Software

Two routes to get here, via Los Angeles or on secondaries, and two choices for the mode of transportation, flying or driving.

Open Source Basically it means that the item, commonly a piece of software, is usually available in source code form, you can get a copy, read it, and modify it.

Curiosity is on it’s way this morning to Mars for the next eight months.

Ok, it’s true. Although I consider myself a teacher, I am not an academic.

Some of the engineers I work with design computerized flight control systems such as those that would be considered “fly by wire” or that fly autonomously with no human in control.

Ah, blogging! The SSID of my personal WiFi hot spot is a type of rare fruit, broadcast is turned off, and the WPA2 passphrase is a complete sentence including punctuation and proper capitalization from one of Thich Nhat Hanh’s books.

… are in the computer you are looking at right now?

You probably don’t know the Red Baron Operating System, “R-Boss” (RBOS).