Category: Geekery
Luddites beware.
Astro-imaging and timekeeping
It’s somewhat often that I see an astro-imager get befuddled with a time-related issue. Sometimes their mount will be found pointing 1 hour ahead or behind the target after being commanded to slew to the target’s coordinates. Other times an Read More …
On N.I.N.A. as free and open source software
Time to time, the question of “what astrophotography software do I use?” is asked on forums. Users of various software relate their impressions and preferences and, presumably, the person who posed the question is armed with the knowledge and clarity Read More …
Adding QHY SDK Support to NINA
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 Read More …
elemental.org now live on IPv6
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 Read More …
On illumos community
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 Read More …
Fruit Bat hitches ride on the Space Shuttle
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 Read More …
Portugal vacation photos
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
OpenSolaris 2008.11 – A Preview For The Storage Admin
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 Read More …
Server upgrade time – elemental.org gets modern
After almost 8 years of running elemental.org mail, mailing lists, shell accounts, many websites (such as this one), database servers and essentially being a one-server ISP, the Sun Ultra 2 which ran all those things as lithium.elemental.org was retired and replaced this past weekend Read More …
Verizon FiOS with only a Apple Airport Extreme
I’ve had Verizon’s FiOS service for about a year now, and by and large I’ve enjoyed it quite a bit. One thing that has bothered me, though, is the big ActionTec router that they supply. It’s a nice router and Read More …