[fedora-astronomy] Introductions
Lamar Owen
lowen at pari.edu
Wed Jan 2 20:55:44 UTC 2008
On Wednesday 02 January 2008, Marek Mahut wrote:
> Lamar Owen wrote:
> > The 4.6 meter Andrew parabolic is in active use for our School of
> > Galactic Radio Astronomy educational program, and has a 1.42GHz hydrogen
> > RF chain and spectrometer. This telescope is currently internet
> > controllable through a Java applet in-browser (the applet doesn't work
> > with the F8 java stack, unfortunately), and with a custom java servlet
> > backend.
> Is the java applet available somewhere? I'm wondering why it's not
> working with IcedTea java.
The login page is at http://smileycontrol.pari.edu/smiley
I can't test past this page, because the username and password fields cannot
take my data entry.
> > We have a number of other programs; you can see the breadth of them on
> > our website at www.pari.edu
> That's a nice gear. I hope to have chance visit your institute if I'm
> around someday. :)
I'd be glad you show you around.
> Regarding Iraf, x11iraf is under review,
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=249614
> Since one month I'm trying to contact Mr. Romanovski, which after years
> of studies in US, is back in Russia.
> PyEphem and GNU Radio are on our wish list as well and I hope I'll
> package it.
> If someone is interesting in packaging GNU/Radio, Trond's spec file is
> available at http://trondd.fedorapeople.org/spec_files/.
I grabbed it a little while ago. PyEphem shouldn't be hard, either.
Depending upon how the rest of this week goes, I might take a crack at it by
the end of the week.
> Please, don't hesitate to come to our next meeting, so we can discuss
> what Fedora do for pari.edu.
I appreciate the great attitude! But I will, as a long time Fedora user, also
see what PARI can do for Fedora.
I would be willing, for sure, to provide mirror space and bandwidth for an
Astronomy spin, although I can't commit right now to a full Fedora mirror
(and the bandwidth usage that entails). Got 100Mb/s to the Internet and I2,
and 40+TB of disk.
Well, this one I'll have to admit; I _am_ an IRC newbie. Never had the need
before to do IRC; guess I have some stuff to learn. Can't be much more
difficult than learning how to run a CNews site in 1991 was..... I've always
been an e-mail guy, not a chat guy....
--
Lamar Owen
Chief Information Officer
Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute
1 PARI Drive
Rosman, NC 28772
(828)862-5554
www.pari.edu
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