Personally if I was looking for a good 1 lakh car ($2500) I would by a used 240 Volvo for around $1500 spend another grand on it and have a 114 horsepower tank that will last forever to a million miles get 30 to the gallon nearly 40 with a stick shift be a joy to drive and protect me and my family a heck of a lot better than the Tata ( goodbye ) sardine can.
Now that, Ralph and moi would Lahk sorry I mean like.
Also remember with your power supply make sure each work section rack has two lines from different breakers ( Thats why the equipment should have two power inlets ) that way when a breaker trips the other side takes up the load. Get your electrician a list of all the power usages and future and get 200% on each breaker,
As far a HVAC make sure you don't use more than 60% of the load ( ie for a 6ton demand you need a 10 ton unit ) and also make sure you have redundancy and another supply when it will be of line for maintenance.
Last but not least ensure the architect and builder know you have to have power / HVAC at 60 degrees and 30% humidity 365/7/24. Imagine your HVAC goes down and you have to open the door to the primary offices who are blasting heat in winter
Allow for altitude for every 1000 ft above sea level you need to add 10% to your calculations
Make sure your humidifier is on a separate line from your air intake and recirculation. ( We had one Sun client at 7000 ft who used Suns 60/30 rule and all the inlets on the roof froze up into blocks of ice and the whole data center died )
Now you are starting to get to the MEAT : Feng Shui despite all the laughter I am now hearing in tech-land starts to focus on the harmony of the place. Simply is this a nice environment to work in. Just because its an IT environment does not mean it has to resemble and feel like a mortuary even if Sun and other computer companies specify similar environments to protect the hardware..
Paramount importance get good natural light or full spectrum minimum 75 foot candles non glare reflective , excellent air quality and not just C02 controls - CO the works and monitor it , the first three control you work temp the racks like 60deg and 30% humidity but humans don't, Get low pressure air flow from the floor to the intake vents mounted on the top part of the wall or ceiling superior acoustics no more than 50DB in your sit down and concentration and reflection spot.
All the other Feng Shui comments are spot on. Once you have this lined out then slap in the technology racks routers colored wiring whatever. Just a a side hint Gensler the architect has started to design buildings around what makes them great places to work instead of the normal archicrap and these companies are getting 20 - 30 % increase in productivity. http://www.gensler.com/news/2006/07-20_workSurvey.html you can also experiment with this by making simple sketchup models http://www.sketchup.com/ which you will find also great for mapping all the rest of your data setup
Primarily think " HOW YOU WORK " not whats in your workspace
When you get the AHHHHHHHHH effect and people start to congregate in your office with smiles you have made it
Design well Design for yourself / Great post by Qbertino
Very good comment on Slashdot " What about AutoCAD "
I often think that Microsoft / ESRI / Autodesk send up these smokescreens about issues like PowerPoint so that the real issues are totally forgotten.
Bluntly the best show and tell PowerPoint killer program I have found is a little one from Russia called Able Slide Show http://www.rastervect.com/index.htm#ad Its limited as far as PowerPoint but it sure keeps the execs awake.
All the majors joined the IAI - http://www.iai-na.org/ International Alliance For Interoperability - and all are trying to subvert the initiative in favor of their own standards making interoperability obsolete.
ESRI owns GIS and The Ground, Autodesk Owns the buildings above the ground , Pro-e and Microsoft own everything else and each one is determined to own the whole enchilada.
We are working on several projects at the moment centered around Business Information Systems in engineering and construction and recently ran across this comment which about says it all " Yup dxf format really means what is says "data-document exchange format means from Autodesk to Autodesk and nothing else ".
In the future the electronic parametric design programs need to talk to the real world building in real time and 80% of the research at present is on file conversion ( Which means something is lost ) and no one is getting any help from the major stakeholders.
Our real hope in all this mess is bluntly GOGGLE and we should all support them
( : ( : peter
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Yup and 100% on wintel machines coming don't either
Wow this is scary I am going back to the abacus
Sadly many many more
Totally agree, very bright kid
Lets see TV remote now what is MacGyver in Polish
I think it would be the perfect Oxymoron for Bill G at Microsoft
Give poor kids all over the world including Africa wintel systems that will drive them mad with illogical frustrations
Then use his charity to fund psychological damage done
Seems like a nice way to keep the money moving in a big circle
Seems that for every good intentioned project such as the cheap 1 Lahk ($2500) minicar to benefit India there is an immediate downside.
