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Relatively inexpensive ESATA/USB 3 + SSD Enclosure system...

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Relatively inexpensive setup for a durable, fast portable drive- The 1st enclosure is USB 3 only- the second has the option for ESATA AND USB3 Image Product Description Unit Price Savings Total Kingston HyperX 3K SH103S3/120G 2.5" 120GB SATA III MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) (Stand-Alone Drive) Model #: SH103S3/120G Item #: N82E16820239045 $129.99 -$50.00 Instant $79.99 StarTech SAT2510B12U3 2.5" Black SATA II USB 3.0 SuperSpeed Hard Drive Enclosure Model #: SAT2510B12U3 Item #: N82E16817707262 $23.99 -$1.00 Instant $22.99 StarTech.com eSATAp / eSATA or USB 3.0 External 2.5in SATA III 6 Gbps Hard Drive Enclosure with UASP - Portable HDD / SDD Model #: S251SMU33EP Item #: N82E16817707374 $30.99 $30.00

Worried about SSD wear? You probably don't need to be | ZDNet

Worried about SSD wear? You probably don't need to be | ZDNet : 'via Blog this'

Diminishing returns on insulation ... need to work out a psychometric chart of preferences, cost, installation, value to help determine best construct for a region or wall.

http://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/print/37666

Using Speech Recognition in UCMA 3.0 and Lync 2010: Scenario Overview (Part 1 of 5)

Using Speech Recognition in UCMA 3.0 and Lync 2010: Scenario Overview (Part 1 of 5) : Very cool! Could also be a way to record conversations in meetings to text for 'lighter' storage options than AVI/MP4. 'via Blog this'

I boards!

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/article/20141116170818-113813324-construction-trends-are-reality?_mSplash=1
Someone please remind me to create a quick show-me with a Revit model and Unity Player. I found some cool texture-baking tools that would allow lighting to be baked into a model, which means anyone could login over the web and connect to a model we have and walk through it… realistic materials, rendering, etc… with very limited capabilities. This is a jumping-off point for augmented reality as well (the cool glasses you put on that overlay a virtual image in the real world… Imagine seeing a house on a lot, when the house hasn't even begun being built yet…) http://www.texturebaking.com/ http://www.stadia3d.com/index.html

RFOBenchmark

RFOBenchmark : 'via Blog this'

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Outlook - setting billing information

OK - this very basic routine sets billing information fields of all selected messages...  If the BillInfo variable to a form that pulls the local user's project's lists and lookups up the senders project list and compares, shazam! you can start auto-tagging potential emails with project/billing information. _____________________________________________ Sub Set_ACTIVE_MESSAGES_BillingInformation () Dim objsel As Selection Dim i As Integer BillInfo = UCase(InputBox( "" , "Enter default billing INFO" , "00000.000" )) Set objsel = Outlook.ActiveExplorer.Selection On Error Resume Next For i = 1 To objsel.Count Set Object = objsel.Item(i) Select Case Object .Class Case olReport, olMail, olContact ''these all behave the same way Object .BillingInformation = BillInfo Object .Save ''case

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DFSR Backlog Checker - via WMI (Thnx stichl.at) - added IE to make interface cleaner.

strComputer = "localhost" bConnectForeign = False '''http://stichl.at/2012/11/quick-dfsr-backlog-count-with-vbscript/ Dim objIE, objShell, k, strIETitle, blnFlag ' Set IE display box title. Dashes ("-") are to move the Microsoft title ' appended to the title we specify out of view. ' blnFlag is set to False when the user closes the IE display box. strIETitle = "Backlog" & String ( 40 , "-" ) blnFlag = True Set objShell = CreateObject( "WScript.Shell" ) dim StrMsg call Main sub Main () ' Initialize display box with initial message InitIE "Program Initializing" Set oWMIService = GetObject( "winmgmts:\\" & strComputer & "\root\MicrosoftDFS" ) Set colRGroups = oWMIService.ExecQuery( "SELECT * FROM DfsrReplicationGroupConfig" ) For Each oGroup in colRGroups AddMsg( "Replication Group: " & oG

What Time Has Taught Me | AUGI

What Time Has Taught Me | AUGI : 'via Blog this'

Nemetschek Acquires Bluebeam Software - D'ough Autodesk!

http://www.bluebeam.com/us/press-room/articles/10-3-14.asp Nemetschek Acquires Bluebeam Software Firms Combine Their Efforts to Make Project Collaboration Accessible to Everyone Nemetschek owns Archicad and all plan... Wishful thinking auto desk would but BlueBeam from Nemetschek .. I hope they will continue to provide the same great non-platform specific support they always have - only time will tell. Bluebeam's award-winning PDF solutions are used by the world’s top architectural, engineering and construction firms, oil and gas companies, manufacturers, government agencies and municipalities to reduce paper usage by more than 85% and to increase productivity by over 60%. http://www.nemetschek.com/en/home.html Nemetschek AG: Home Nemetschek AG includes detailed information about the company: company history, Investor Relations, press material, corporate brands, business units and much more." 'via Blog this'

DWF is dead - Running on legacy life support at this point. Playing DWF is likely going to lead to some fire drills when we begin to see issues... Bluebeam Anyone?!!

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I Pinged Scott Sheppard about DWFs on the on the Autodesk Forum yesterday . DWF is on legacy life support- Why can't Autodesk commit to ending it and moving on? No telling what bugs will pop up with the windows 10 updates going as they have been. Surprising with their migration to ABC for subscription users they haven't removed it from the lineup to push people to the cloud- maybe in the next 3-6 months they will pull it to gain more traction for the cloud, but I suspect Bluebeam is too much of a competitor so maybe they'll just let it continue to let it atrophy. Autodesk Design Review continues to be part of our desktop offerings. There are  no plans to remove the download . Unless there is some unforeseen operating system change that necessitates updating Design Review, there are  no plans to update it.  As has been mentioned in this thread, our focus is on the cloud where there can be a single source of truth (reduce the number of separate files), the ability to apply

Convert Deltek Report (CSV, TXT) to folder structure based on indexing of NCS4.0

This code takes a CSV formatted report from Deltek and looks for key variables in the report header to create a folder structure. In lieu of long folder names it creates numbers and descriptive shortcuts to the folders. VBS Code below: Option Explicit Const version = "v2014-09-03-01.0" ''Script takes a csv text based output report from Deltek and uses it to create folder structure on P. Const strFPt = "P:\"         ''Target File PathDim FP Const vbqt = """"                ''define VBQt for quotation mark ''Lots of globals on this one: Public strDataArr               ''Readline of data from file Public strDiscID                ''discipline ID Const RemapE = True          ''Remap E will create the S/SZ folders if E is in the disciplines . Const ForReading = 1 , ForWriting = 2 , ForAppending = 8   ''       '''Deltek Variables store