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[callahanshappy]

I finished reshelving my cds with all of my 2008 purchases in the proper order and updated my database.  I found a copy of "Stardate Unknown" by The Vulcan Freedom Fighters that had somehow been switched with my Children of the Bong "Sirius Sounds" cd and returned them to their proper spaces

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[suzilem]

Hydro? ESRI?

ABB...
RANGER...
SCADA...
EMS...
OSI...
PI...
HISTORIAN...
BOWTIE...
RTU...

:-)

[callahanshappy]

David Maidment.

If RANGER is the SUN Constellation Linux Cluster at Texas-Austin, it came up in Maidment's presentation for CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Sciences, Inc) at the ESRI conference. The USGS hydrology professionals from Austin also seemed excited.

CUAHSI is working to establish a Deep Underground Science and Engineering Lab (DUSEL) at a former gold mine in South Dakota. Subsurface hydrology geeks are going to really going to be in heaven if they can work on an NSF project there sometime during the next decade.

[suzilem]

I work for an electric utility. We use an ESRI installation (running on an Oracle backend) to manage design and mapping for substations and the power grid in our service area. RANGER is the name of the runtime application that ESRI ultimately builds (ESRI dumps into another Oracle database and produces the tables that hold the metadata that creates the runtime objects). It gets interesting (for certain values of interesting). :-)

[callahanshappy]

Oh, ok. My second guess would have been the Ranger dataloggers that we use in some of our gps systems at work. I don't think I wandered into the electric utilities area of the ESRI Users Conference in 2007 (I probably looked at stormwater because of the relationship to surface water, but most of my time was spent attending surface water, wetlands, groundwater, and land conservation presentations).