I have been involved in a new opensource project over the past several months called Nighttime Imaging ‘N’ Astronomy (“NINA”). NINA is ground-breaking both in the hobby of amateur astrophotography and personally. An artifact of several historical reasons, the world of computer-controlled astrophotography is dominated by Windows applications. As such, Read More ...
NINA developer Stanley Dimant has produced a video which details and explains the many new features and refinements which will debut with the upcoming 1.8 release. Read More …
After doing some touch-ups to NINA’s integration with ZWO cameras to get familiar with coding in C# and how camera support in NINA is done, I felt ready to tackle implementing support for an entirely new camera. For this, I chose to implement native support for QHY cameras and started Read More …
This week, I worked with my colo provider and was allotted use of 2607:f308:7::/48 – 80 bits of IPv6 address space totaling 1,208,925,819,614,629,174,706,176 IPv6 addresses to call my own. That’s one septillion, two hundred eight sextillion, nine hundred twenty-five quintillion, eight hundred nineteen quadrillion, six hundred fourteen trillion, six hundred twenty-nine billion, one Read More …
I had been a Sun/Solaris fan all of my professional life – I started out on a Tatung SPARCstation 5 clone running SunOS 4.1.4 which served as the main server of the small mom & pop ISP I worked for immediately out of high school. SunOS 4 turned to Solaris 2, Read More …
I got this forwarded to me from a friend, who got it from a friend, who has a relative working at NASA: Although we remained hopeful he would wake up and fly away, the bat eventually became IPR 119V-0080 after the ICE team finished their walkdown. He did change the direction he Read More …
Photos from my two week trip to Portugal to see the country and attend Boom Festival are up. Various places in Portugal Boom Festival 2008 photos
mercury.elemental.org is the server which hosts my $HOME and this website. It’s my Solaris 10 play-box, and I guess you can say that maintaining it is something of a hobby. Its hardware is a quad core Xeon-equipped Dell PowerEdge 860, a small 1u server. Its pair of internal drives are Read More …
Many reviews have been written about OpenSolaris since its release, but all of them barely tread beyond the desktop aspect, with the obligatory screenshots of the GNOME environment and a high-level description of only the major features most are already familiar with, or at least have heard of. I’d like Read More …
I’ve been really quiet with the astronomy-related blog posts over the past year, but that doesn’t mean that I’ve been straying from the hobby of amateur astronomy – far from it. I’ve signed up with two local clubs and have been brining my scopes out to star parties (or just Read More …
With a bit of sadness, yesterday marked my last day of work at UMBC where I spent the past 3½ years learning lots of new things. It’s where I developed my deep interest in mass storage and furthered my Solaris knowledge even more, where I delved into kernel programming by Read More …