It would cost more to operate the Presidio as an urban park than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined. I think it was a better solution than having it carved up and sold off by the GSA.
A) The military gave the base to the park service, which is great with trees but they don't know shit about buildings. The Presidio Trust was created to manage the buildings and the NPS is responsible for a good chunk of the shoreline and the nature-ish areas.
B) It's a LONG term lease, the Trust has to become financially self sufficient or it all goes to the GSA.
C) The Presidio Trust is working like mad to get the buildings ready to lease for both commercial and residential use. The problem is that many of the buildings are VERY historic (the base dates back to 1776 w/ the Spanish, Mexicans and eventually the US)
Refurbishing a bunch of buildings that were left to rot by the military, then add all sorts of environmental cleanup hazards they left behind and you've got a HELL of a lot of work to do before you can lease it.
Talk to some of the guys who were working on the Chrissy Field restoration, how would you like to be the guy working that backhoe and not tearing up fiber but instead dredging up WW2 era battleship ammunition. This was a pretty common occurence too. There's also the missle silos on the south side, but I think they've been torn out already. They're pretty hard to find nonetheless.
D) Vacant office space is one thing in the rest of SF, but space in the Presidio has an exclusivity to it. I used to love telling people in the Marina district how I lived in the Presidio, rent-free. I didn't mention the bit about how I was an intern.
I was living there (weird shaped, gray roof buildings just a bit WNW) before they tore down the hospital, around 1999, I left before they even broke ground.
I don't know what the Presidio is like these days, but when it was first handed over from the military it was a very....interesting place.
Maxtor has their OneTouch line of external drives. It ships with their Dantz Retrospect software, which can launch a full backup just by pushing a button.
The retrospect software is pretty powerful, not necessarily the easiest interface but it can do a lot.
You can also customize the button on the front to launch whatever application/script you would like. Personally I launch the backup manually, but I use the button on the front to open the calculator.
I've had a OneTouch 2 for about 2 months now, and should the internal drive ever fail or I want more storage I can just put in another PATA drive.
I was also drawn to it because of the solid cast aluminum shell. It makes it VERY sturdy and doesn't need one of those tiny little fans that last about a month before they start whining and rattling.
Funny, I used to use IBM's own AV software. I'm not sure if it was publicly available or sold, but I was a son of an IBM employee. They were great about releasing updates.
After a while they decided to get out of that business and as I recall they sold all their technology for AV to Symantec.
So IBM could be reclaiming *and* renaming some of the technology from Symantec.
I refurbish computer for our local school district to give away. Right now I'm getting a lot of low end P3 machines, so that's what a lot of companies are getting rid of.
Now, to get another couple of years out of these machines it generally requires a drive replacement around this time, the BIOS is usually years out of date, and the worst of all, most of the fans are dead/dying.
The current workstations aren't going to give another couple years. Something with no HDD or active cooling is needed.
One can get plenty of respect as a "maintenance technician" you're still the guy THAT MAKES IT WORK! I was working at a job with the federal govt. and was sort of the on-site IT rep for the engineering and maintenance dept, the rest of the IT staff worked out of the headquarters building. The staff in that building loved finally having a local guy available, and it was interesting being sort of trans-departmental. I knew what was going on all over - got all the gossip. The rest of the IT staff was insular.
I also would help out the GSA rep who had an office in the building, so in exchange for helping her out with the occasional problem it proved helpful when I got approval for a vehicle...didn't get stuck with the standard low-end chevy cars, I ended up with a Suburban that was supposed to go to the secret service but turned out not to be needed by them.
Antec good? I worked for a shop that sold a lot of white boxes in Antec 630 cases, their power supplies caused us the most headaches. Some just would boot a given system, we got an entire batch of 20 that were DOA. They're awful.
You think that running the latest patches right away is only something for Windows. I keep my system protected in more ways than an OS patch and....I wait just as long for even Apple updates where the hardware and software are much more of a homogeneous environment for an update to be tested.
CR also has knocked VW cars simply because they didn't use separate left and right blinking indicators, and instead opting for a single blinking LED idiot light.
Turn off the security center service. I've seen the same behavior on other boxes, you can still do all the firewall/auto update/virus protection stuff but you won't get bugged.
How about this POS too. Mine died just out of warranty and Sony was cool enough to send me a refurb which worked for about 9 months. I had to open it and replace the drive mechanism.
I have NEVER seen electronics built so incredibly cheaply. I got it back together and it works, but superglue is holding the PAPER backed wires for the reset and power button. I doubt I could open it again and have it survive.
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The brain may act that way...but I've found myself switching to writing post-it notes in the form of google queries.
It would cost more to operate the Presidio as an urban park than Yellowstone and Yosemite combined. I think it was a better solution than having it carved up and sold off by the GSA.
A) The military gave the base to the park service, which is great with trees but they don't know shit about buildings. The Presidio Trust was created to manage the buildings and the NPS is responsible for a good chunk of the shoreline and the nature-ish areas.
B) It's a LONG term lease, the Trust has to become financially self sufficient or it all goes to the GSA.
