Dell reported this week that it has won a contract to supply PCs to the Environmental Protection Agency over the next three years, as well as help the regulatory body recycle its aging hardware.
The EPA said it plans to lease as many as 100,000 new machines from Dell over the course of the deal, which was announced at the Federal Office Systems Expo in Washington on Wednesday. Terms of the contract were not released. The U.S. government's environmental protection organization indicated that it is moving to the lease model as part of an initiative to lower overhead related to information technology.
Another significant element of the relationship is Dell's new role as the primary provider of hardware recycling services to the EPA. Gaining the business of the environmental agency is a surefire sign that the Round Rock, Texas-based systems vendor has won over some experts with its plans for keeping dangerous elements found in PCs and other devices out of the country's landfills.
News source: C|Net News.com
The EPA said it plans to lease as many as 100,000 new machines from Dell over the course of the deal, which was announced at the Federal Office Systems Expo in Washington on Wednesday. Terms of the contract were not released. The U.S. government's environmental protection organization indicated that it is moving to the lease model as part of an initiative to lower overhead related to information technology.
Another significant element of the relationship is Dell's new role as the primary provider of hardware recycling services to the EPA. Gaining the business of the environmental agency is a surefire sign that the Round Rock, Texas-based systems vendor has won over some experts with its plans for keeping dangerous elements found in PCs and other devices out of the country's landfills.
News source: C|Net News.com
- Changelog
- made MP4 AAC the new default ripping encoder
- fixed a crash bug when playing some AVI files in in_dshow
- added multimedia keyboard keys in global hotkeys default configuration
- added "Manual playlist advance" in Repeat button popup menu in Classic mode
- improvements in MP3 encoder configuration (added --alt-preset standard, etc...)
- made the tabs in the preferences XP correctly themed under Windows XP
- revamped the Media Library preferences a bit
- new experimental WMA9 input plugin
- gen_jumpex updates from DrO
- added "Nuke library" action in Media Library
- more upside down videos fixes
- fixed crash if a plugin generated a pledit wm_windowposchanged on shutdown
- fixed crash exploit in in_mod (thanks Peter Winter-Smith)
- fixed various crashes in in_midi when playing invalid files
- made in_midi store its settings in winamp.ini instead of the registry
- fixed error during installation on computers with chinese/oriental regional settings
- removed AOD from installer
- added Shift-R to toggle manual playlist advance
- updated VP6 video decoder to latest VP6.2 code
- fixed crash when launching winamp with very long filenames from explorer
- made registration dialog to appear in Explorer's taskbar when installing pro verion
- fixed pledit/video windows showing up at startup when minimized
- modern skins updates:
- winamp modern skin now uses a 3 state repeat button: no repeat/repeat all/repeat track
- added appplication desktop toolbars capabilities for layouts, add
appbar="left|top|right|bottom" to use them
- upped maki binary version, improved stack protection
- current skin version number is 1.2 (this should not change for a long while now, and of course we continue to support 0.8 to 1.1)
- (very) limited maki debugger (for now you can bring it up with invokeDebugger(); in a script then use 'x' to continue and 'i' to trace into)
- fixed obscure capture problem with dragging windows
- fixed rectrgn being forced to 1 in xml xuiobject buttons that are originally imageless
- fixed hilited state not on after clicking on buttons while the mouse stays in area
- fixed scripted onEnterArea/onLeaveArea not being always correctly called while mouse button stays down
- fixed getToken being passed NULL throwing guru
- fixed clipping of painting within the background's region of a group rather than
within the composed region (the one you can change with sysregion)
- fixed image cache problem when using the same bitmap as a map and a button image parameter
- winamp modern skin now uses a 3 state repeat button: no repeat/repeat all/repeat track
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