seti@home
I first joined the distributed computer project SETI@Home back on 1999 April 12th. That means early next year will be 20 years. Wow. Very few things survey for 20 years…
Radiojove vs lightning
This is the affect of the thunderstorm/lightning storm that rolled through our area last night… less than an hour overhead directly, but the Radiojove radio telescope system was picking up…
Supersid anomaly
This is a screen capture of the Supersid v1.2.2 software capturing the Supersid receiver data. We’ve started to notice that overtime the plotted graph shrinks down to almost no signal.…
ISS transit of the Sun 2018June02
On Saturday 2018 June 2nd, we drove over to the Venus transit site south of Newburgh (staying on the public road part and not trespassing) to observe and image the…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden over the years
Google Earth has a nice feature of making accessible historical satellite imagery. Below are the various images from the last few years of the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. 2011…
Tomatos 2018 May
The tomatos have come out of the greenhouse and have been hardening off outside for the last three days. So far so good, no losses. This is the approximate list,…
SCGO Potatos in
On Friday 2018 May 25th, the SCGO Potato crop was finished planting. In addition to a few earlier types planets in VegBed6, the majority were put in VegBed4. The black…
Napanee Community Food Bank Garden 2018
Another year and another location for the Napanee Community Food Bank Garden. Yes.. they moved down the field from the previous few years location. The new main bed is approx…
Squirrel!
Squirrels… the bane of bird feeders everywhere. We have two bird feeders on top of a 4×4 post, maybe 6.5′ above ground. Before the last seed dropped into the dish,…
spring is here?
The last two weekends (2018 May 5-6 and 12-13) have been the first warm and best of the year… now if only the black flies would die off (3 weeks…
ssd upgrade
Solid State Drives (SSDs) are one of the best upgrades you can get for your system (server, workstation and laptop). One of the issues they do have however, is that…
More Linux fedora 28 upgrades
It’s been 24 hours now and the first linux inplace upgrade from fedora 27 to fedora 28 is still working well. So well that I started more upgrades. The first…
Dirt! Earth!
Wonder how much dirt it takes to fill up this raised bed? 1. calculate out cubage in feet: 4’x16’x16″ = 4’x16’x1.3′ = 83 ft^3 2. One yard of dirt is…
Linux Fedora 28 locks up after upgrade
Executive Summary: Fedora 27 to 28 upgrade leaves desktop locked up. Linux Fedora 28 was released yesterday and I missed the note! So first thing this morning I sit down…
spring arrives and things run amuck
One of the “first” real days of spring yesterday (Mon April 30th 2018)… warm temperatures, no rain, wow. The greenhouse: outside the eavestrough was siliconed to help it stop leaking;…