The Drive is done
The system was shut down, the new WD Green 3TB drive (about $130 from amazon.ca) was installed and the system restarted. Linux fdisk does not partition greater than 2TB so…
Drive failure terror
This is a Seagate Barracuda Green 2tb sata hard drive with a date code of 12181 (which is 2011 October 31). It is a model # ST2000DL003. It failed Sunday…
Laptop repair
This is a 6 year old HP dv6500 laptop. It’s fan makes the most irritating noise one can imagine. So today, we took 2 hours to take it apart and…
Goodbye WinNT4 server
Now that it is gone, I can talk about it. Windows NT4 server came out in 1996 and replaced our novell netware server. actually Nt server 3.51 replaced the netware…
Laptop upgrade
A few month back we successfully replaced a toshiba laptop 2.5″ spinning hard drive with a 120GB SSD (solid state Drive). It was a simple single primary NTFS partition that…
Canon A2400IS bites the dust
This was our only digital camera, a Canon A2400IS. We got it in September of 2012 and up until 2 months ago, have been ecstatic about it. It was high…
Linux Fedora 19 to 20 updates a breeze
Linux Fedora 20 was released earlier this week and the operating system updates on all but one server went the smoothest, fastest and with the least issues ever. The standard…
wordpress update
There was a wordpress update to the site this morning and it broke a little of the theme we were using at the time. So this is a quick choice…
tech failures
Over the last two weeks we’ve had some tech failures in the computing area here at Starlight Cascade. First we investigated a very loud noise coming from the observatory one…
google nexus 7 woes
For the last week of so we have had serious issues with our 1 year old google nexus 7 tablet. The behaviour has been: It starts up, displays the “google”…
Telescope Mirror Cleaning
On Sunday October 27th 2013, 6 members of the Kingston Astronomy Club got together to remove, clean and replace the two optical mirrors in the 16″ telescope. The entire process…
OS Upgrade success
The operating system running this web server was upgrade today from Linux Fedora 17 to Linux Fedora 19 in a little under 4 hours, including 1 hour to make a…
Web Server Maintenace
The web server that this site sits on is tentatively scheduled for maintenance on Monday 2013 September 16th, from about 07:30-12:00 EDT (or 11:30-16:00 UT). It will be offline during…