The Firefox web browser is the flagship product of the Mozilla Foundation and its community of Open Source developers. It got its initial start, leadership and programmers, from the failure of Netscape which was overwhelmed by Internet Explorer, in the late 1990s. Today, Firefox battles fellow heavyweights Chrome and IE, and lesser combatants, in the ongoing global Browser Wars.
Month: December 2014
Treesearch, US Forest Service Publications the U.S. Forest Service online library
Screenshot of USFS Treesearch homepage, 2011
Treesearch is the site [1. U.S. Forest Service website] that provides easy access to a database of tens of thousands of Forest Service research papers, documents and projects from across a span of many decades.
The Forest Service itself is divided administratively into six Regions and corresponding Research Stations, each of which has historically addressed topics & issues that pertain to the different regions of the United States. One of the ways in which the Treesearch database is organized, in turn, is on the basis of these regions. So an interest in the forests and ecology of any given region of our continent can be persued, without having to paw through nonapplicable database results for the other regions. … cont’d >
Ansel Adams Ansel Adams Photographs of National Parks and Monuments
Tetons and Snake – Ansel Adams
Ansel Adams was a successful commercial photographer & artist with a long career. But in 1941 he contracted with the government to record scenes in National Parks and public lands. This body of work became legal public property, and the set of 220 images is now becoming fully available to the public. Many are familiar pictures that are favorites of Americans. … cont’d >
Test post 2
Coconut palm covered Abaiang atoll, Kiribati
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Hello World! the computer-era version of 'Testing-testing!'
Hello World! is a standardized minimum computer program, intended eg as an example for beginners, or as a comparison of different programming languages, for advanced users. Hello World! is an icon of computer culture, with significance beyond its utility or pedagogy roles.
in C:
#includeint main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); }