English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

For this entry, I'd like to elaborate farther on research conducted relative to my specific area of interest, that being horizontal closed-loop geothermal systems. Another source that I found very useful on this topic was...

http://www.geo4va.vt.edu/

For my first research blog I decided to start by looking at the manufacturers website for the Netgear WGR 614 wireless router. The address of the manufacturers website is netgear WGR 614. To me this seemed like the logical place to start doing my research for the router.

Source: An article titled “A Survey of Standing Column Well, Installations in North America” written by American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning
Engineers, Inc.

Source: www.energysavers.gov by the United States department of Energy
Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

As I have been looking online for some good resources to use for this project I have had some trouble. While looking I came across the website http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/opensource.html. This website contains a lot of information pertaining to what open source is all about. It contains information regarding different types of open source programming, the history of open source, and the benefits of using open source. The most resourceful part of the site would be the information pertaining to the benefits of open source programming.

The next ECM platform on the list is IBM’s FileNet P8.

This document highlights the information I found most useful from the website
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/features/#password-manage
for my white paper project. This website features the advantages of Mozilla Firefox a web browser that provides a number of superior advantages in use.

In my second research blog I will be summarizing the information that I have found from http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/tested-google-chrome-vs-ie8-v... for my white paper project. The information from this website has information from Tech Radar, which is a news source website that discusses emerging technology in all different categories.

Topic: Solar Radiation Maps

Source: National Renewable Energy Laboratory

As I was doing my research for this white paper, I stumbled across some valuable information. I was looking for information in the form of text to reference for writing the body of our document, but I forgot that visuals are always helpful in relaying information. That’s when I saw many different variations of graphs, charts, and maps from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

The last piece of research I found seemed to gleam the most information for me. It had several sections outlining a list of open source software used cost savings versus capabilities gained, implicit savings in hardware, other implicit cost savings( such as security, lower virus vulnerability and upgrade costs) and finally the roadblock to using open source software.