Walt Boyes' Blog

What Our Readers Say About CONTROL From a recent survey of Control's readership... Tell us how useful CONTROL is to you and how you use it in your job. Gives me a good base of available technological advancements in control management and the likes. My use is educational to keep up with the industries and tools. Gives us ideas and other sources. Control is easily one of my … [Read more...] about Feedback is healthy…

Microsoft today announced that they will license the Windows operating system source code...or at least major parts of it, in order to comply with the European Union court order instructing them to do so. It had been speculated that Microsoft might not comply with the order and continue to pay the enormous fines the EU has been levying. Why I bring this up is that this has … [Read more...] about Windows Source Code Available

A few years ago, a young man who was already the President of his own system integration firm in his 20s started coming to ISA President's meetings and to CSIA meetings. His name was Jonathan Pollet and his company was PlantData Technologies, in Houston. Jonathan and I did a program together for CSIA, and I found him energetic, smart, and knowledgeable beyond his years. In … [Read more...] about Young Jonathan Pollet makes good!

Emerson Process Management has published Edition V of its Pressure Regulator Application Guides. The guides, previously combined into one volume known as the Regulator Handbook, are now available in two volumes – Natural Gas Regulators and Industrial Regulators. The guides serve as a reference for technical applications and pressure data on Emerson’s Fisher® natural gas and … [Read more...] about Emerson re-issues the Pressure Gauge Manual

  For everybody who hates patent trolls, today's refusal by the Roberts court to hear an appeal from Research In Motion on the defective ruling by the trial court judge in the case of Giant Patent Troll NTP and RIM over bogus patents that NTP owns is a travesty. The USPTO (the patent office) has already said that they will find the NTP patents void, they just have to go … [Read more...] about Supremes RIMshot Blackberry…