Tuesday, March 29, 2011

decsribing software

the websit has Free Software Directory. It also has catorgreies such as Audio
Business and productivity
Database
Education
Email
Games
Graphics
Hobbies
Interface
Internet applications
Live communications
Localization
Mathematics
Printing
Science
Security
Software development
Software libraries
System administration
Text creation and manipulation
Video
Web authoring.
It states that Free software is a matter of liberty, not price. Think of "free" as in "free speech," not as in "free beer." Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software. As well as The Free Software Directory is a project of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) and United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). We catalog useful free software that runs under free operating systems — particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants.

Nuclear Power Plant Research

The search engines I used were the metasearch engine search.com google advanced search and ask.com.
The site I found particularly relevant is www.threemileisland.org.

The websites is very organizated it gives data in sequence of time and date. As well as videos, pictures and charts to better help our under standing.
The website anthority is that of the three miles power plant company so it information is first hand. Also it gives information in much detail. The scope of the information is in a wide range and given day by day. Inorder of which the event happened.