C) The Presidio Trust is working like mad to get the buildings ready to lease for both commercial and residential use. The problem is that many of the buildings are VERY historic (the base dates back to 1776 w/ the Spanish, Mexicans and eventually the US)
Refurbishing a bunch of buildings that were left to rot by the military, then add all sorts of environmental cleanup hazards they left behind and you've got a HELL of a lot of work to do before you can lease it.
Talk to some of the guys who were working on the Chrissy Field restoration, how would you like to be the guy working that backhoe and not tearing up fiber but instead dredging up WW2 era battleship ammunition. This was a pretty common occurence too. There's also the missle silos on the south side, but I think they've been torn out already. They're pretty hard to find nonetheless.
D) Vacant office space is one thing in the rest of SF, but space in the Presidio has an exclusivity to it. I used to love telling people in the Marina district how I lived in the Presidio, rent-free. I didn't mention the bit about how I was an intern.
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I was living there (weird shaped, gray roof buildings just a bit WNW) before they tore down the hospital, around 1999, I left before they even broke ground.
I don't know what the Presidio is like these days, but when it was first handed over from the military it was a very....interesting place.
Maxtor has their OneTouch line of external drives. It ships with their Dantz Retrospect software, which can launch a full backup just by pushing a button.
The retrospect software is pretty powerful, not necessarily the easiest interface but it can do a lot.
You can also customize the button on the front to launch whatever application/script you would like. Personally I launch the backup manually, but I use the button on the front to open the calculator.
I've had a OneTouch 2 for about 2 months now, and should the internal drive ever fail or I want more storage I can just put in another PATA drive.
I was also drawn to it because of the solid cast aluminum shell. It makes it VERY sturdy and doesn't need one of those tiny little fans that last about a month before they start whining and rattling.
Funny, I used to use IBM's own AV software. I'm not sure if it was publicly available or sold, but I was a son of an IBM employee. They were great about releasing updates.
After a while they decided to get out of that business and as I recall they sold all their technology for AV to Symantec.
So IBM could be reclaiming *and* renaming some of the technology from Symantec.
Laptop HDD - 300,000 hours MTBF
Consumer HDD - 300k-500k hours MTBF
Prosumer HDD - 1 million hours MTBF
SCSI/Enterprise - ~1.5 million hours MTBF
So I suppose Abit has given you all the information on their uGuru, I mean winbond, monitoring system.
That's why they make faster computers.
That's so...monday
There are only about half dozen or so laptop mfgrs total. A PowerBook may come out of the same factory as an emachine.
It's all about mfg specifications on components.
I refurbish computer for our local school district to give away. Right now I'm getting a lot of low end P3 machines, so that's what a lot of companies are getting rid of.
Now, to get another couple of years out of these machines it generally requires a drive replacement around this time, the BIOS is usually years out of date, and the worst of all, most of the fans are dead/dying.
The current workstations aren't going to give another couple years. Something with no HDD or active cooling is needed.
The Sil3114 on my Asus K8N-E has the 4 sata ports and will do a raid 5.
One can get plenty of respect as a "maintenance technician" you're still the guy THAT MAKES IT WORK! I was working at a job with the federal govt. and was sort of the on-site IT rep for the engineering and maintenance dept, the rest of the IT staff worked out of the headquarters building. The staff in that building loved finally having a local guy available, and it was interesting being sort of trans-departmental. I knew what was going on all over - got all the gossip. The rest of the IT staff was insular.
I also would help out the GSA rep who had an office in the building, so in exchange for helping her out with the occasional problem it proved helpful when I got approval for a vehicle...didn't get stuck with the standard low-end chevy cars, I ended up with a Suburban that was supposed to go to the secret service but turned out not to be needed by them.
I was the IT man in black.
Start->Shutdown is also pretty stupid, I think at least in OS X when you drag a volume it changes to an eject icon from a trash bin helps.
Antec good? I worked for a shop that sold a lot of white boxes in Antec 630 cases, their power supplies caused us the most headaches. Some just would boot a given system, we got an entire batch of 20 that were DOA. They're awful.
You think that running the latest patches right away is only something for Windows. I keep my system protected in more ways than an OS patch and....I wait just as long for even Apple updates where the hardware and software are much more of a homogeneous environment for an update to be tested.
Does it count as using the computer or watching TV as I sit here watching Family Guy on one monitor and posting to /. on the other monitor?
No, I saw it the same way with my own bleary eyes.
I've not tried to use kanji on an x86, regardless of OS. My Japanese professor in college used Macs exclusively for the lanugage support.
CR also has knocked VW cars simply because they didn't use separate left and right blinking indicators, and instead opting for a single blinking LED idiot light.
Turn off the security center service. I've seen the same behavior on other boxes, you can still do all the firewall/auto update/virus protection stuff but you won't get bugged.
Easy enough to pop over to B&H photo/video and get a filter to put in front of the lens.
How about this POS too. Mine died just out of warranty and Sony was cool enough to send me a refurb which worked for about 9 months. I had to open it and replace the drive mechanism.
I have NEVER seen electronics built so incredibly cheaply. I got it back together and it works, but superglue is holding the PAPER backed wires for the reset and power button. I doubt I could open it again and have it survive.
My PS1 on the other hand is a brick.
on Asus Geforce4 TI 4200, overclocked and DVI