GIS being a hot topic, I thought I'd pass this along:
This just shipped:
Desktop GIS: Mapping the Planet with Open Source Tools
http://tinyurl.com/6kuzy2
Book website: http://desktopgisbook.com/
Author's blog: http://spatialgalaxy.net/
.. which is a good companion to last years:
GIS
Glen,
>From a whole systems view 'peak oil' is part of 'peak everything'. 'Peak
everything' is also synonymous with 'diminishing returns', or 'natural
complications' or 'limits of development'. I think with the present
collapse there is now more time to worry about global warming, sort of, and
c
On Oct 26, 2008, at 3:18 PM, Steve Smith wrote:
Robert Holmes wrote:
Charming people but their internet service sucks. My connection
from them is currently running at about 300K instead of the 1.5M
I'm paying for ($70 per month).
I'm on a similar Motorola 600Mhz System run by the San Ilde
A nice talk by Roger on Wednesday:
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Topic: My other computers're at Amazon - 11:30, Oct 29, 624 Agua Fria
conference room.
A short presentation on how to get an AWS account, pick an image,
start an instance, configure it, run it, recover the results, and take
it down again.
If someone
Paul, Kim & Rich have been very patient as we've rescheduled this
event a couple of times. It's going to be worth the wait, so please
come Wednesday night.
-d-
Begin forwarded message:
From: Don Begley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: October 27, 2008 12:37:10 PM MDT
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject:
Hi Glen,
Regarding the Thomas Gold book, I have been urged not to take it
seriously by geologists I trust. I also do not have the expertise to
enable an informed opinion of my own. They seem to suggest, however,
that Gold purposely ignores (a lot of) evidence that works in favor of
the conventio
Thus spake Jochen Fromm circa 10/26/2008 07:25 AM:
> http://blog.cas-group.net/2008/10/the-true-crisis-is-still-to-come/
I'm currently reading "The Deep Hot Biosphere" and Gold presents a
pretty persuasive argument that the hydrocarbons (oil, methane, coal,
...) we burn for energy are not (mostly)
I'm reading through the interesting book on statistical mechanics and
computation mentioned earlier on the list:
http://n2.nabble.com/Re%3A--WedTech--A-Winter%27s-Read-td1369555.html
So I found myself brushing up on probability theory, and was amazed to
see what all has gone on since my earli
Thanks Steve / Robert
And everyone who has responded directly It would seem that they are
using Motorola Canopy 800 system.
In Rio Rancho our company did a bunch of tests with various 802.11
variants and even up to 802.20 Wi-max ( also FOS laser ) and we found
some really curious issues wi
