Continuing unstable linux kernel 4.8.x
Over a month now of seeing almost daily lockups and kernel panics and crashes of the 4.8.x series of linux kernels used in fedora 24 and now 25. The problem…
Jupiter 20161123
The first powerup of the 20cm meade lx200gps (circa 2003) after the operation showed a display full of garbage characters. The second powerup showed normal operation… yay! The first pass…
Unstable linux kernel
For about a month now, ever since we started using the linux fedora 24 kernel series 4.8.x, we have been having intermittent crashes and lockups of four of our linux…
meade lx200gps battery replacement
As it turns out, when starting up a Meade LX200GPS telescope (circa 2003), and it displays a few rows of “taking GPS fix”, this means that the internal battery is…
KAON Saturday 2016 November 12
Greetings partially clear skies! For the first time in awhile the skies were clear enough to set up on the observing deck! The Kingston Astronomy Outreach Network (KAON) open house…
Master Garlic List 2016
Here is our master list of garlic types planted on Fri & Sat 2016 November 4&5 The missing numbers are ones that we have decided not to plant this year..…
Fall 2016 Garlic planted
It took us two days, 1 hour after work on Friday and almost 2 hours Saturday morning, to get the approx 500 bulbs of garlic planted in Veg bed #5.…
Farewell Dog River
Farewell Dog River Saskatchewan. We visited the set of Corner Gas on August 30th 2006, located in Rouleau Saskatchewan (south of Regina). It was great! The image above is one…
more gardening garage work
Prior to the garlic prep mentioned below, we had to clean and store the potato crop, to make room to work on the garlic. This is a sample of one…
garlic planting prep
Time seems to be in shorter supply every trip round the sun. This year we seem to have fallen behind so much so that it may be another couple of…
tesla powerwall
Today (Friday 2016 Oct 28) will be an announcement from Elon Musk about the Tesla Powerwall. This is a very interesting concept of storing power in your home and trying…
Greenhouse leakage
The new poly roof went up on the greenhouse 12 months ago, and has had since day one, a water leak whenever the wind is blowing while raining. That happens…
Napanee Garden Club met
The Lennox & Addington Horticultural Society (aka the Napanee Garden Club) met last night (Wednesday 2016 October 19th). There was a good turnout of 21 people for the second regular…
Jacking the Observatory
The Tardis Observatory is now up to 3 years old, and over that time the wooden 2×6 rails the 5″ wheels run on have degraded, warped, moved, and become rougher.…
WeatherPi issues
The Raspberry Pi called Weatherpi, has been out of action the last few days. Turned out there were some power issues and in some fashion the database was corrupted with…