali kedua tempoh hari 'gatal' nak bercuti.

KEBETULAN...Izhar, Adam, Jamil dan Latiff secara tidak sengaja mengabadikan kenangan depan Flinders Street Station.
KEBETULAN...Izhar, Adam, Jamil dan Latiff secara tidak sengaja mengabadikan kenangan depan Flinders Street Station.

SEJARAH...ulang tahun ke-100 Flinders Street Station pada 1954. SEJARAH...ulang tahun ke-100 Flinders Street Station pada 1954. KLASIK...kereta kuda menambah variasi Melbourne. KLASIK...kereta kuda menambah variasi Melbourne. UNIK...Australian Centre For The Moving Image. UNIK...Australian Centre For The Moving Image.

SEJARAH...ulang tahun ke-100 Flinders Street Station pada 1954.

Kunjungan pada Oktober lalu turut disertai Penerbit Eksekutif TV3, Jamil Hassan atas undangan Persatuan Penerbit Filem Malaysia (PFM) dan A2K Media PTY LTD selaku penganjur AMFF dengan kerjasama Lineclear Motion Picture Sdn Bhd (LCMP). Turut sama AJK Penyelidikan dan Pemasaran Antarabangsa PFM juga Penerbit Eksekutif LCMP, Abdul Latiff Mohaideen yang menaiki penerbangan Air Asia bersama kami.


Setiap kita yang pernah ke Melbourne mempunyai persepsi serta cita rasa tersendiri di ibu negeri Victoria itu. Saya dan Jamil cuma bergantung pada Latiff yang kami gelar 'Penghulu Melbourne' tetapi pada pagi hari pertama di sana, kami berdua lebih selesa melilau dengan cara sendiri.


Bukan apa, sebagai orang media, terlanjur AMFF belum dirasmikan di The Cube, Australian Centre For The Moving Image (ACMI), inilah peluang mencuri masa. Sebabnya antara saya dan Jamil bekerja 'one man show', bukan setakat kena membuat liputan tetapi mengambil gambar sendiri.


Untungnya penginapan kami di Hotel Seassons tidak jauh dari bandar dan berdekatan pula dengan pengangkutan awam yang popular di sana iaitu tram. Teringin naik tram pada hari pertama tetapi tidak tahu hala tuju, lalu paling mudah berjalan kaki dari hotel menuju ke satu bangunan unik.

Awalnya tidak tahu apa nama bangunan klasik bercirikan Inggeris itu, macam 'ayam berak kapur' dibuatnya terpinga-pinga melihat orang ramai sentiasa berpusu-pusu, sebaik didekati barulah diketahui ia Flinders Street Station. Ia mengingatkan saya pada bangunan klasik Keretapi Tanah Melayu.


Namun pintu masuknya yang berkubah dengan jam besar di atasnya ada ciri-ciri konsep Bangunan Sultan Abdul Samad di ibu kota kita. Stesen Flinders yang mempunyai 15 platform terletak antara Flinders Street dan Swanston Street berdekatan pula dengan Sungai Yarra.


Dari hotel menuju Flinders Street Station (FSS) yang berjarak sekitar dua kilometer saujana mata kiri dan kanan dengan udara yang nyaman sempat merentasi Victoria Barracks (Department Of Defence), National Gallery Of Victoria, Pasar Ahad atau Sunday Market serta melihat cruise di Sungai Yarra.


Terbit rasa bangga kerana ketika berjalan ternampak pula kereta nasional kita Gen 2, saya pun apa lagi rakamkan gambar buat tatapan pembaca.


Tercegat di depan Stesen Flinders, timbul seronok melihat kerenah orang ramai. Tidak seperti kunjungan saya ke Copenhagen, Denmark dulu boleh dikatakan majoriti muka mat salih, tetapi di Melbourne toleh kiri dan kanan pelbagai bangsa boleh kelihatan, ada rupa India dan Cina.


