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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

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

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