Fedora 23 progress
To date we have had 4 of 5 linux fedora 23 updates completed, so far all without issue. Of particular note was an update from a troublesome system running fedora…
Linux Fedora 23 released
It’s always a good day when a new Fedora Linux gets released. Today was Fedora 23. There was no real rush to upgrade… we were already on kernel version 4.2…
windows 10 has arrived
Noticed midmorning that my windows 7 computer was busy downloading a windows update. I took a look at it was 27% of the way downloading approx 2.7GB of windows 10.…
linux fedora 22 issues
We have successfully updated from Linux fedora 21 to fedora 22, 5 systems now, all without any issues whatsoever. The 6th and final system however had failed, 10 times now.…
Linux Fedora 22 released today
Linux Fedora 22 was released this morning and two servers have been upgraded without issue… the smoothest upgrades yet. Total time to complete the upgrade has been about an hour.…
Server hardware issues
Apologies to one and all.. we have been experiencing some web server hardware issues over the last few weeks. Hopefully things are stable again for the time being. We are…
Math is fun!
Leo Laporte on Twit.tv was recently talking about a new internet connected talking Barbie with the infamous “Math is Hard!” scandal. Well.. math is not hard and this is simple…
crash recovery
Our server had a power supply fail, taking with it many sectors of the 320GB SATA hard drive. The bad sectors contained a lot of the mysql database. Luckily we…
Linux Fedora 21
The latest in the Linux Fedora distribution was released Tuesday, 2014 Dec 09. It now comes in three major versions, workstation, server and the new cloud. Not sure what that…
linux drive replacement
Another data backup drive that is old and small and getting too full. The system is running linux fedora 20 on an older piece of hardware.. at least it has…
convert current.png +distort DePolar 0 current-pan.png
Ever since I saw a sample of an allsky (or ultrawideangle) image being turned into a 360 deg panorama, I have known it was possible but did not know the…
adventures in Hard drive cloning
Adventures in hard drive cloning. Starting point: a linux based file server with a 320GB SATA drive as a boot drive. Overkill for sure as less than 20GB or 30GB…
adventures in Pi
This is the Raspberry Pi, a very small computer that has some great potential in replacing larger desktop computers and use a heck of a lot less power. I bought…
finished scanning 3500+ 35mm slides
After a few weeks I think we have completed the digitization of over 3500 35mm slides. It was a gas, seeing as how they have been stuck in boxes in…