Tidak sah jika kali pertama melihat tanpa merakam gambar stesen itu. Boleh dikatakan setiap pelancong ke Melbourne akan mengabadikan gambar di depan stesen itu. Sambil memerhatikan lokasi di sekeliling, ada Princes Bridge Hotel ternampak pula bangunan ACMI, bermakna lokasi berlangsungnya AMFF tidak jauh dari FSS. Cuma di perkarangan ACMI ada tempat santai sambil tonton televisyen gergasi iaitu Federation Square.


Ikutkan, saya mahu mengisi perut di restoran Nelayan yang dikata milik peniaga Indonesia. Di sebalik manusia berduyun itu, saya dan Jamil terpisah. Ke hulu ke hilir saya mencari dia, telefon bimbit pula tertinggal di hotel. Hampir sejam mencari beberapa kali berpusing di keliling bangunan yang sebenarnya berlegar di penjuru sama apabila terpandang FSS. Tanpa diduga di sekitar FSS akhirnya menemukan semula saya dan Jamil.

Liputan AMFF keesokan petang hingga tayangan filem Talentime ke larut malam jelas memberi gambaran filem Malaysia boleh merentas sempadan jika strategi promosi bersistematik, namun kualitinya juga harus dijaga.


Kesempatan di sana memberi peluang menemuramah pelajar, termasuk Presiden Kelab Umno Australia Melbourne (KUAM), Mohd Izhar Moslem.


Seronok mendengar cerita Izhar bagaimana dia bersama rakan menguruskan kehadiran Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad untuk bertemu pelajar kita di Australia dan menetap di hotel sama dengan saya.


Larut malam, sebaik majlis berakhir perut terasa lapar, apa hendak dimakan pada ketika restoran semua sudah tutup, lalu diajak ketiga-tiga pelajar, Tiara, Balqis dan Tamara ke restoran makanan segera dan ternyata ia tidak jauh dari FSS.


Ibarat sambil menyelam minum air, Latiff yang ketika itu sibuk mencari pelakon untuk filem Ratu sempat menawarkan watak pada ketiga-tiga pelajar yang tidak kurang manisnya, tetapi mereka menolak.


Sesudah bersembang panjang, baru diberitahu ketiga-tiga pelajar itu adik beradik yang nama mereka bermula dengan pangkal Dayangku. Selesai menjamu selera, masa untuk berpisah, namun sempat mengabadikan gambar larut malam berlatarkan FSS. Ikutkan, tidak pernah dirancang untuk fotografi depan FSS dan ia cuma secara kebetulan apabila saya melihat kembali gambar banyak juga aksi kami berlatarkan FSS pada waktu siang.


Kebetulan ia di tengah pusat bandar, bertemu dan berpisah mesti di depan FSS. Cuma berdetik di hati untuk masuk ke dalam stesen itu tetapi tidak tahu ke destinasi mana, apatah lagi dengan sibuk membuat liputan AMFF, namun akhirnya terlaksana juga pada kunjungan kali kedua tempoh hari.

>Info

  • ACMI di depan Flinders Street Station adalah di dalam bangunan Alfred Deakin. Di situ juga ada galeri Screen World iaitu sejarah perfileman dan drama seluruh dunia
  • Dua restoran menjadi pilihan orang Malaysia yang asing di Melbourne iaitu Zam Zam dan Lazzat
  • Tambang teksi di Melbourne, buka meter $3.90 (RM11.70), manakala Tram dari Seasson Hotel ke Flinders Street Station cuma $3.40 (RM10.20)
  • Tambang teksi dari Flinders Street Station ke Hotel Bayview milik orang Malaysia berjarak empat kilometer, tambangnya $11.10 (RM33.30)
  • Lokasi beli-belah istimewa di DFO (Direct Factory Outlet) terletak di Moorabbin
  • Harga tiket wayang untuk satu tayangan sekitar $14 (RM38)
  • Bayaran meletak kenderaan di Pusat Hiburan Crown untuk tempoh dua jam $15 (RM45)
  • Pusat judi di Crown adalah yang terbesar dan menjadi medan 'kaki judi' seluruh dunia beradu nasib.