Part of Bernhard Reiter's archive.

Bernhard Reiter's Home Page

my homepage at Uni-Osnabrück ( gnuplot,piecharts,monte-carlo,thesis(in German))

My free software company Intevation GmbH

my FFII Homepage related to the Association for Promoting a Free Informational Infrastructure.

By me

Geographic Techniques Seminar ( 960, Fall 1999): Cartography leaving Geography?!, a provocative Paper (pdf and tex).
Fieldcourse (650, Summer 1999) in Montana: New Media and Alternative Economy in South eastern Montana short papers and material.
Local Unix (on UWM) Hints.
Canadian Daily Climate CD Python module, a hack to extract data from a special proprietory data CD.

Recommendations

[ 20031228: Here used to be a link to Jim Pick's linux (the kernel) overview site. See an archived version from 19991104 of Kernelnotes.org. ]
Python is an interpreted, general purpose, object-oriented programming language. It is Free Software, mature and available for almost any platform. (In that sense I prefer it over Tcl, perl, Java and proprietary languages, like Virtual Basic (Yes, python can script Win32 Applications, just as VB can.) ) It is a good language to learn programing in.
Usable information technology website by J. Nielsen. How to make the WWW usable.
Debian GNU/Linux complete operating system distribution with applications. It is all Free Software. Master the tool computer and try it.
Categories of Free and Non-Free Software The differences between Free Software, Open Source and Freeware explained.
Word Processors: Stupid and Inefficient, Allin Cottrell is in favour of LaTeX, radical with good arguments.
Talk.Origins Archive: Exploring the creation/evolution controversy from a mainstream scientific perspective.
People interested in GNU/Linux locally might want to check out the Milwaukee Linux User Group.

Geography

GRASS (Geographic Resources Analysis Support System)

GRASS is a raster and vector GIS, image processing, graphics production and spatial modeling system. The software design is quite old fashioned and it is supposed to be free software according to the authors. New 5.0beta development version have become available. I build 5.0beta on OSF1/Alpha machines here at UWM for my GIS course.

My On-screen Presentation "Enjoying GRASS"(~510kb) and "Final Paper Version" "Enjoying GRASS(~460kb)" for GIS course 525 Spring 1999.
GRASS Homepage in Europe
GRASS Homepage at Baylor (Pages are updated less often.)
Bill Hughes' Homepage offers 64-bit and general GRASS source code patches.

Misc

Free GIS -- links to all free software GIS, Mapping and remote sensing efforts.
"From the plant to the satellite and back" Yes, I do Research about Phenology and climate with Mark Schwartz.
An Atlas of Cyberspaces Cybergeography?!!

About me

Since January 1999 I am a a Research Assistant and graduate/Ph.D. student in the Department of Geography. This is my new homepage. Got my degree in Applied Systems Science ("Diplom Systemwissenschaftler") 1998 from the University of Osnabrück, Germany. I founded the German based Intevation GmbH, a free software company.

archived: December 2003 - page revision: Sun Dec 26 16:35:13 CST 1999
28th December 2003: Replaced kernelnotes.org link, because I don not like to support a third party cashing in on the fame of the original side.

Part of Bernhard Reiter's archive.

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