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This project is to create a telescope all by myself. I started this project for two reasons:
I wanted to experience the thrill of building my own telescope
Save some money (good quality readymade...
TelescopeDiaries » A fresh start
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Recap
The mirror I was making for the last three years met an untimely and tragic end, sometime in May 2009.
I had just...
For those burned by the latest internet carrier outage, try adding an alternate DNS server to your resolv.conf (or its equivalent in other operating systems). This will solve problems faced by some...
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Optimising Linux performance and power
Continuous Improvement strategies for software
Comparing C with Scala
Notes for my own use:
Ideas for a package...
I am a heavy user of dot (from the graph viz package). I use it for creating graphs automatically (from scripts/programs/etc).
But when it comes to quickly creating a graph manually, there is only...
Hello and welcome to my blog, which will deal with programming and other silly hobbies of mine.
This page has a feed that you can track (if you use Firefox, you may see the feed icon in the...
Introduction
There are a number of on-line sources which compare different high level languages with each other. However, I couldn't find a ready reference comparing C with a high-level language...
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Preface
Software regressions cost a lot of time and energy to fix. Changes happen; they are a part of life. But It depresses me much to see a well written piece...
One of the best linux games I have played in recent times:
Defcon
Gameplay is nice. Graphics are simple but nicely polished.
If you find graphics to be very slow, disable the "Smooth Lines" option,...
TelescopeDiaries » Done with 120 Grit
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It has been a long time since I posted, but I have been busy grinding the mirror with 120 Grit.
It took much...
It's been a long time since my last update on my telescope project, so here it comes.
Jan 09
I tried a very crude focault test, and thought that mirror was ready for aluminizing.
Luckily, the guy...
I finally got off my lazy hind and built a Focault tester.
The mirror holder was the only new thing I had to build. I had a slit and knife edge ready from a previous attempt.
After gazing at the...
Woooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooooo!
Saw the first sight through my telescope, and it was brilliant!
I was able to get a working assembly of my scope late yesterday evening. But the weather...
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I enjoy programming, and here are some quick links to projects I have worked on:
UpRoot.in
House of Mirrors
Anthias
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I have been using Trac for my last two projects. It works mostly as expected and the integration of Wiki+Ticketing+Subversion saves a lot of time. I have been fairly satisfied with...
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A anthias / hot-wire system, but built out of scala
A distributed revision control system (like...
One of the advantages of a functional programming language like Scala, is that you can implement parser combinators easily. This is a quick introduction to the topic.
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It's my newest pet project, a dynamic visualisation of Twitter contacts. There also suggestions offered about new contacts which might be of...
After several weeks of development and alpha testing by friends and family, we are releasing a stable version of a website I have been working on recently.
Ladies and gentlemen, please point your...
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Amy Bennett's art
Janine Rewell's Illustrations
Kalyan Varma's Photography
Ameen Ahmed's wildlife preservation
Favourite Firefox plugins
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've been tripping on lolcats these last few days. I Can Has Cheezburger is the perfect way to unwind after a tiring day.
I wonder how this lolcatz movement originated. The wikipedia article...
The mirror I am making for my telescope is almost done. But it is the last mile which is the most trying.
I am in the polishing stages of the mirror and two events happened today:
First the good...
Building the mount
After the successful "first light" through the telescope, I spent last week in frantically building the mount. It was an interesting exercise to calculate the height of the...
I love playing the piano. I am a n00bish player. I have performed once on stage and lived to tell the tale.
For now, here are some links to learning material:
Fundamentals of Piano practice
A...
This article is a work in progress
Things of interest:
vm.swappiness
kernel.shmmax
proc/sys/vm/dirty_ratio
proc/sys/vm/dirty_background_ratio
(explanation here )
To build a package manager for Fedora in scala, we need to build a stack. How deep can the scope be:
An rpm driver (the topmost layer of the package manager stack)
A JDBC interface in Scala (like...
While casually browsing the net I came across this implementation of Pythagoras tree in F#. Just for fun, I have recreated this in Scala.
The Pythagoras Tree is a fractal constructed by geometric...
While solving one of those online programming puzzles1 I needed to compute all points in a collection of rectangles. Note that these rectangles can overlap!
First attempt
One quick way to solve...
Update
Scala DBC2 seems to be in a state of orphanage.
There are newer attempts in this space, such as, scala-query and orbroker, which are likely to give you better mileage.
Scala Data base...
To be able to edit Scala source files in Vim comfortably, download the following file, and un-tar it in your $HOME/.vim directory.
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House of Mirrors is a puzzle game. It was originally written because,
I wanted to learn scala
I was missing Chromatron on...
Undecidability of the halting problem..
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As trekkers, in what seems like another lifetime, my wife and I had been eager to go out on a trip/trek for the last 2 years. We were also eager to take our year-old kid along, and so we had to...
For the last few months I have been trying to build a web site. Months? You may wonder why it's taking so long. It's nothing very fancy; just a simple input screen for a project I am working on....
As I saw this photo, a song played in my mind.
What a feeling.
Bein's believin'.
I can have it all,
now I'm dancing for my life.
Take your passion
And make it happen.
Pictures come alive,
you can...
According to Wikipedia, the world largest wiki site:
A Wiki ([ˈwiː.kiː] <wee-kee> or [ˈwɪ.kiː] <wick-ey>) is a type of website that allows users to add, remove, or otherwise edit...
It takes so many lines of cruft to load a simple image.
import java.awt.*
Image image = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit().getImage(args[0]);
MediaTracker mediaTracker = new MediaTracker(new...
It's amazing how much of their time people devote to contributing to open-source software and information.
I happened to see this superbly done map of our stellar neighbourhood, by inductiveLoad....
When I am learning something new, I like to start with basic, simple tools and ideas. When learning servlets, I was quite intimidated by the size of Tomcat and Jetty containers (both the download...
