Astronomy

Philips SPC900 Mods

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A collection of some of the main pages describing the long exposure and amp mods for the SPC900 webcam. http://home.zonnet.nl/m.m.j.meijer/D_I_Y/spc900nc.htm http://www.yesyes.info/index.php/diy/philips-spc900-webcam-lx-and-ampoff-mod/ http://stargazerslounge.com/astro-lounge/114129-pictures-taken-during-some-lx-mono-mods.html http://www.boltonastro.org.uk/Members%5FArea/Projects/spc880conversion.pdf Now just to read through them all, order the bits I need, and do the mod. Simples.  

computing, Solaris

Python : generating unittests on the fly

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When creating python unit tests you need to create a method in a unittest class. The problem however is when you don’t know until the code is running what these tests will be. In my particular case I need to run a series of tests against a number of Solaris packages. But I won’t know

computing

UK Windows Keyboard on a Mac Book Pro

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It started well. I just plugged in the keyboard and it appeared to work. Until I tried typing an email and the ‘to’ line came out with a ” instead of an @. Aha! Simple – just change the keyboard layout. That’s a lot easier said than done in OSX Lion. For a start there

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