Green IT

With the advent of the technology the carbon footprint is also on the verge of increasing order.But new ideas and IT equipments are being developed. That can actually help reducing the carbon footprint that is being left behind by the use of every electrical devices in our day today life,and help preserve the Earth's environment from the rapid global warming. Now days scientists and environmentalist are trying their best to reduce the carbon footprint. Green IT is nothing but an idea that is being developed among the IT experts and people to reduce the carbon footprint. It can also be interpreted as replacing the old high energy consuming electrical devices with new and more energy efficient equipments. Almost all of us have developed a habit of not switching off an electrical device after the work being complete. So do the larger organizations where hundreds of computer's and other electrical equipments are used. With this extensive use of the energy, scientists have figured that in near future there will be a energy crisis and the threat of ozone depletion due to increase in global warming. Studies and surveys have shown that 60% of the energy consumed in an organizations is when it is vacant during the nights. Research have shown that even a switched off computer monitors draw about 20 watt of electricity. And the solution to this problem is to develop the habit of unplugging the electrical devices after it's use. By this we can not only reduce the carbon footprint but also the large sum of energy consumption bill.

  I have checked my energy consumption using the energy consumption calculator for my PC. and I was socked by the findings.You can also calculate your energy consumption using the tool from the link http://www.eu-energystar.org/en/en_008b.shtml . In this link you can find a tool called ENERGY CALCULATE, this tool can be used to calculate your total energy consumption yearly.You can find different options where you can select type of an electrical device that you use to calculate the energy consumption. And when I used it the findings were as shown in the picture.

For referencing an article without author’s name and date, we can refer it by writing author’s name Anonymous and date n.d. Also we have to include the website name and accessed date along with it’s URL. As an example we can refer the article Green IT. It’s reference is as follow:-
Anon., n.d. The Chartered Institute for IT. [Online] Available at:http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=ConWebDoc.22412 [Accessed 12 March 2012]    

Reflecting up on Week one

Like “The morning shows the day”, the 1st week of our spring semester has clearly shown us that this time it’s not so easy, even just to pass the module. Time has come to be more focused and serious towards studies, there is some tension in the air and might be due to pending of the results of 1st semester. Besides that, 1st week passed smoothly with little study and lots of quality of time spent with friends. Narrowing the point straight to the topic, today’s main aim of writing this blog is all about what we had spoken or might have spoken during the small conference in our lab session for the module, Personal Development for Computing.
In the lab we were provided a sheet of paper in which there were few points regarding the abilities that a computer graduate must acquire. It was a very simple task to choose a point from the given paper and explain briefly what it means to the rest of the group. Some of my class mates explained few points from it. But due to insufficient time I couldn’t get the turn to express my idea before the class. One of my friends talked about "planning and solving specific problem using appropriate criteria professionally and ethically". During his speech, taking in consideration the given point as a base, he talked about how cyber crimes can be minimized.
That day if I had chance to express my views I would have talked about point number 5 from the list. It says "a graduate in computing typically will have the ability to ensure a computer system meets the standards defined for current use and future development". During the course of computing, we have to do lots of coursework individually and in a group as well. During those group works all of us have to keep in mind that the program meets the all requirements of the client. Keeping in mind all of those things a programmer must have ability to develop the program that can be used for the further references. The statement states that a graduate in computing must have the ability to ensure the system developed must be as per the standers that are necessary for the current use. If any programmer fails to gain that ability there will be major possibility for the breakdown of the project or the system. There are several examples of failure of the projects due to the lack of proper attention towards the standards, set for the success of the system. So a programmer must always be aware about current trend and updates, and must develop the system that can be updated and referenced for the future programming. Unless such ability is being developed within a programmer, he might just be called a programmer rather than a professional programmer.
               We might have personally faced various problems during the coursework. Further, there are several similar kinds of coursework to be done. To simplify the problems like we faced during our autumn semester’s coursework, we are going to keep in mind the above points. Gaining such abilities as a computing graduate aids us to be more practical and object oriented system developers, we can be a successful IT expert, doing work individually and also as a good team worker