More Linux fedora 28 upgrades
It’s been 24 hours now and the first linux inplace upgrade from fedora 27 to fedora 28 is still working well. So well that I started more upgrades. The first…
Dirt! Earth!
Wonder how much dirt it takes to fill up this raised bed? 1. calculate out cubage in feet: 4’x16’x16″ = 4’x16’x1.3′ = 83 ft^3 2. One yard of dirt is…
Linux Fedora 28 locks up after upgrade
Executive Summary: Fedora 27 to 28 upgrade leaves desktop locked up. Linux Fedora 28 was released yesterday and I missed the note! So first thing this morning I sit down…
spring arrives and things run amuck
One of the “first” real days of spring yesterday (Mon April 30th 2018)… warm temperatures, no rain, wow. The greenhouse: outside the eavestrough was siliconed to help it stop leaking;…
Observatory Renos
This is the main work surface in the observatory, located on the north side. In the roof rebuild, the work surface was relocated to the south side, so as to…
SCGO roof 2
720x480p 7MB video clip made with ffmpeg (converting still image .jpg to .mpg video, handbrake (conversion to mkv to allow movie maker to open it), movie maker for windows to…
High winds, roof flies, RIP SCGO
Yesterday, Wednesday 2018 April 4th, Eastern Ontario had a wind storm. It’s not the first we have had. Back in 2003? we had the remnants of a hurricane roll over…
Conjunction moon venus mercury
It was a rare event on Sunday 2018 March 18th, a conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Mercury in the western horizon after sunset. Taken with our old Canon DSLR…
Gardening Season has started at SCG
At the end of February we planted our onion seeds. Alisa Craig, South Port Red Globe and Red Wethersfield (2014) seed. So far only the Alisa Craig and South Port…
Observatory updates
Sunday 2018 March 11 More work continued on the Tardis Observatory this weekend. The eastern door hinge mounts were replaced with better, stronger and thicker wood, as the door was…
Kingston’s prison farms to reopen
Finally! What took them soooooo long??? Prison farms in Kingston had the best stats on prison programs reform. The Previous conservative government under harper aid they were not relevant… funny…
Got Frost?
We’ve been running data logging weather stations since 2002 and once in a while get the urge to analyze some of that data. One of the results is attached below……
System upgrade
This site just had a nice upgrade from a 320GB spinning hard drive hosting the operating system, web server and web content, to a smaller 240GB SSD hard drive. Performance…
New mount approaching first light.
A small dovetail does the trick in attaching the Meade DS90 Optical Tube Assembly (OTA) to the Meade mount. A layer of cork is between the ring and the dovetail…