jvdb

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   by jvdb 10y ago

   Only recently found out it isn't Duga 3 (as I also always thought it was), must be that wikipedia redirect. But I didn't mean to detract, that's really a very cool project that you did!
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   by jvdb 10y ago

   Awesome project! Nitpick; Duga 3 was never built. The one near Chernobyl is Duga 1.
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   by jvdb 12y ago

   This sounds really nice. I've been using apt as a deployment mechanism not unlike the use-cases describe. While the whole thing's been rock solid, the repo management could do with a cleaner interface. Looking forward to giving it
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   by jvdb 14y ago

   It's grokkable magic :) The Debian package format has nice functionality for deploying software such as the seed database, the script hooks and dependency checking via apt. Keep in mind it's also possible to run your own apt repositories an
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   by jvdb 15y ago

   (keep in mind, 2009)
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   by jvdb 15y ago

   For nice current images of the Sun, the Proba 2 satellite [1] continuously watches it and dumps some nice imagery/movies. It's ESA sponsored, and both it's sensors (SWAP producing the visuals) are interpreted by the Belgian Royal Observator
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   by jvdb 17y ago

   Depending on your motives, a fun alternative to the popular Arduino for getting into microcontrollers is just ordering the naked parts and wire them yourself on a breadboard, following Sparkfun's excellent tutorials ("Beginning Embedded Ele