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- Ausra: Hey Nevada, here comes the sun
- Hey, why not build a source to help the renewable energy industry in a place that uses a lot of power? Is this disingenuous? Heck, it's what solar thermal power company Ausra is doing: The Australian company has decided to locate its first U.S. manufacturing plant in...
- Tags: Solar Energy, Nevada, Plant, Ausra, Telecom & Utilities, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2007-12-14
- Photos: Fight and flight
- Fallon Naval Air Station in Nevada is a training facility for aircraft carrier-based Navy combat pilots. It also happens to be home to the service's famous Top Gun academy.At the Fallon Naval Air Station in Fallon, Nev., two F-18 Hornets--the mainstay of the Navy''s fighter fleet--approach the airfield for landing....
- Tags: Workforce management, Aerospace & Defense, photograph, Fallon Naval Air Station, training, F-18 Hornet, F-16s, F-18s, air traffic control, aircraft, dogfight, mainstay, adversary, Air Force, Nevada, fleet, tower
- Image galleries 2007-08-10
- Images: Solar thermal heats up in the desert
- A new massive solar thermal power plant in Nevada will be the third largest.
- Tags: desert, Nevada
- Image galleries 2007-03-12
- Photos: AirScooter prepares for liftoff
- A "personal helicopter" being developed by a Nevada company, AirScooter is designed for recreational use.
- Tags: helicopter, Nevada, AirScooter
- Image galleries 2006-11-30
- Traffic Generation and Unix/linux System Traffic Capacity Analysis
- Often requirements dictate that a transaction based application be capacity tested before it is released into production using a traffic generator that simulates customer requests against a target system. Many times the feedback obtained from the traffic generator is insufficient to adequately quantify the quality of the offered load produced...
- Tags: Linux System, Nevada, Analysis, Traffic Capacity, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software
- White papers 2006-08-02
- Virtualization and CPU Wait Times in a Linux Guest Environment
- The virtualization environment presents the opportunity to better manage and more efficiently utilize computing resources. The resource sharing aspects of virtualization does, however, create some new challenges from an application implementation and system support perspective. This paper addresses one of those challenges; how does one monitor and manage the behavior...
- Tags: Environment, Nevada, CPU, Virtualization, Linux, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Processors, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Storage, Semiconductors, Components
- White papers 2005-12-14
- Photos: Burning Man
- Man living in a box is just one of many tech-driven art projects at Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
- Tags: photograph, festival, Nevada, Burning Man
- Image galleries 2005-09-08
- Photos: Burning Man
- Man living in a box is just one of many tech-driven art projects at Burning Man festival in the Nevada desert.
- Tags: photograph, festival, Nevada, Burning Man
- Image galleries 2005-09-08
- Managing Information Technology: Nevada's Department of Information Technology Strategic Plan
- The Department of Information Technology DoIT continues to aggressively evaluate the technical strategy to find ways to better serve our customers. This paper depicts the immediate IT needs of the state, and the recommended strategies to meet these needs. The paper addresses fundamental questions of strategy regarding how information technology...
- Tags: Information Technology, Nevada, Department Of Information Technology, Strategy, Management
- White papers 2005-01-31
- IMAGE-X Enterprises Case Study: Clark County, Nevada
- Nevada's Clark County, home to Las Vegas is the fastest growing county in the nation with a population of more than 1 million. Every month 4000 new residents move in there. This rapid growth bogged down business license paperwork. The County decided on an enterprise solution to provide public access,...
- Tags: County, Nevada, IMAGE-X, Document Management, Storage, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Hardware
- Case studies
- Trendmaster Pro Wireless System Provides Big ROI for Large US Industrial Customer
- Bently Nevada recently installed three Trendmaster Pro Dynamic Scanning Modules DSMs as part of a Condition-Based Monitoring CBM program for a large industrial customer in the United States. The CBM program was site-critical to identify infant mortality as they started up a new production line. Installation flexibility was an important...
