Web server hardware upgrade trials
This web site, and others that the server hosts, is scheduled for some new hardware in the near future. In preparation for the switchover, the site may be down for…
observatory network recabled
After years of bad, intermittent and in some cases no network access from the observatory at all, we fixed it. The original cat5 cable was laid down almost ten years…
stupidity run amuck
Copyright board to charge for music at weddings, parades The Canadian Press Posted: Jun 1, 2012 9:33 AM ET From http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/story/2012/06/01/music-tariff-recorded-copyright-board.html >Money can’t buy love — but if you want…
Internet problems
For the last 5 days now, our automated routines for copying data from home up to this starlightcascade web server have failed. We are using linux fedora 15 and a…
WD 2tb mybook essential
We picked up a Western Digital 2tb mybook essential with USB2 and 3 capability last week (April 2012), on sale for about $120 from Staples. It is an external USB…
dead file server
2012 March 29 As we’ve written about many times, we have a lot of automated data collection going on that includes but is not limited to: allsky camera images radiojove…
Daylight Savings Time is not
Sunday morning was yet another exercise in futility, wasted time! and effort for no good reason also known as Spring Ahead! for Daylight Savings Time. Personally we: -walked throughout the…
$@#$ hard drives!
So I have a new machine at work to setup. It came with windows 7 on a 1tb drive. We ordered another smaller drive (250gb) to have the operating system…
Observatory Network link back up
A couple of weeks ago we started getting intermittent network connectivity to the observatory and to the two data gathering systems running there. Yesterday the cable break was temporarily repaired.…
test cr2118
This is a test using Picasa v3.9 for cr2118 Success! So, the object is to easily generate a nicely laid out page of thumbnail images linking to the larger resolution…
Radiojove back up
On December 16th, 2011 the laptop computer running the radiojove data logger had a hard drive failure. The Radiojove system continues to run but nothing has been logged or recorded…
GPS Receiver BU-353
One of the christmas (2011) gifts was a USB GPS receiver, the BU353. As it turns out, for our intended uses of using it strictly as an accurate source of…
laptop failure
The laptop computer running the radiojove project failed on Friday the 16th of December. Specifically the old 30gb IDE hard drive now makes either no noise or a whole lotta…
software updates
just a short note to point out that a couple of pieces of software that we use have been updated recently. The first is the BOINC, moving up to v6.12.34…