Jeff Beard

I was cruising around the Spitzer Space Telescope site and found a page that had a screen capture of a piece of software that continuously shows a prediction of the space craft’s position within the solar system. I noticed an oddly familiar dialog on the thumbnail view so I clicked on it to find this:

About once a year I try Linux on one of my workstations to see if it’s a viable alternative to Windows as my primary Operating System. Like many people, I can’t get completely away from Windows simply because the rest of the world uses it and Microsoft’s Office applications. Not only do I need convenient interoperability but I also need to test the software I write on that platform since my software constituency uses it almost exclusively. Read more »