- Tags: ROI, Nevada, Ethernet, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Networking
- Case studies
- Adobe Systems Case Study: University of Nevada, Reno
- University of Nevada, Reno UNR is one of eight institutions within the university and community college system of Nevada. In preparing students for 21st-century careers, UNR embraced the importance of digital communications skills and hands-on learning. Faculty at the College of Business Administration COBA and the Reynolds School of Journalism...
- Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Macromedia Inc., Nevada, Professional Development, Career
- Case studies
- WebCCTV NVR to Protect 50 Food Courts of Nevada Restaurants
- Profitability in fast-food restaurants demands more than good food and sound marketing. It also requires avoiding what John Zirkel of Food Courts of Nevada and Subway of Nevada calls the seven deadly profitability problems: employee sloppiness, poor customer service, inadequate staffing during peak hours, slip-and-fall court suits, shrinkage, vandalism and...
- Tags: Food, Nevada, Food & Beverage, Corporate Communications, Manufacturing, Marketing
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- Sprint's Xohm service and the first "WiMax" review
- [Update 10/2/08: Hands-on reviews of Sprint's Xohm service, which is based on Mobile WiMax, have now been posted at LaptopMag.com (XOHM WiMAX In Baltimore: Speed Tests With XOHM ExpressCard) and PCMag.com Sprint XOHM Mobile WiMAX.] No sooner had Sprint flipped the switch on its WiMax wireless broadband...
- Tags: Mobile, Sprint Xohm, Clearwire Corp., Sprint Communications, Service, Laptop Card, WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-09-29
- What are we breathing now? Let me guess...
- There may be a partial answer at a newly created section of the EPA website. It lists all admitted toxic emissions from factories, government operations and other facilities around the U.S. Here's where you can go search your own zip code, or the one for your kid's school....
- Tags: Food, ZIP Code, Refinery, Chevron Corp., Food & Beverage, Web Site Development, Financial Statements, Web Technology, Manufacturing, Internet, Financial Accounting, Finance, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-10
- Lawns getting greener
- The Environmental Protection Agency is moving up the restrictions on emissions fron many small engines. This will include outboard motors lawnmowers. Those new, small conbustion engines will have to get cleaner over the next few years. Perhaps they can couple that move with a little...
- Tags: Lawn, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-09-09
- Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaks
- Nuclear renaissance has sprung a leak, or several leaksWe certainly do know what to do with the waste.The waste from fission reactors can be reprocessed to recover unused fuel, while the rest can be condensed and stored. We have a waste repository waiting in Nevada (you know, the place...
- Tags: leak, renaissance, nuclear energy, Nuclear renaissance, Nuclear Waste
- Discussion threads 2008-08-10
- Day 1: iPhone Dev Camp 2
- iPhone development has been strong for over a year now. Ever since the device debuted in June of 2007, people have been hacking away at the platform. Now, in the summer of 2008, we have an SDK. We are now allowed to build and submit apps that...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Adobe Systems Inc., Apple Inc., App, iPhone Development, iPhone App, Device, Tapulous, August Joki, 3G, Corporate Communications, XML, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Marketing, Software/Web Development, Web Development, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-02
- New ranking of the most solar-friendly utilities
- Not surprisingly, California-based utilities boast the highest percentage of solar-sourced power integrated into their electricity portfolios, according to a new report released by the Solar Electric Power Association. Southern California Edison and Pacific, Gas & Electric emerged as the utilities with the largest overall solar capacity by...
- Tags: Hawaii, Capacity, mW, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-07-27
- (Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)
- (Photos: World's most efficient solar dish?)Oh my what will the utility companies have to say about this?I am sure the utility companies will find reasons to downplay or eliminate this concept. Just like they make it financially impossible for the average American to afford to put up windmills for...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, wind generator, solar dish, dish, photograph, utility company
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
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