Dr. Who – Cybus Corporation
www.cybuscorporation.com – Runs the SunOne webserver. Cybus founded in 1982, Sun Microsystems founded 1982.Participation age eh? Perhaps its too easy to get too stuck into Dr. Who! 🙂 Long live the Daleks! Read more
2nd Solar Eclipse
According to eclipse chasers you can count seeing a solar eclipse, just by being in the path of totality. So technically my trip to Cornwall, UK in 1999 for the Solar Eclipse there counts. Despite it being raining for the morning of the eclipse. The next total Solar Eclipse that I managed to get to was on March 28th. The trip was organised under the Irish Federation of Astronomical Societies, and unberella group of all Read more
Out with the old in with the .eu!
Last week .eu domains went on sale to the general public in EU countries. Today there are 17,645 active .eu domains registered in Ireland out of a total of 1,410,297. Some of those 17.645 are mine. I’ve moved my personal website from cademuir.net to www.cademuir.eu. I’ve also set up www.realteolaiocht.eu which at the moment just points to the Irish Astronomical Dictionary on the South Dublin Astronomical Society website. I recently decided to change the SDAS Read more
Well done Dave!
Well done Dave! 20th position in the olympics isnt bad at all! Dave spent a while working with the Performance Benchmarking group in Sun. Skeleton results Friday 17 Friday Men’s individual: Final overall positions: run 1, run 2, final 1 Duff Gibson (Canada) 57.80secs, 58.08secs, 1min 55.88 secs 2 Jeff Pain (Canada 57.98, 58.16, 1:56.14 3 Gregor Staehli (Switzerland) 58.41, 1:56.80 4 Paul Boehm (Canada) 58.61, 58.45, 1:57.06 5 Kristan Bromley (Great Britain) 58.35, 58.75, Read more
Connaught Star Party
Ah the participation age! Here (live!) at the IFAS stand at the Connacht Star Party we have nearly live 3D images from Mars. Midnight Mars Browser is Java application that can download images from the two Nasa rovers on Mars. So we downloaded images from the surface for the past couple of days, some of which were taken only hours previously. And they were in 3D. We run the risk of making 3D glasses popular Read more
Learning Java
I had a bit of a cold this weekend, so didn’t leave the house much. In fact I didn’t leave my bed much. To pass the time I decided to learn Java. As you do. First stop was netbeans.org to download the IDE. I could have just started writing the code in vi but I wanted to see if these IDE’s are as cool as people tell me. After running through the quickstart guide I Read more
ZFS implications for patching
A colleague of mine made an interesting comment today while we were getting a cup of tea. (We drink lots of tea in Patch Test, possibly because there is a big whiteboard near the kettle, or rather a kettle near a big whiteboard somewhere other than a meeting room…) Anyway, the comment was about the future of patching now that ZFS is alive. One thing that ZFS allows you to do is manage snapshots of Read more
Bubble dejaVu
Bubble dejaVu In the bubble days it wasn’t uncommon to have several mails a day from somewhere in Sun telling you about some big announcement, or some big sale. Today was just like one of those days. For a start, after a couple of years of painfully low presence in the Top 500 Sun plans to get back into the Top 5 with a project involving the Tokyo Institute of Technology. This will be accomplished Read more
Oh for dtrace in XP
I’m into astronomy. I’m currently doing an MSc in it. But mainly I like it as a hobby, usually just observing but also imaging. Most astrophotography software is written for windows (MaximDL, Registax, ImagesPlus), the pros will use IRAF but that’s overkill for most of what I do. Earlier in the year I got a canon 350D (digital rebel XT to the yanks). And most useful processing tools for regular images are windows only also Read more
Supernova confirmed from Ireland
Dave McDonald sent a post to the Irish Astronomy forum the other day announcing that he had confirmed a supernova. As with many sciences once you make a discovery, it needs to be verified before you are taken seriously, and Dave was asked to verify the discovery and did so with rather modest equipment. The image below was recorded with an 8″ telescope, and a $300 ccd camera; granted the mount he uses is large Read more