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Comment Re:wait (Score 1) 362

by goatbar on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @06:27PM (#35436422) Attached to: Senate Passes Landmark Patent Reform Bill

Yes... most likely the patent office won't discover your invention in their research as most of their searching is in prior patents. So you will find yourself paying big $ trying to get the patent invalidated.

Comment Lessons learned from the BP Spill (Score 1) 426

by goatbar on Tuesday February 22, 2011 @08:23AM (#35277938) Attached to: Huge Amounts of Oil Found On Gulf of Mexico Floor

I've got all but one of the presentations (ppt or pdf) from the Alaska Marine Science Symposium in Jan 2010. Two of the talks had to be approved by the White House. There need to be many many more of these types of events, but at least it is a start. http://tinyurl.com/BpLessons

Submission + - Which geek clock should I get? (blogspot.com)

Submitted by goatbar on Sunday August 29, 2010 @11:49AM

goatbar writes: What is the ultimate and cheap geek clock out there? If I had my way, it would have a great display for those with glasses, have a radio with AM/FM/NOAA weather and more bands, integrated weather, get time from NTP, GPS, CDMA, and/or WWV/WWVH, and provide NTP to my home network. All for cheap. So in the world of reality, what do geeks recommend to other geeks for a relatively cheap clock for the bedroom? The NIST Manufacturers of Time and Frequency Receivers is a pretty rough start for the geek in the home.

Comment Documentation (Score 1) 332

by goatbar on Thursday December 24, 2009 @12:55PM (#30544970) Attached to: How Can I Contribute To Open Source?

Do whatever you can. Documentation, packaging, training, whatever

Consider even just small steps... e.g. posting small examples of using FOSS can help a lot. I use my blog to help NOAA accomplish its mission indirectly. One instance is how to use QGIS to read data directly from a PostGIS database:

Using QGIS to view PostGIS data

Now, how do I convince the NOAA IT folks that QGIS should be on more peoples machines?

Comment More on Space based AIS (Score 1) 89

by goatbar on Saturday December 05, 2009 @09:27PM (#30340168) Attached to: ISS Can Now Watch Sea Traffic From Space

AIS on the IIS is amusing, but not all that helpful. SpaceQuest, ORBCOMM, and COM DEV all have space based AIS systems up...

Comment Cygwin w/ rsync over ssh (Score 1) 536

by goatbar on Friday July 03, 2009 @08:19AM (#28570353) Attached to: Guaranteed Transmission Protocols For Windows?

Installing cygwin w/ cron, rsync and ssh is the only way to fly if you have to go by windows....

$ cygrunsrv -I cron -p /usr/sbin/cron -a -D
$ net start cron

Or... install some linux distro and get the real thing

Comment faculty often only know excel, fortran &| matl (Score 1) 794

by goatbar on Thursday June 11, 2009 @10:21AM (#28293421) Attached to: Should Undergraduates Be Taught Fortran?

This often comes purely from what the teaching faculty knows... which causes a lot of teaching of excel (+ maybe visual basic) too. If you don't know it, you can't teach it.

Comment Similar question - Nautical Publications (Score 1) 328

by goatbar on Saturday March 14, 2009 @07:41AM (#27191533) Attached to: Collaborative Academic Writing Software?

I've had a similar question for Hydrographic Offices in various countries that have to produce Coast Pilot/Sailing Directions documents. Except in their case, this is a document that has 100+ years of revisions and is looking to 100 more years. How do we get them into a process where they can track all the changes and reference where material was submitted from?

I tried to think through some of the options for this kind of stuff here:

Managing distributed XML document editing for nautical publications

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