The $787-billion economic stimulus bill, H.R.1 officially called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was signed into law by President Obama February 17. According to the Architectural Record $130 billion of the bill is targetted […]
According to my friend Gene Roe, the USGS will be allocated $140 million in funding from the Economic Stimulus Package H.R. 1 to support LiDAR data acquisition. Apparently, it has been suggested that there is […]
The recent announcement Grant County Public Utility District Selects Autodesk Utility Software reminded me of an important question utilities face when planning to address some of the the most common challenges utilities are facing. 1. […]
According to MAPPS, an association of private firms in the remote sensing, spatial data and geographic information systems, the economic stimulus bill H.R. 1 signed into law last week by President Obama includes more than […]
Last September I blogged about Splashtop which Asus was embedding on its motherboards, so when you turned the machine on it would boot Linux almost instantaneously, and you could do email, internet and other routine […]
According to Slashdot, “The Vietnamese Ministry of Information and Communications has issued an administrative ruling increasing the use of Free Open Source Software products at state agencies, increasing the software’s use both in the back […]
I have just received a very sad letter from Dr Dobb’s Journal that in some ways signals the end of an era, “we regret to inform you that Dr Dobb’s Journal ceased its standalone monthly […]
You might have noticed in my blog about the stimulus package that President Obama signed into law just recently that it included $400 million to fund the establishment of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). […]