New WordPress theme test
Our standby wordpress theme has been “aspire” for quite a while. One of the drawbacks is that it was fixed width. As monitors have gotten wider and wider, there was…
linux fedora 17 to 19 test
We still have two systems that run on linux Fedora 17 and as you may have read earlier, Fedora 19 came out a few weeks back. We ran into some…
meade lx200 hand controller woes
This is the hand controller for the Meade LX200 GPS telescope. It is approx 10 years old now and the buttons have become a real pain to use. One must…
linux fedora 18 to 19 upgrade
Linux Fedora 19 was released yesterday, Tuesday July 2nd, 2013. I downloaded the 32bit, 64 bit and live versions in the morning, made DVD’s of them, and will use them…
newer smaller cheaper computers needed
We have more than a few computers spread around. And seeing that they run at the very least $200-300 for the smallest netbooks, it soon gets very expensive to dedicate…
SETI@Home Update
An update on our seti@home progress. The SETI@Home client program was recently upgraded and today we downloaded v7.0.64 to install on the PCs and v7.0.65 for the macs. We are…
The Lunar X
We got home late but not too late to still observe and image the Lunar X feature on the moon. The event peaked around 20:00 local but was still visible…
accurate time
Astronomers watch the mostly static skies. Once in awhile, something moves. Sometimes things move fast.. very fast. At those times it is very useful to know what time it is.…
dead dlink
Yesterday (Wednesday April 10th, 2013), we had some strange happenings with a couple of computers that host the weather station, SID2 and ALLSKY2. They were popping on and off the…
Software update day
It’s a nice quiet day at home with all of the cats asleep and time to do some software updates. Stellarium 0.12 from 0.11.4 – an astronomy planetarium software program,…
another fedora upgrade experience
Yesterdays linux fedora 16 to 17 upgrade did not complete so I didn’t get a chance to try out the next phase of the process, fedora 17 to 18, on…
SID1 status
The old Sudden Ionsopheric Disturbance system 1 (SID1) does not seem to have survived the transition from the old computer running windows NT2000 and having a physical COM1 port, to…
Linux Fedora 16 upgrade fail
Fedora 16 linux installation I have a couple of old linux fedora 16 servers that are now longer supported, and do not get updates any longer. They must be upgraded…