English 421Y: Technical Writing Online

Source: Consumerenergycenter.org by the California Energy Commission

For my second research blog I started looking up the technical reviews for my Netgear router. One of the better ones that I found was at New York Times tech review. The editor reviewing this router did a very thorough test in my opinion as was able to point out many pros and cons of this router that may be important to a person looking to purchase this for a company's wireless solution.

For this research blog, I am choosing a journal article that is published by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers. The title of the article is Integrating Energy Options. I found this article in the Indiana University Library journal database of academic journals.

Thinking about all the uses of open source programming one thought crossed my mind, security. I stumbled across this site, http://www.albion.com/security/intro-7.html, which talks about how open source programming can be very beneficial, but not always secure. By having the source openly available for everyone to see it makes it easier for people to go in and make them more secure for their users. This website talks about why it is easier and how problems have been fixed in the past.

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.

This week our group spent most of its time using and researching the three different browsers (Opera, Firefox, IE) and our audience. We are becoming familiar with all of the browsers and starting to see the real benefits of each, when compared on the same scale. We all have favorite features with each browser, but our research is still focused on the point of which would be the preferred browser for an IT specialist/department. As a group we are beginning to focus in on the main features we want to highlight and compare.

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.