Bluetooth Blues
How I won the battle against "COM port numbering frenzy"
Yesterday, I was tinkering with my new bluetooth GPS antenna. Since my 3-year old laptop has no bluetooth support, I also purchased a USB-bluetooth dongle (D-Link DBT-122).
When I installed the dongle driver, the bluetooth COM port was mapped to COM14: much to my surprise, the GPS antenna diagnostic application allowed COM port numbers only up to 12: this prevented me from using the GPS receiver.
When I installed the dongle driver, the bluetooth COM port was mapped to COM14: much to my surprise, the GPS antenna diagnostic application allowed COM port numbers only up to 12: this prevented me from using the GPS receiver.
2007: here it comes!
New year, same ol' stuff
Here we are. A new year has just begun... and once again we have to trash our old calendars and daybooks. It's also time to look back at the year that has just slipped away and make plans for the upcoming times.
As far as I am concerced, who knows what I'll be faced with in the time to come... Anyway, I do have quite a few upcoming astronomical and software projects, and a huge backlog of astronomical imagery (both deep-sky and planetary) to process (No additions to my astrophoto gallery in the last six months).
So, please stay tuned and check back often as more updates will show up on this blog!
As far as I am concerced, who knows what I'll be faced with in the time to come... Anyway, I do have quite a few upcoming astronomical and software projects, and a huge backlog of astronomical imagery (both deep-sky and planetary) to process (No additions to my astrophoto gallery in the last six months).
So, please stay tuned and check back often as more updates will show up on this blog!
Old website updates
The old site update page is going to be dismissed, check them out here!
Here's the complete list of all updates to my homepage till december 2006:
- 08/06/06: New picture in the gallery: Comet SW3 fragment B
- 08/06/06: New pictures of Jupiter in the gallery
- 21/05/06: Traduzione in italiano dell'articolo sulla Synta EQ6
- 16/05/06: Update to the EQ6 fine tuning article (English)
- 13/05/06: New pictures and animations in the gallery (Jupiter)
- 10/05/06: Nuova sezione di album fotografici dei viaggi (Italiano)
- 15/04/06: Complete report of the 29 March 2006 total solar eclipse from El Salloum, Egypt (English)
- 10/04/06: Resoconto completo del viaggio in Egitto per l'eclisse totale di Sole del 29 marzo 2006 (Italiano)
- 20/03/06: New picture in the gallery (Penumbral eclipse)
- 29/01/06: New pictures in the gallery (M42)
- 29/01/06: New pictures in the gallery (M45)
- 20/01/06: New article: EQ6 mount fine tuning adventures (English)
- 26/12/05: New article: Maximum Length of planetary imaging movies (English)
- 26/12/05: Articolo: Durata massima dei filmati per riprese planetarie (Italiano)
- 10/12/05: New Mars animation in the gallery
- 18/11/05: New pictures in the gallery (Mars)
- 27/10/05: New picture in the gallery (Eclipse sequence and composite)
- 13/10/05: Resoconto dell'eclisse anulare del 3 ottobre 2005 (italiano)
- 13/10/05: 3 October 2005 annular eclipse report (English)
- 12/10/05: Short review of the Skywatcher ED80 refractor (English)
- 12/10/05: Breve recensione del rifrattore Skywatcher ED80 (italiano)
- 19/07/05: New images in the gallery (Hi-res moon shots)
- 13/07/05: New image in the gallery: M31
- 08/07/05: JDA1: new manual versions available
- 03/07/05: JDA1: new version available for download
- 13/06/05: JDA1: Software GoTo per Astromeccanica DA-1 (italian)
- 13/06/05: GoTo Software for Astromeccanica DA-1 drive (english)
- 14/05/05: New picture in the gallery (M13 and NGC 6207)
- 17/04/05: New pictures in the gallery (Mars, Jupiter, Saturn)
Just back from JavaPolis
A brief report
I'm just back home from JavaPolis (Antwerp, Belgium), where I held my BOF on parallel computing and image processing with my pal Fabrizio Giudici. I must say I was very surprised at the high level of this conference; it's by far the best such event I've ever taken part in, at least as compared to the local (Italian) conferences, and except for JavaOne (but I can't really comment on that since I've never been there).
See full report for further details!
See full report for further details!
Bound for JavaPolis
A journey to the European Java Conference
On the 13th of december, Fabrizio Giudici and I will be giving a short talk (as a BOF session) on a Java-based parallel computing project of ours. This very application describes an application of parallel computing to image processing, with a view also to astronomy-oriented tasks.
You can find the full description of our BOF session at this link.
You can find the full description of our BOF session at this link.
Bloomingstars.com undergoes major overhaul
New features and new content
Hello everybody, and welcome to Bloomingstars.com!
This website is currently under partial reconstruction: the homepage is now powered by Pebble, an open source Java blog software which I've chosen as the new engine.
Stay tuned as more astronomy- and computing-related updates are added in the coming days!
This website is currently under partial reconstruction: the homepage is now powered by Pebble, an open source Java blog software which I've chosen as the new engine.
Stay tuned as more astronomy- and computing-related updates are added in the coming days!