If you remember, Eric Raymond in the Cathedral and the Bazaar floated the "many eyeballs" theory that all bugs are shallow if you have a large enough community involved in finding solutions. I also remember […]
I blogged earlier about new NIST standards relating to the smart grid. In North America communication networks for automated meters and meter reading tends to be proprietary, locking utilities into one metering vendor, whereas in […]
DigitalGlobe has succcessfully launched and deployed WorldView-2 on a Boeing Delta II rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. WorldView-2 will collect multispectral imagery at 1.8 meter resolution and panchromatic imagery at .46 meters*. […]
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) directed the FCC to submit a National Broadband Plan to Congress by February 17, 2010 that addresses broadband deployment, adoption, affordability, and the use of broadband to advance solutions to […]
This year’s FOSS4G has an exceptionally diverse roster of what look to be stimulating talks. It is going to be a serious challenge to decide which of several concurrent sessions to attend. Here’s a quick […]
Over a year and a half ago I blogged about buying an ASUS EEE, the first netbook, even though the term netbook had not been coined yet. Since then a whole new industry segment has […]
As I blogged about a while ago one of the really earth shaking new functions in AutoCAD 2010 is parametric constraints. If you want to understand what types of constraints are supported and how to […]
According to the The Canadian Hydrographic Service the Bay of Fundy is tied with Ungava Bay for the highest tides in the world with a tide of 17 metres (55.8 feet), measured at Burntcoat Head in the […]