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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

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Photos: Academy of Sciences rebirth

Long a San Francisco tradition, the California Academy of Sciences, which was badly damaged in the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989, was closed for major renovations in 2005. On September 27, it is scheduled to re-open, an almost entirely new set of buildings, and one of the world's most innovative...

Tags: Museum, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-09-19

U.S. says 'virtual fence' on border ready for use

U.S. says 'virtual fence' on border ready for useWhat does 16000 USD matter...When you're saving 45k USD annually, per illegal immigrant employed?Europe is allowed to have work camps for their detainees from africa, why is it we have to embrace people who are breaking our laws with open arms?$135 per...

Tags: Real estate, fence, virtual fence

Discussion threads 2008-02-23

Recalling the Loma Prieta earthquake and Mac advantages

Anyone who lived in the San Francisco Bay Area on Oct. 17, 1989 must remember two things: the anticipation over the first Bay Bridge World Series between the Oakland A's and the San Francisco Giants; and the Loma Prieta earthquake, which stuck on 5:04 PM just as Game One was...

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Network, AppleTalk, Red Cross, Apple Inc., Desktops, Networking, Hardware, David Morgenstern

Blog posts 2007-10-17

Photos: A Bay Bridge for all seasons

The eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is being fitted with a fancy new self-anchored suspension.A Caltrans model of the self-anchored suspension SAS bridge that will be the major new element of the eastern span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge. The new bridge span, which connects Treasure...

Tags: photograph, eastern span, eastern side, span, suspension.A Caltrans, skyway, suspension section, self-anchored suspension section, new skyway, barge, south, bedrock, agency, San Francisco, transportation, California

Image galleries 2007-08-13

Bacteria to protect against quakes

Bacteria to protect against quakesNeat...My first thought was "gee these must be some gigantic bacteria", but after reading the article I am actually impressed by what they did to get to where they are today with this solution. My hats off to these people!Result?Is the end result the manufacture...

Tags: bacteria

Discussion threads 2007-02-26

Bacteria to protect against quakes

If you live near the sea, chances are high that your home is built over sandy soil. And if an earthquake strikes, deep and sandy soils can turn to liquid, with some disastrous consequences for the buildings sitting on them. But now, U.S. researchers have found a way to use...

Tags: Engineering &, Innovation, Energy &, Environment, Science &, Nature

Blog posts 2007-02-25

Katrina may push agencies towards telework

Katrina may push agencies towards teleworkExamples of telework during diastersAnyone interested in how telework is put into action in an emergency can look at how managers coped during the La Prieta earthquake and during a newspaper fire. See www.joannepratt.com/publications.htm

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, Katrina, agency

Discussion threads 2005-09-28

Are FCC radio spectrum policies obsolete?

Are FCC radio spectrum policies obsolete?you hit the target and went past it...."imagine 3rd world countries were no infrastructure exists" NO regulations there, so what's stopping development?No such thing as a free lunch, etc.The radio spectrum is not infinate and it seems everyone wants a piece of it. The...

Tags: Federal government, radio spectrum, spectrum, FCC

Discussion threads 2005-07-23

Dell 'learns lesson' from Indian call center chaos

Dell 'learns lesson' from Indian call center chaosThe biggest problem with Indian tech supportI'm not saying this to be xenophobic, but my biggest problem with outsourcing to India is understanding them through their accents. My hearing isn't all that good (too much listening to Pink Floyd in headphones at the...

Tags: Call centers, Customer relationship management (CRM), Product marketing, call-center, Dell Computer Corp., accent

Discussion threads 2004-03-31