Look at this report on what farmers are saying about losing their land for the factory / plant that is going to build them
http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9848763-7.html?tag=nefd.top
The Microsoft cheap dual boot story smells no pun http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/01/10/microsoft-denies-dual-booting
The tale of a one lahk car
It really didn't get very far
One day outa luck it met with a truck
Nowwwwwwwwwww, they keep it in a jar
Curry in a Hurry ( : ( : pete
Personally if I was looking for a good 1 lakh car ($2500) I would by a used 240 Volvo for around $1500 spend another grand on it and have a 114 horsepower tank that will last forever to a million miles get 30 to the gallon nearly 40 with a stick shift be a joy to drive and protect me and my family a heck of a lot better than the Tata ( goodbye ) sardine can.
Now that, Ralph and moi would Lahk sorry I mean like.
( : ( : pete
Also remember with your power supply make sure each work section rack has two lines from different breakers ( Thats why the equipment should have two power inlets ) that way when a breaker trips the other side takes up the load. Get your electrician a list of all the power usages and future and get 200% on each breaker,
As far a HVAC make sure you don't use more than 60% of the load ( ie for a 6ton demand you need a 10 ton unit ) and also make sure you have redundancy and another supply when it will be of line for maintenance.
Last but not least ensure the architect and builder know you have to have power / HVAC at 60 degrees and 30% humidity 365/7/24. Imagine your HVAC goes down and you have to open the door to the primary offices who are blasting heat in winter
Allow for altitude for every 1000 ft above sea level you need to add 10% to your calculations
Make sure your humidifier is on a separate line from your air intake and recirculation. ( We had one Sun client at 7000 ft who used Suns 60/30 rule and all the inlets on the roof froze up into blocks of ice and the whole data center died )
( : ( : pete
Now you are starting to get to the MEAT : Feng Shui despite all the laughter I am now hearing in tech-land starts to focus on the harmony of the place. Simply is this a nice environment to work in. Just because its an IT environment does not mean it has to resemble and feel like a mortuary even if Sun and other computer companies specify similar environments to protect the hardware..
Do yourself a BIG favor take a weekend of to look at some feng shui examples and get Chris Alexanders book A pattern Language http://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-Buildings-Construction-Environmental/dp/0195019199/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1199828727&sr=8-1 then sit down and list all the things you hate about work environments and all the things you like and your favorite work habits and only include features around the positive.
Paramount importance get good natural light or full spectrum minimum 75 foot candles non glare reflective , excellent air quality and not just C02 controls - CO the works and monitor it , the first three control you work temp the racks like 60deg and 30% humidity but humans don't, Get low pressure air flow from the floor to the intake vents mounted on the top part of the wall or ceiling superior acoustics no more than 50DB in your sit down and concentration and reflection spot.
All the other Feng Shui comments are spot on. Once you have this lined out then slap in the technology racks routers colored wiring whatever. Just a a side hint Gensler the architect has started to design buildings around what makes them great places to work instead of the normal archicrap and these companies are getting 20 - 30 % increase in productivity. http://www.gensler.com/news/2006/07-20_workSurvey.html you can also experiment with this by making simple sketchup models http://www.sketchup.com/ which you will find also great for mapping all the rest of your data setup
Primarily think " HOW YOU WORK " not whats in your workspace
When you get the AHHHHHHHHH effect and people start to congregate in your office with smiles you have made it
Design well Design for yourself / Great post by Qbertino
( : ( : pete
Very good comment on Slashdot " What about AutoCAD " I often think that Microsoft / ESRI / Autodesk send up these smokescreens about issues like PowerPoint so that the real issues are totally forgotten. Bluntly the best show and tell PowerPoint killer program I have found is a little one from Russia called Able Slide Show http://www.rastervect.com/index.htm#ad Its limited as far as PowerPoint but it sure keeps the execs awake. All the majors joined the IAI - http://www.iai-na.org/ International Alliance For Interoperability - and all are trying to subvert the initiative in favor of their own standards making interoperability obsolete. ESRI owns GIS and The Ground, Autodesk Owns the buildings above the ground , Pro-e and Microsoft own everything else and each one is determined to own the whole enchilada. We are working on several projects at the moment centered around Business Information Systems in engineering and construction and recently ran across this comment which about says it all " Yup dxf format really means what is says "data-document exchange format means from Autodesk to Autodesk and nothing else ". In the future the electronic parametric design programs need to talk to the real world building in real time and 80% of the research at present is on file conversion ( Which means something is lost ) and no one is getting any help from the major stakeholders. Our real hope in all this mess is bluntly GOGGLE and we should all support them ( : ( : peter Ideas Business Technology Integration http://www.ideapete.com/ 505.890.9649 707.237.5225 " Breaking NEW ground by taking existing concepts and putting them together in a NEW way "