Urban Design and Development

This is quiet interesting written by David Jacoby Trying to unmask the fake Microsoft support scammers! David Jacoby Kaspersky Lab Expert Posted August 04, 08:27 GMT 0.6 I’m pretty sure that most of you guys know about the recent phone scam which is circulating right now. They have been calling a lot of people in countries such as Germany, Sweden, the UK and probably more. The scam is pretty simple; they pretend to be from a department within Microsoft which has received indications that your computer is infected with some malware. They will then offer (for free) to verify if this is the case. If the victim agrees on this, they will ask the victim to perform certain actions, and also type certain commands, which will trick a non-experienced user that the output is actually showing that the computer is infected. I just want to mention that there is no such department at Microsoft, and they would never call up customers offering this. So if you ever get a call ‘from Microsoft...

The drawing checking 'checklist' “Checking is a necessary evil. Checkers aren’t necessarily evil” (hill international 2004) Inherently in any creative process the ‘CONCEPT’ stage is most exciting, pleasant. Probably because the evolution of the design for the idea communicates with designer and whole process is pleasurable, which is quiet fuzzy unlike the typical working drawings. Therefore Architect who deals the project from concept till commissioning needs to have mastery in both the works. As Unchecked drawings the generally resulted in to Plan discrepancies and missing/insufficient information. Due to insufficient information causes delays. Further results in to friction between different departments and had adverse impact on the overall moral of the project Simply these two different processes can be broadly terms as Creative and mechanically creative process. Now in order to tackle the partial Mechanical process of execution drawing and detailing , one needs to have p...