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The LA earthquake

The LA earthquakeThe quake was downright puny5.4 is hardly even noteworthy. I couldn't believe all of the news coverage it garnered. Must have been a slow news day.RE: The LA earthquakenah. not just a slow news day. but it is an earthquake and in LA. if that hit east of...

Tags: Katrina, earthquake

Discussion threads 2008-07-30

Recalling the Loma Prieta earthquake and Mac advantages

Recalling the Loma Prieta earthquake and Mac advantagesTypoI think you mean October 17, 1989, not 1998. ;)As for the use of AppleTalk to set up a fast-deploy network, back in those days, there was no denying that, what AppleTalk lacked in bandwidth, it more than made up in with...

Tags: Desktops, NETWORKING, Peer to peer (P2P), Wi-Fi, Loma Prieta, AppleTalk, network, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2007-10-17

Locating an earthquake in 5 minutes

When a powerful earthquake hit Indonesia's West Java on August 8, 2007, it took exactly 4 minutes and 38 seconds to be detected, located and sized by the German-Indonesian Tsunami Early Warning System GITEWS currently under construction in Indonesia. Even more remarkable, the location of the earthquake was found after...

Tags: Tsunami, Sensor, Indonesia, Roland Piquepaille

Blog posts 2007-08-15

Big quakes effects on big buildings

Researchers from California and France have used 3-D supercomputer simulation tools to evaluate the damages that strong earthquakes along the San Andreas faults would cause to earthquake-resistant buildings in Southern California. For this simulation, they've put two 18-story buildings designed according respectively to the 1982 and 1997 Uniform Building Code...

Tags: rupture

Blog posts 2006-08-13

Asia tsunami warning system feasible

Asia tsunami warning system feasibleForget OS's and "who's the best"...How about major software companies banding together (and DONATING $$$) to bring about some sort of warning system to the poorer countries that don't already have a system in place. After all, I'd much rather see all countries (which could...

Tags: Tesla, earthquake

Discussion threads 2004-12-27

Additional Resources

Depiction 1.01.9670 (Windows)

Depiction is a new type of mapping and simulation software that lets you quickly and easily explore "what if" scenarios that could affect you community. Depiction combines maps, data and images into a single canvas, where it all comes alive and interacts, whether it came from the Internet of your...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Depiction, Internet, Workforce Management, Training And Certification, Human Resources

Software downloads 2009-11-18

Images: How NOAA's tsunami warnings work

NOAA's Pacific Ocean tsunami warning system, expanded greatly in recent years, allowed for real-time forecasting of events and advanced warning for distant at-risk communities after the recent American Samoa earthquake. by CNET News.com

Tags: NOAA, Sales Force Management, Sales, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2009-10-01

Chinese hackers launch targeted attacks against foreign correspondents

According to an assessment published by the Information Warfare Monitor, Chinese hacktivists politically motivated hackers have recently launched a targeted malware attack against foreign news correspondents attempting to trick them into executing a malware-embedded PDF attachment (Interview list.pdf), coming from a non-existent editor working for The Straits Times. ...

Tags: China, Malware, Hacker, Attack, Spyware, Adware & Malware, Cyberthreats, Viruses And Worms, Security, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-09-29

California's burning: greentech solution?

NatureI don't think it's human arrogance that we live on this planet - you can thank God or Evolution for us being here....take your choice. Your first paragraph was unnecessary and juvenile - name me a spot on earth that is not subject to the extreme forces of nature...

Tags: Liberalism

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

California's burning: greentech solution?

Of course, there's no substitute for human arrogance an dignorance. We insist on living along earthquake faults from San Francisco to Tokyo. Folks love beachfront property in hurricane and typhoon zones. Italians rebuilt cities at the foot of Vesuvius. Cities and towns clog major floodplains all over...

Tags: Biofuel, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-09-01

Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes down

RE: Oh sure...4 days in and Gmail goes downMy office lost it primary and secondary links to our data farm. We spent the morning without access to our email exchange.The servers are off site for security and redundancy reasons. We are in a location that has all sort...

Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), E-mail providers, cloud computing, Google Inc., Internet Service Provider, Google Gmail, outage, e-mail

Discussion threads 2009-09-01

Quake Warn 1.2 (Mobile)

Quake Warn application tracks all earthquakes with all magnitude and distances from the user location, and alerts the user of any earthquake, with a magnitude less than 3.5 in the region which the user can set. Quake warning features include list of earthquakes with Google map locations, complete with magnitude...

Tags: Mobile, Magnitude, Venkatramanan Krishnamani, Smart Phones, Advertising & Promotion, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-09-01

Mappity Quakes 1.2 (Mobile)

Mappity Quakes shows the locations of earthquakes for the last 24 hours. You can see exactly earthquakes occurred with the OpenStreetMap based map view or view the most recent earthquakes as a list. It features custom mapping based on OpenStreetMap data, earthquake data from the USGS, handy links to report...

Tags: Mobile, Planetary Scale, Mappity Quakes, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing

Software downloads 2009-08-10

'Invisibility cloak' could protect buildings against earthquakes

Researchers at the University of Liverpool have shown that it's possible to develop an 'invisibility cloak' to protect buildings from surface waves that are generated during earthquakes. These types of seismic waves travel across the earth's surface causing much of the destruction which follows earthquakes, unlike body waves which travel...

Tags: Wave, Cloak, Team Management, Strategy, Security, Management, Chris Jablonski

Blog posts 2009-07-20

To host or not to host

To host or not to hostAs I stated on TwitterI would stick to outsourcing unless you're large enough to manage those resources in house, unless you particularly like 3AM "the site is down!!!!!!111!" calls; chances are good that you're not large enough. Whether you stick with GoDaddy or not is...

Tags: Managed hosting, Web technology, GoDaddy, outsourcing, outsource

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

One-third of mobile phones to use accelerometers by 2010

One-third of mobile phones to use accelerometers by 2010Accelerometer is a chipSo that makes the headline fairly pathetic as it relates to the iPhone's competition.If there is the slightest indication an accelerometer might be useful, there is absolutely no reason not to include one of the device's mainboard.Accelerometer key to...

Tags: Smart phones, mobile, accelerometer, Apple iPhone, phone, cell phone, Accelerometer

Discussion threads 2009-07-10

Why Oracle bought Sun: 60% of enterprise software vendors rely on Java

Why Oracle bought Sun: 60% of enterprise software vendors rely on JavaThis will affect IT tooThanks for highlighting this Larry. Whenever we talk to vendors this is the elephant in the room that no one wants to acknowledge. I do want to point out that it will affect...

Tags: Programming languages, MSCE, enterprise software vendor, Java, enterprise software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Oracle Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

Political gaming around the Waxman-Markey bill

Nearly every energy and greentech and auto and battery and utility company in America has a stake in the proposed Waxman-Markey bill. So does every taxpayer and the future of any potential agreement with China on global warming could hang in the balance, and...the list of possible effects of...

Tags: Game, Bill, Dems, Regulations, Government, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-06-30

Iranian opposition launches organized cyber attack against pro-Ahmadinejad sites

Approximately 24 hours ago, the Iranian opposition coordinated an ongoing cyber attack that has successfully managed to disrupt access to major pro-Ahmadinejad Iranian web sites, including the President's homepage which continues returning a "The maximum number of user  reached, Server is too busy, please try again later..." message. ...

Tags: Denial Of Service, Web, Server, Web Site, Site, Cyberattack, Distributed Denial Of Service, Tool, Iran, Attack, Presstv.ir, SupportIran.php, Web Site Development, Security, Internet, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2009-06-15

Neo Steam: The Shattered Continent June 23 2009 (Windows)

Atlus Online introduces Neo Steam, a one-of-a-kind massively multi-player online role-playing game MMORPG based in a uniquely creative steampunk setting. In ancient times, all races enjoyed lives of luxury in a world where science and magic harmoniously coexisted. The discovery of the new resource "Neo Steam" spurred the development of...

Tags: Nation, Atlus Online, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software

Software downloads 2009-06-11